1849.] Catalogue of Malayan Fishes, 1165 



small canines. The tongue is thin, narrow, crescent-shaped, and 

 smooth. The profile of the forehead rises obliquely towards the first 

 ray of the anterior dorsal, where the vertical diameter equals about £ 

 of the total length ; from thence the arched profile of the back and 

 abdomen gradually converge towards the last ray of the second dorsal 

 and anal fins, the vertical diameter between which equals -J of the total 

 length, and such it continues to the root of the caudal. The height 

 of the first ray of the anterior dorsal fin equals one half of the 

 greatest vertical diameter ; the second and third rays gradually 

 increase ; the fourth terminating in a filament, slightly exceeds the 

 greatest vertical diameter of the body ; but the sixth ray scarcely equals 

 half the height of the first. The second dorsal and the anal fin are 

 nearly opposite, on a backwards sloping level, their extent being some- 

 what less than \ of the total length. Their sixth, divided, rays, are the 

 longest and equal about one-sixth of the total length. Their first and 

 last rays are about i of the total length. The distance between the ante- 

 rior and second dorsal is about J of that between the latter and the 

 caudal fin. The latter is rounded, about \ of the total length. The 

 pectoral fins are rounded, nearly as long as the caudal, and with the 

 rays slightly filamentous. The ventrals are a little pointed, and 

 scarcely exceed one half the length of the pectorals. The scales are 

 generally very large, particularly on the crown of the head, and the 

 opercles finely ciliated, and striated ; their breadth double their length. 

 The longitudinal series, from the root of the pectorals to the caudal, 

 contains about 25 scales ; the sides behind the second dorsal and the 

 anal fins are covered by 5 vertical series. 



A few individuals were occasionally observed among the fishes taken 

 in the stakes off the coast of Pinang. This species is closely allied 

 to another from the estuaries near Calcutta: Gobius sadanundio, 

 Buchan. Ham. (Gangetic Fishes, 52,366) among whose duplicate 

 series of drawings there is a representation. In the number of 

 rays and the large size of the scales both agree, and the black 

 markings of the fins and the body are also nearly the same. But 

 G, sadanundio is of a strikingly more elongated shape, the third ray 

 of the anterior dorsal fin is the longest, and the fourth is shorter not 

 terminating in a filament. Gobius filosus, Cuv. and Val. (XII. 78) 

 appears also to be allied to the present species. 



