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ZOOLOGY OF THE FAR EAST. 
origins ; iq or 20 predorsal scales ; snout 4 to 4^ in head measured from upper jaw 
tip ; eye 3 to 3^ ; maxillary 3I to 4 ; interorbital 3 to y^^. Head width if to 2 in its 
total length. Largely dull brown. Black opercular blotch distinct. Two examples, 
49 and 50 mm. 
In a note on this species by Fowler and Bean ' by slipping a line of type 
ahead the last line on p. 316 should follow as the second line on p. 317. 
TETRODONTIDAE. 
Spheroides ocellatus (Osbeck.) 
Head 3| ; depth contracted 3f ; D. V, 13 ; A. IV, 13 ; snout 2^ in head ; eye 
7* ; mouth width 3I ; interorbital 2 ; head width ij. One example, 122 mm. 
GOBIIDAE. 
Eleotris obscura Schlegel. 
Head 2| to 2f ; depth 4I to 5 ; D. VIII-I, 9, l ; A. I, 8, i or I, 7, i ; scales 38 or 
39 in median lateral series to caudal base and 4 to 6 more on latter ; 14 to 16 scales 
transversely ; 28 to 37 predorsal scales ; snout 3I to 4 in head ; eye 6 to 7 ; maxillar}^ 
2| to 2| ; interorbital 3^ to 4. 
Body elongate, depressed forward and trunk compressed. Caudal peduncle 
compressed, least depth to if in its length or 3 1 to 3f in total head length. 
Head width if to if its length. Snout broadly depressed, width f its length. 
Eye impinging on upper profile, centre at first f in total head length. Mouth large, 
lower jaw slightly protruded. Lips broad. Broad bands of strong, simple, conic teeth 
in jaws ; none on palate. Tongue truncate, entire and free in front. Maxillary rea- 
ches opposite eye. Front nostril in short tube about last fourth of snout ; hind one 
midway between front one and eye. Interorbital depressed, level, orbits little 
elevated each side. Gill rakers as 2 + 8 broad, short, asperous tubercles, greatty 
less than gill filaments, which if in eye. 
Cheek with 3 horizontal close-set small bead like papillae, all joining below front 
edge of eye to give up short preorbital projection and uppermost sending up branch 
close along hind eye edge, giving line posteriorly towards upper end of gill-opening 
with another line along inner orbital margin of interorbital forward to groove of 
upper lip ; cluster of small papillae each side of snout tip, another above nostril each 
side of premaxillary processes and third about and below front nostril ; row of 
papillae vertically close behind preopercle edge on opercle ; also along preoperclc 
groove another row extended forward over mandible, where another clo.sely parallel 
follows forward till each side of symphysis ; cluster behind symphysis each side on 
chin. 
Scales on body anteriorly small, becoming larger on caudal peduncle ; small 
scales on cheek and caudal base ; mandible, snout, lower surface of head, breast and 
middle of belly naked ; basal radiating striae 17 or 18 ; apical denticles, 41 -f 41 ; 
circuli moderate. 
1 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. LVIII, p. 316 (1920), 
