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Valenciennea muralis, Bleeker, Boeroe, p. 412, and Eleotrifonnes, 1874, p. 6. 

 Eleotrioicles muralis, Bleeker, Goram. p. 212. 



B. v, D. 6 | tV, P. 19, V. 1/5, A. T V, C. 13, L. 1. ca. 100. 



Length of head 4J, of caudal 4i, height of body 6f in the total length. Eyes — diameter 1 /5 of length of 

 head, 1-J- diameters from end of snout, and 1 apart. Greatest width of head equals its height or its length 

 behind the middle of the eyes. Cleft of mouth oblique, commencing anteriorly opposite the middle of the eye : 

 the maxilla reaches to below the front edge of the orbit. Teeth — a single row of pointed, rather curved, and 

 large teeth in the preruaxillaries : villiform in the lower jaw, with anteriorly an outer row of curved teeth ending 

 laterally in one or two canines. Fins — dorsal spines with filamentous terminations, the third being half higher 

 than the body : the last dorsal ray as high as the body. Pectoral nearly as long as the head : ventral reaches 

 half way to the anal. Caudal pointed. Scales — none on the head, those on the body ctenoid, about 30 rows 

 between the anterior portion of the bases of the second dorsal and anal fins. Colours — two or three longi- 

 tudinal red bands along the upper half of the body, and which may be broken up into spots, sometimes there 

 are also a few vertical red bands crossing the horizontal rows at right angles : three or four red bands on the 

 head, those on the opercle being tortuous. Several rows of red spots on the first dorsal fin forming bands, and 

 a black blotch at its summit between the third and fourth spines. Two or three red lines along the second 

 dorsal, and one along the anal fin : caudal with red spots. 



Amongst Sir Walter Elliot's collection of drawings is a coloured one of the fish captured inside a Mwcena, 

 at Madras, and referred to by Jerdon in the M. J. L. and Sc. 1851, p. 143, it may perhaps be the species 

 described above. Dr. Giinther identified one of Sir Emerson Tennent's drawings of Ceylon Fishes with 

 E. muralis, therefore it would appear to be found off that island. Bleeker places E. lineato-oculatas, Kner, as a 

 synonym of this species. 



Habitat. — Seas of India to the Malay Archipelago. 



3. Eleotris sesguttata. 



Cuv. and Val. xii, p. 254 ; Bleeker, Blen. en Gob. p. 253, and Sumatra, p. 52 ; (Jerdon, M. J. L. and Sc. 

 1851, p. 143 not synon.) ; Giinther, Catal. p. 130. 



Valenciennea sexguttata, Bleeker, Boeroe, p. 412, Arou, 1873, p. 2, and Eleotriformes, 1874, p. 6. 

 Eleotriodes sexguttata, Bleeker, Goram. p. 212. 



B. iv-v, D. 6 | T V, P. 21, V. 1/5, A. &, L. 1. 75-80. 



Height of body 7 to 8 in the total length. Eyes — not one diameter apart. Jaws of equal length 

 anteriorly. Teeth — in a single row of unequal size. Fins— dorsal spines, from the second to the fourth inclusive, 

 produced into filaments. Colours — greenish, shot with rosy : blue spots, with dark edges on the side of the 

 head : occasionally a violet spot before the dorsal fin, which latter has a black superior margin : second dorsal 

 with six longitudinal violet stripes, anal with two : caudal with pearl-coloured ocelli edged with violet. 



Jerdon's fish can hardly be identical with Cuv. and Val. The figure amongst Sir W. Elliot's drawings 

 represents a fish with D. 6/11. Body gray, with six vertical bands, six black spots at the base of the caudal fin 

 and a large black yellow-edged ocellus at the base of the pectoral. First dorsal white in its lower 1/3, black in 

 its upper two-thirds : second dorsal white along its base, gray in its outer three-fourths. Caudal with a white 

 tip. First dorsal about 1/2 the height of the second, which equals that of the body. It is marked "Eleotris 

 6 guttata ? C.V. ? Natsooli Tamil. Butis." It appears similar to E. Amboinensis. 



Habitat. — Ceylon to the Malay Archipelago. 



4. Eleotris feliceps. 

 Blyth, J. A. S. of Beng. 1860, p. 146 ; Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 517. 

 B. v, D. 6 | ■&, P. 15, V. 1/5, A. 11, C. 13, L. 1. 27, L. tr. 12. 



Length of head 1/4, of caudal 1/5, height of body 1/5 of the total length. Eyes — close together, 1 diameter 

 from end of snout. Head slightly depressed, snout pointed. Lower jaw the longer. Cleft of mouth short, the 

 maxilla only extends half way to below the orbit : no preopercular spine. Teeth — villiform. Fins — dorsal 

 spines filiform : central caudal rays the longest. Scales — cycloid as far as the base of the anal fin, where they 

 become strongly ctenoid : anteriorly they reach to the posterior margin of the orbit, and also cover the cheeks 

 and opercles : twelve rows between the bases of the second dorsal and anal fins. Colours — brownish-white, 

 irregularly spotted and blotched with a darker colour : dark bands pass downwards from the orbit : fins more 

 or less spotted. 



Habitat. — Andamans, from whence the Calcutta Museum received one specimen I! inches in length. 



5. Eleotris macrodon, Plate LXV, fig. 3. 

 Bleeker, Beng. en Hind. p. 104, t. 2, f. 1 ; Giinther, Catal. hi, p. 129. 

 Odonteleotris macrodon, Gill, Bleeker, Eleotriformes, 1874, p. 14. 

 B. v, D. 6 | i P. 17, V. 1/5, A. |, C. 13, L. 1. 120, L. tr. 30. 



Length of head 4|-, of caudal 6, height of body 6 in the total length. Eyes — diameter 6i- in length of 

 head, li diameters from end of snout, and 2 apart. Upper surface of head flattened, snout slightly elevated. 



