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Show 1888.] MR. F. D A Y O N T H E FISHES OF INDIA. 261 length. Eyes: diameter 3J in the length of the head, 1 diameter from the end of the snout, and ^ of a diameter apart. The greatest width of the head equals its length excluding the snout. Cleft of mouth very slightly oblique ; lower jaw a little the longer ; the posterior extremity of the maxilla reaches to beneath the first third of the orbit. The greatest depth of the preorbital equals one third of the diameter of the eye. All the opercles entire ; a well-marked spine on the opercle, and another on the subopercle; no shoulder-spine. Teeth : two enlarged ones on either side above the symphysis of the lower jaw ; fine ones on the vomer. Fins : second dorsal spine the longest, equalling three fourths of the diameter of the eye. Pectoral nearly as long as the head. Ventral one fourth longer than the head, reaching the base of the seventh anal ray. Caudal slightly rounded. Colours : reddish brown, with five wide and dark vertical bands, extending from the back to the lower surface, these bands being darkest at their edges and disappearing about the middle of the body, where there are also some dark spots ; a brown ocellus at the upper part of the base of the caudal fin, which has some brown spots on it. Numerous brown spots on the snout aird upper surface of the head and cheeks, some on the upper edge of the eye, where there are two dark narrow bands. Ventrals white ; first dorsal fin nearly black between the spines; soft dorsal and anal with fine dots between the rays. Hub. Two small specimens from the Andaman Islands. GOBIUS LITTOREUS, Sp. nOV. B. v. D. 6/11. P. 15. V. 1/5. A. 10. C. 14. L. 1. 22. L. tr. 6. Length of head 4\, of caudal fin 4\, height of body 5\ in the total length. Eyes : diameter 3 in the length of the head, -L a diameter from the end of the snout, and placed close together. The greatest width of the head equals f- of its length, while its height equals its length excluding the snout. Anterior profile of the head somewhat obtuse ; cleft of mouth oblique, lower jaw slightly the longer; the posterior extremity of the maxilla reaches to beneath the first third of the eye. Preopercle spineless, and no warts on the head. Teeth in villiform rows, none enlarged. Fins : dorsal spines of moderate strength, the longest nearly half the length of the head ; pectoral as long as the head, some of its rays fine and silklike ; caudal pointed. Scales ctenoid, none on the head ; eleven rows between the occiput and front edge of the dorsal fin. Colours : yellowish, with a few dark spots on the body and a dark band from the eye to the snout, also a dark mark on the opercle. Upper half of eye black. Dorsal, anal, and caudal fins with a grey outer edging; ventrals white. Hab. A small species from Madras. ELEOTRIS MACROLEPIDOTA, Bloch. This fish is not Eleotris hoedtii of Bleeker, as stated in Giinther's PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1888, No. XIX. 19 |
