1172 Catalogue of Malayan Fishes, [Nov. 



Trypauchena vagina, (Bloch). 



Gobius vagina, Bloch-Schn. 73, No. 20. 



Gobioides ruber, Buchan. Ham., 38,365. 



Trypauchena vagina, Cuv. and Val. XII. 153, PI. 351. 



Trypauchena vagina, Swainson II. 279. 



Trypauchen vagina, Richardson, Report 1845, 206. 



Trypauchena vagina, Bleeker: Verh. Bat. Gen. XXII. 37, 5. 



Rose-coloured with light blue reflections, paler towards the abdomen 

 which is whitish ; eyes minute, barely perceptible, like two blackish 

 points ; fins transparent, colourless. 



D 6/47 to 49, C 17, A 1/49, Vl/5, P 17, Br. IV. 



Habit. — Sea of Pinang. 



Sea, estuaries and freshwater of Bengal, Coromandel, 

 Malabar, China Seas, Java, Madura, Balli. 



Total length : 8 inch. 



Not numerous at Pinang. 



Gen. Amblyopus, Cuv. and Val. 1837.* 

 (Psilosomus, Swainson, 1839). 



Body elongated ; ventrals like Gobius ; dorsal, caudal and anal fins 

 united ; mouth vertical ; in both jaws an external series of exposed, 

 curved, distant teeth, longer than the rest ; eyes very minute, hid by 

 the skin, scarcely perceptible ; no fossae on the side of the nape. 

 Amblyopus hermannianus, (Lacepede). 



Tsenioide hermannien, Lacepede, IV, 533. 

 Cepola hermanniana, Shaw, IV. 191. 

 Cepola caecula, Bloch-Schneider, 241, Tab. 54. 

 Gobioide rubicundus, Buchan. Ham., 37, 365, PI. V. Fig. 9. 

 Tsenioides, Cuv. R. A. II. 244. 



Amblyopus hermannianus, Cuv. and Val. XII. 159, PI. 350. 

 Psilosomus, Swainson, II. 183. 

 Amblyopus hermannianus, Swainson, II. 279. 

 Head and back brownish ochre ; sides brick-red, paler on the abdo- 

 men, fins reddish ochre, caudal in some blood coloured. 

 D 6/44, C 15, A 1/45, V 1/5, P 15, Br. V. 

 Buchanan Ham. : D 46, A 40, V 12. 



* Substituted for Tanioides, Lacepede 1800, the definition of which, M. Valen- 

 ciennes observes, is incorrect, and not complete. 



