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anal, ventrals and pectorals whitish hemi-transparent. Iris golden, 

 more or less spotted with hlack. 



D 6—1/8, C 17f, A 1/7, V 1/5, P 15, Br. VI. 



Habit. — Freshwater Pinang. 



Freshwater Seychelle Islands, New Ireland. 



Total length : 5f inch. 



The pore a little above the posterior nostril, and that immediately 

 behind the orbit are indistinct in the two young individuals examined ; 

 the uppermost of the four pores on the posterior ascending margin of 

 the preopercle is distinct, the other three less so, confluent, forming a 

 short sulcus. 



Eleotris ophiocephalus, Kuhl and Van Hasselt. 



Eleotris ophiocephalus, Cuv. and Val. XII. 239. 



Head and back pale brownish black on a golden ground ; sides with 

 six parallel longitudinal brown lines ; abdomen buff, minutely dotted 

 with brown ; dorsals brownish ; the posterior and the caudal with 

 indistinct transversal series of brownish spots, and with whitish mar- 

 gins ; anal, ventrals and pectorals hemi-transparent, minutely dotted 

 with brown. Iris golden blackish. 



D 6—1/8, C 17f, A 1/7, V 1/5, P 15, Br. VI. 



Habit. — Sea of Pinang. 

 Java. 



Total length : 5| inch. 



From E. porocephala the present species principally differs in its co- 

 lours : the head appears a little more elongated, the scales of the crown 

 somewhat larger, and the inferior margin of the preopercle has but a 

 single rather indistinct pore, near the angle of the mouth. It appears 

 to be of rare occurrence at Pinang. 



Eleotris butis, (Buchan. Ham.) 



Cheilodipterus butis, Buchan. Ham. 57,367. 



(Icon.) Cheilodipterus butis, Gray. 111. Ind. Zool. II. PI. 93, 



Fig. 3 



Eleotris humeralis, Cuv. and Val. XII. 246. 



Eleotris humeralis, Bleeker : Verhand. Batav. Gen. XXII. 22, 5. 



Reddish brown with dark central spots on some of the scales of the 

 head and sides, and the latter with numerous vermilion spots ; the 

 two dorsals brownish at the base, transparent in the middle with 



