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part of the pectorals and caudal black ; anal and ventrals whitish. 

 Iris black with a narrow internal golden ring ; eyes strongly iridescent. 



D 8—1/12, C 16f, A 1/12, V 1/5, P 17, Br V. 



Habit.— Estuaries of Pinang, Malayan Peninsula, Singapore. 

 Amboina, Sumatra, Java. 



Total length : 10J inch. 



Some individuals have on one or both sides of the symphysis of the 

 upper jaw a second, internal, short series of two or three small teeth. 

 At Pinang this species occurs in great numbers in the moat of Fort 

 Cornwallis, which is filled by each tide from the sea. Like the other 

 Gobies it is very wary and difficult to capture, but unlike most of the 

 others, it is very fierce when taken, and is capable of inflicting rather 

 severe wounds with the long hooked teeth. 



Gen. Boleophthalmus, Cuv. and Val. 1837. 

 Differs from Periophtkalmus in having all or the middle teeth 

 of the upper jaw straight and strong ; those of the lower jaw placed 

 horizontally, all very fine, except two stronger than the rest, recurvous, 

 and placed a little inwards ; head more oblong than Periophthalmus ; 

 scales small or imperceptible ; anterior dorsal fin with five rays ; the 

 base of the pectorals not in all species covered with scales. 

 Boleophthalmus boddaerti, (Pallas). 



Gobius boddaerti, Pallas, Spicil. Zool. VIII. 11, Tab. 2, Fig. 4, 5. 



Gobius boddaerti, Linne: Syst. 1201. 



Eleotris boddaerti, Bloch-Schn. 66. 



Gobius striatus, Bloch-Schn. 71, Tab. 16. (Female, Cuv. and Val.) 



Russell LIV. Nettee Kunla Mottah. 



Gobius boddaerti, Shaw IV. 238. 



Gobioides boddaerti, Cuv. R. A. II. 244 ( ! ). 



Boleophthalmus boddaerti, Cuv. and Val. XII. 199. 



Boleophthalmus boddaerti, Richardson, Report 1845, 208, 319. 



Boleophthalmus boddaerti, Tern, et Schl. Fauna Japon. 148, Tab. 



LXXVI. Fig. 3. 



Boleophthalmus boddaerti, Bleeker : Verh. Bat. Gen. XXII. 40, 5. 



Lips, upper part of the head and the back blackish green ; sides 

 greenish gamboge ; abdomen white ; the sides from the second dorsal 

 with 6 or 7 obliquely backwards directed blackish bands, (not reaching 



