SUPPLEMENT, 1888. 
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Fins — dorsal spines tlim, flexible and equal in height to the body below them, second 
dorsal and anal of similar height and one-third lower than the first dorsal. Pectoral 
nearly as long- as the head. Caudal rounded with its central rays somewhat the longest. 
Scales — ctenoid in the posterior portion of the body, where they are larger than in the 
anterior portion, and small on the surface of the head : none on the cheeks. Colours — 
whitish with five wide and light chestnut bands descending from the back, each of which 
has a black outer edge : another over tbe nape is without dark edges. Caudal fin brown, 
with a broad yellowish black-bordered vertical band down its centre. A dark horizontal 
band running along the cheeks below the eye. Dorsal fins light brown with white outer 
edges, a large black white-edged blotch in the posterior half of the first dorsal fin, and a 
second but smaller one at the termination of the second dorsal, which last fin is white at 
its base. 
Habitat. — Madras. A skin from Sir W. Elliot’s collection is 3-2 inches in length, but 
it is in a bad condition. A coloured drawing was made when the fish was fresh. 
Page 312. Eleotris poeocephales. Add synonyms. 
Fleotris ophioceplialus, Cuv. and Val. xii, p. 239 ; Giinther, Eische Siidsee, ii, p. 185, 
t. cxii, f. A. 
Fleotris viridis, Sleeker, Madura, p. 22. 
Opliiocara opliiocepJiala, Sleeker, Eleotriformes, 1874, p. 15. 
Page 312. Eor Eleotris ophiocephales read E. temierons. Add synonyms. 
Fleotris Umiifrons, Cuv. and Yal. xii, p. 241. 
Opliiocara lioedtii {young), tolsoni {young), and aporos. Sleeker, Eleotriformes, 1875, pp. 33,35. 
Fleotris macrolepidoUis, Gunther, Eische, Siidsee, ii, p. 186 (not Sloch). 
Fleotris macrocephalus, Gunther, 1. c. t. cxii, f. S. 
Page 323. Add 
Family — TRICHONOTIDA], Giinther. 
Branchiostegals seven : pseudobranchiae. Gill-openings wide. Body elongated, sub-cylindrical. The 
infraorbital ring of bones does not articulate with the preopercle. Teeth mostly villiform. One or two dorsal 
fins occupying almost the entire length of the back, when there are two, the first is short and the anal 
similar to the second dorsal. Fin rays branched. Ventrals jugular with one spine and five rays. No 
prominent papilla near the vent. Scales cycloid of moderate size. Air-bladder and pyloric appendages 
absent. 
The fishes of this family have been variously located. A species of HEMEROCfflTES was 
placed by Eorster and also by Schneider among the Gallionymidce, and near which Cuv. 
and Val. considered it should be located. Dr. Gunther (Catal. Eishes Brit. Museum, 
ii, p. 225) observed that it is not an Acanthopterygian fish, all its fin rays being 
articulated.” Subsequently he remarked (1. c. hi, 1861, p. 484), that the affinities of these 
fishes are very obscure, and instituted an Acanthopterygian family for their reception, 
observing that the ventral fin had one spine and five rays, he placed it between the 
Ophiocephalidm and Cepolidse, and in 1880 he located it among the Acanthopterygii 
Blenniiformes. Steindachner, in 1867, suggested that a species he described might 
possibly be a type of labroids, but the example was too small to examine the pharyngeal 
bones. 
Geographical distribution. — Small fishes of the seas and coasts of India, and the Malay 
Archipelago to New Zealand. 
Genus Y. — Trichonotes, FI. Sclin. 
Head depressed, and pointed, with the lower jaw the longer. Cleft of mouth deep, almost 
horizontal, the loiver jaio the longer. Fyes of moderate size, closely approximating. Conical 
teeth in jaws, vomer, and palatine bones. One long dorsal fin, the first few rays may be 
elongated, or else slightly detached. 
Habitat. — Andamans to the Malay Archipelago. 
1. Trichonotes setigeres. 
Bl. Schn. p. 179, t. xxxix ; Cuv. and Yal. xii, p. 316; Bleeker, Celebes, v, p. 251; 
Gunther, Catal. iv, p. 484. 
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