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the abdomen) ; the whole body, pectorals and caudal with numerous 

 verdigris spots ; anterior dorsal pale brownish lilac with violet spots, 

 the upper margin between the first four rays whitish ; second dorsal 

 brownish, whitish towards the base, between the rays two or three 

 transversal violet bands edged with white, forming irregular transversal 

 series ; caudal with blackish rays ; anal and ventrals whitish ; pectoral 

 membrane blackish. Eyes black, strongly iridescent. 



D 5—1/24 to 26, C 16, A 1/25, V 1/5, P 19, Br. V. 



Habit. — Estuaries and Sea of Pinang, Malayan Peninsula. 



Madura, Borneo, Java, Sea of China and Japan, Moluccas, 



Bengal, Coromandel, Malabar. 



Total length : 5 inch. 



At Pinang the species is very numerous in the same localities as 

 Periophthalmus schlosseri. 



Boleophthalmus pectinirostris, (Linne.) 



Gobius pectinirostris, Linne: Chinens. Lagerstr. — Amoen. Acad. 



Dec. 1754. 



Apocryptes chinenses, Osbeck : It. 130. — Amoen. Acad. IV. PI. 3, 



Fig. 3. 



Gobius pectinirostris, Linne: Syst. 1200. 



Gobius pectinirostris, Lacep. II. 542. 



Gobius pectinirostris, Shaw IV. 245. 



Apocryptes pectinirostris, Cuv. and Val. XII. 150. 



Boleophthalmus pectinirostris, Richardson Report 1845, 208. 



Head and back greyish green, lighter on the sides ; abdomen whitish ; 

 the whole body with minute blackish tubercles, and with metallic sky- 

 blue or verdigris spots ; muzzle, lips, throat and posterior margin of 

 the opercle pale greenish black ; anterior dorsal greenish black with 

 numerous vertically placed lilac spots ; posterior dorsal greenish black 

 with 6 or 7 transversal series of elongated lilac, black-edged spots, 

 which between the 8 posterior rays become larger, but rarer ; caudal 

 brownish black with transversal series of indistinct lilac spots ; anal, 

 ventral and pectoral fins brownish ; the base of ventrals greenish black, 

 the anterior scaly part of the pectorals with a blackish crescent-shaped 

 margin. Iris narrow golden ; pupil strongly iridescent. 



D 5—1/25, C 16f, A 1/25, V 1/5, P 20, Br. V. 



7 M 



