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GOBIID.E. 



head. Ventral with a broad basal membrane, terminating at a great 

 distance from vent. Caudal rounded, shorter than head. Caudal 

 peduncle 1| to If times as long as deep. Scales strongly ciliated, 

 61-70 in longitudinal series, 14-16 in transverse series between dorsal 

 and anal. Yellow, with small crimson or purplish-brown spots and 

 dots, some of which may form a regular lateral series, or be confluent 

 into cross-bars on the back, or form two oblique series or lines 

 directed forwards from the eye to the mouth ; dorsal and caudal spotted 

 with crimson or purplish brown ; pectoral sometimes with crimson 

 cross-bars. 



Total length 15-5 raillim. 



Fresh waters of West Africa, from Sierra Leone to Angola. — Types in 

 Berlin Museum. 



rig. 18. 



1-3. Ad. & hgr. 



4-5. Ad. 

 6-13. Hgr. & yg. 

 14-15. Yg. 

 16. Hgr. 

 17-20. Hgr. 



Hgr. & yg. 



Hgr. 



Ad. 



21-30 

 31-32 

 33-34 

 35-37 



Ad. & hgr. 



Gobius guineensis. 

 Chiloango. 



N. Sherbet district, Sierra 



Leone. 

 Tnno R., Gold Coast. 

 Agberi, Lower Niger. 

 Abo, 



Assay, „ 



Benito R., Spanish Guinea. 

 Kondo-Kondo, Ogowe. 

 Lambarene, ,, 



Chiloango Town. 

 Bengo R. at Quifangondo, 



Angola. 



X. W. Thomas, Esq. (P.). 



Dr. H. G. F. Spurrell (P.). 

 Dr. W. J. Ansorge (C). 



G. L. Bates, Esq. (C). 

 Miss Kingsley (G). 

 Dr. W. J. Ansorge (0.). 



12. GOBIUS SAMBERANENSIS. 



Bleek. Arch. Neerl. ii. 1867, p. 417, and Poiss. Madag. p. 57, pi. xix. fig. 2 



(1875) ; Sauv. Hist. Madag., Poiss. p. 355, pi. xxxix. fig. 5 (1891). 

 ?Gobius vergeri, Bleek. 11. cc. pp. 418, 58, pi. xix. fig. 1. 



Body cylindrical ; depth of body 5 to nearly 6 times in total length. 



