Fish of the Tale Sap. 
seem t6 be properly developed as yet, the cheeks and the inter-orbital space is naked 
and the scales on the head are not particularly enlarged. 
The species is found in the seas and estuaries of India and the Malay 
Archipelago. 
Family GOBIIDAE. 
Glossogobius circumspectus (Macleay). 
i88j. Crohiits n'rciiiiisf^etius, Macleay, /Voc. Liuu. Soc. N. .S. Wales VIII, ]). 267. 
iqic). (ilossojjobiiis circuiiispi'ctns, McCuUoch and Ogilby, Rcc. .\nstral. Miis. XII, p. 2,55. 
This species has hitherto been known from the fresh water of the Milne Bay, 
Papua. Dr. Annandale in his tour of the Far East obtained a specimen, which 
I refer to G. circumspectus, near the mouth of the Patalung River at Lampam. The 
species is cliaracterized by the possession of an elongated, filamentous second dorsal 
spine and by the fact that the branched rays of the second dorsal fin increase in 
length posteriorly. 
In my specimen the length of the head is contained 3 '6 times and the depth of 
the body 6 3 times in the total length without the caudal. The eyes are situated 
nearer to the snout than to the end of the operculum and are placed in the second 
third of the length of the head ; they are approximated dorsally and are not visible 
from below. The diameter of the eye is contained 5 2 times in the length of the 
head and 18 times in the length of the snout. The inter-orbital width is about two- 
fifths the diameter of the eye. The second dorsal spine is almost as long as the head 
and the last branched ray of the second dorsal is slightly longer than the longest ray 
of the anal and is equal to the length of the head without the snout ; it reaches the 
rudimentary basal rays of the caudal fin. The pectoral is shorter than the head and 
longer than the ventral. There are 31 scales along the lateral line and 9 complete 
series of longitudinal scales between the anterior dorsal and the anal rays. The 
colour of the s])ecimen in spirit is pale olivaceous marked with grey in places on the 
l^ack and the sides of the body. The dorsal and the caudal are spotted with grey. 
The anal is greyish in colour. 
M casiircmoits in miUimetrcs 
Total length without caudal 
IvCngth of head 
Depth of body 
Length of snout 
Diameter of eye 
Length of pectoral 
Length of ventral 
I02-0 
28-0 
1 6-0 
9'5 
5-3 
2I'() 
Glossogobius kokius (C.V.) 
iN4(j. C-ohius kokius. Cantor, Cat. Malayan Fish, in Jiuirn. .As. Soc. Beni^al. p. ii()2. 
i87f). Cohius kokius, Day, Fish. India. I. ]). 2()5. 
There is a single specimen of this species 77.5 mm. in length without the caudal 
in the collection. It was obtained by Dr. Annandale at Singgora in the outer lake. 
