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Show 516 SURGEON F. DAY ON INDIAN FISHES. [Nov. 11, CORVINA CUJA, Ham. Buch. Scieenoides asper, Blyth, J. A. S. of Bengal, 1860, p. 140. The typical specimens of Mr. Blyth's species are six in number, and up to 2 inches in length. They are the fry of a Corvina, and, it appears to me, of the C. cuja. OTOLITHUS RUBER, Schn. Otolithus submaculatus, Blyth, J. A. S. of Bengal, 1860, p. 141. The four specimens in the Calcutta Museum, up to 6| inches in length, and which are marked O. submaculatus, Blyth, belong to this species. BOLA PAMA, Ham. Buch. Scieenoides hardwickii, Blyth, J. A. S. of Bengal, 1860, p. 139. The three typical specimens are up to 2| inches in length, and appear to be the fry of the B. pama, H. B. GOBIUS GOBIODON, sp. nov. 13. 6||. P. 21. A. 10. C. 15. L. 1. 22. Length of head -i of length of body. Height of body i of total length. Eyes in anterior half of the head, | a diameter from end of snout, 1| diameter apart. Form of body similar to that of the genus Gobiodon. Anterior portion of head and lower jaw covered with warty tubercles. Anterior cleft of mouth very oblique ; the posterior extremity of the maxilla does not extend to under the anterior margin of the orbit. Gill-openings narrow, and only opposite the base of the pectoral fin. Teeth. Villiform in both jaws, with a posterior canine in the centre of the lower jaw. Fins. Ventrals united, not adherent to the abdomen. Caudal rounded; none of the rays produced, nor those of pectoral silklike. Scales ctenoid, extending anteriorly to opposite the middle of the first dorsal fin, and in a line between that situation and the base of the pectoral. Nine rows between the anterior portion of the base of the second dorsal and that of the anal fins. Colours. Brownish. Ventral fin blackish, with a reddish margin. Caudal reddish. Hab. Andamans or adjacent islands. Seven specimens, up to lj3^ inch long, in the Calcutta Museum. BOLEOPHTHALMUS INORNATUS, Blyth, J. A. S. of Bengal, 1860, p. 168, is the B. pectinirostris, Gmelin. PERIOPHTHALMUS SCINTILLANS, Blyth, J. A. S. of Bengal, is the Periophthalmus koelreuteri, Pallas. |