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in skin ; caudal elongate and pointed. Pectoral not enveloped in 

 skin, half as long as the ventrals. Air-bladder large and oval. 

 Colour brownish olive above, reddish below. Pectoral and 

 ventral yellow, with their outer halves black. Vertical fins 

 blackish. 



Hob. Calcutta, Lower Bengal, and along the coasts of the Bay 

 of Bengal at least as low as Waltair ; also Burma, certainly as far 

 as Moulmein. 



1106. (6.) Gobioides rubicundus. 



Gobioides rubicundus, Ham. Buck. Fish. Ganges, pp. 37, 365, 

 pi. 5, fig. 9 ; Day, Fish. India, p. 319, pi. Ixvii, fig. (see synon.). 



D. 6 | 35-39. P. 30. V. 1/5. A. 33-36. C. 15. 



Length of head 7| to 8, of caudal fin 5 to 6, height of body 12 in 

 the total length. Eyes high up, in the front third of the head, 

 almost concealed. Greatest width of head equals half its length, 

 and its height equals its length behind the eyes. Barbels absent. 

 Teeth an outer row of about eight, long, curved, and pointed, in 

 the premaxillaries, and of about twelve similar ones in the lower 

 jaw; a pair of posterior canines above symphysis of lower jaw. 

 Fim dorsal and anal fins not enveloped in skin, the anal is often 

 only connected to the caudal by its base. Dorsal fin about | 

 height of body. Caudal lanceolate. Scales in the form of 

 crypts on the head, minute ones begin to appear on the body in its 

 last half, and become more distinct near the tail. Colour 

 greenish olive superiorly, becoming dull white below ; vertical fins 

 diaphanous ; caudal black. 



Hab. Seas of India and estuaries ; very common in the Hooghly 

 at Calcutta, where it attains at least 11 inches in length. 



1107. (7.) Gobioides tennis. 



? Amblyopus roseus, Cuv. ^- Vol. H. N. Poiss. xii, p. 164. 

 Gobioides tenuis, Day, Fish. India, p. 319, pi. Ixix, fig. 3. 



D. 6 | 33. P. 50. V. 1/5. A. 32. C. 17. 



Length of head 8, of caudal fin 4|, height of body 20| in the total 

 length. Eyes small but distinct, in the anterior third of the head. 

 Greatest width of head equals its height and nearly half its length. 

 Body very compressed. Lower jaw the longer, but not so 

 distinctly forming the front of the head as in the other species. 

 Some small barbels below symphysis of lower jaw. Teeth outer 

 row in each jaw containing about 12 curved canines, those in the 

 lower jaw longer ; two posterior canines above symphysis of lower 

 jaw. Fins vertical ones not enveloped in skin, the dorsal 

 continuous with the caudal, rather higher than the body. Caudal 

 lanceolate. Colour general tinge roseate ; fins colourless except 

 the caudal, which is dark with a light outer edge. 



Hab. Sind, where a specimen 7{ inches long was captured. 



