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mouth oblique ; maxilla reaches to below middle of orbit. Neither 

 scales, row of warts, nor barbels on the head. Teeth last of 

 outer row in lower jaw is slightly recurved, but can scarcely be 

 considered a canine. Fins dorsal spines having filamentous 

 terminations, the fin* is at least as high as the body, and 3 higher 

 than the second. Pectoral as long as the head. Caudal rounded. 

 Scales strongly ctenoid. Colour chestnut, with three rather 

 wide, pale, black-edged, transverse interorbital bands ; between the 

 eye and dorsal fin are three more bands which cross the back, and 

 four or five more descend from below the commencement of the 

 second dorsal fin to 3 down the sides. Three bauds descend from 

 the eye, another over the opercle, and one in front of the pectoral 

 fin. Both dorsal fins with brown spots. 



ffab. Eed Sea to the Audamans. I obtained two small specimens 

 at the Andamans. 



1053. (35.) Gobius magnilociuiis. 



Gobius magniloquus, Day, Fish. India, p. 296. 

 D. 611/8. P. 17. V. 1/5. A. 9. C. 13. L. 1. 38. L. tr. 10. 



Length of head 4|, of caudal fin 5^, height of body 6| in the 

 total length. Eyes diameter 3| in length of head, | diam. from 

 end of snout, and f apart. Greatest width of head equals half its 

 length ; its height equals its length behind the eyes. Snout slightly 

 depressed. Cleft of mouth rather oblique, lower jaw the longer ; 

 the maxilla reaches to below the hind edge of the eye. Teeth outer 

 row enlarged, but without canines, two or three posterior canines 

 in the middle line above the symphysis of the lower jaw. Fins 

 dorsal spines with filamentous terminations, if as high as the body ; 

 an interspace of five scales between bases of two dorsal fins ; last 

 dorsal rays are two thirds height of body and reach halfway to 

 base of caudal. Pectoral as long as the head behind the eyes. 

 Caudal wedge-shaped. Scales ctenoid, extending forwards to 

 opposite hind edge of eyes, where there is a large one (as in an 

 Ophiocephalus) ; 15 rows between it and base of first dorsal scarcely 

 smaller than those on body. Opercles scaled. Colour light 

 brown, covered with fine black dots and spots on the scales ; a dark 

 band from eye across opercles ; a dark spot on upper edge of base of 

 pectoral. Dorsal and caudal spotted in rows. 



Hob. Madras; growing to 1| inches in length. 



1054. (36.) Gobius planiceps. 



Gobius planiceps, Day, Fish. India, p. 296. 



D. 6 | 1/8. P. 17. V. 1/5. A. 9. C. 13. L. 1. 38. L. tr. 10. 

 Length of head 4^, of caudal fin 4|, height of body 4| in the 

 total length. Eyes diameter 3| in length of head, f diam. from 

 end of snout, and 1 1 apart. Head broad and flattened superiorly, its 

 greatest width equalling its length behind middle of eyes, its height 

 rather less. Cleft of mouth oblique; maxilla extends to below 



