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vertical orange stripes ; two irregular bands of the same colour 

 pass along the body, breaking up into blotches, a row of spots 

 along the posterior third of the body, sometimes a black spot at 

 tip of opercle. The colours fade in spirit. 



Hob. Andamans and Nicobars, growing to 2| inches in length ; 

 also in the Malay Archipelago. 



1060. (2.) Gobiodon erythrospilns. 



Gobiodon erythrospilus, Sleeker, Archiv. Neerland. x. 1875, p. 122 ; 

 Day, Fish. India, p. 298 (see synon.). 



D. 6 | 1/10-11. P. 19. V. 1/5. A. 1/9. C. 15. 



Length of head 4| to 4|, height of body 3 to 3| in the total 

 length. Eyes diameter 3| in length of head, less than 1 diam. 

 from end of snout, and to f apart. Cleft of mouth slightly 

 oblique. Teeth two small posterior canines above symphysis of 

 lower jaw. Fins in some specimens the first dorsal spine is 

 somewhat produced, otherwise the two dorsal fins are of about the 

 same height or half of that of the body. Ventral reaches 3 of way 

 to the anal. Caudal rounded. Colour body brown, covered with 

 small black spots, fins blackish. Caudal sometimes with a white 

 base, or entirely white. 



Hob. Ceylon, Andamans, Nicobars, to the Malay Archipelago. 



1061. (3.) Gobiodon citrhms. (Fig. 91.) 



Gobius citrinus, R'upp. N. W., Fische, p. 139, t. xxxii, fig. 4. 

 Gobiodon citrinus, Day, Fish. India, p. 298, pi. Ixiv, fig. 2 (see 

 synon.). 



D. 6 | 1/10. P. 20. Y. 1/5. A. 1/8-9. C. 13. 



Length of head 4, height of body 3 to 3| in the total length. 

 Eyes diameter 3g in length of head, f diam. from end of snout 

 and also apart. Cleft of mouth slightly oblique. Teeth a 

 posterior enlarged row in lower jaw, the outermost of which are 



Fig. 91. Gobiodon ci 



trtnus. 



lateral recurved canines. Fins dorsals of about the same height, 

 and as long as head excluding snout ; rays of second dorsal and 

 anal almost reach base of caudal. Ventral reaches halfway to 

 anal. Colour yellow, a blue black-edged horizontal streak goes 



