GOBILD^E. 291 



total length. Eyes high up, diameter 3| in length of head, 

 1 cliam. from end of snout. Height of head f of its length ; inter- 

 orbital space narrow. Cleft of mouth somewhat oblique; the 

 maxilla extends posteriorly to beneath the middle of the eye. 

 TcetJi rather large, a_ single row in upper jaw with two small 

 lateral canines ; two or three rows in middle of lower jaw, sepa- 

 rated from the single lateral row by two large recurved canines. 

 Fins dorsal spines thin, as high as body below them, second dorsal 

 and anal one third lower than first dorsal. Caudal rounded, with 

 its central rays somewhat the longest. Scales ctenoid in posterior 

 portion of the body, and larger than in the anterior portion, small 

 on surface of head; none on the cheeks. Colour whitish, with 

 five wide and light chestnut bands descending from the back, eacli 

 with a black outer edge ; another over the nape without dark 

 edges. Caudal tin brown, with a broad yellowish black-bordered 

 vertical band down its middle. A dark horizontal band running 

 along the cheeks below the eye. Dorsal fins light brown with 

 white edges, a large black white-edged blotch in posterior half of 

 first dorsal, and a second but smaller one at termination of second, 

 the latter white at its base. 



Hob. Madras. A skin from Sir W. Elliot's collection is 3'2 

 inches in length, but it is in bad condition. A coloured drawing 

 was made when the fish was fresh. 



1088. (5.) Eleotris sexguttata. 



Eleotris sexguttata, Cue. # Val. H. N. Poiss. xii, p. 254 ; Day, Fish. 

 India, p. 311 (see synou.). 



B. iv-v. D. 6 | 1/12. P. 21. V. 1/5. A. 1/12. L. 1. 75-80. 



Height of body 7 to 8 in the total length. Eyes not one 

 diameter apart. Teeth in a single row of unequal size. Fins 

 dorsal spines, from the second to the fourth inclusive, produced 

 into filaments. Colour greenish, shot with rosy ; blue spots with 

 dark edges on the sides of the head ; occasionally a violet spot 

 before the dorsal fin, which latter has a black upper margin ; 

 second dorsal with six longitudinal violet stripes, anal with two; 

 caudal with pearl-coloured ocelli edged with violet. 



Hub. Ceylon to the Malay Archipelago. 



1089. (3.) Eleotris feliceps. 



Eleotris feliceps, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxix, 1800, p. 140 ; Day, Fish. 

 India, p. 311 (see sjuon.). 



B.v. D.6 | 1/10. P. 15. V.l/5. A. 11. C.13. L. 1. 27. L.tr. 12. 

 Length of head 4, of caudal fin 5, height of body 5 in 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 halfway to below 



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