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Show 1873.] FISHES FROM INDIA AND BURMA. 109 EuCTENOGOBIUS* CRISTATUS, Sp. 110V. D. 6/14. P. 21. V.J. A. 14. C. 14. L. I. 48. L. tr. 11. Length of head YT> °f caudal \, height of body ^ of the total length. Eyes rather superior, close together, with the interorbital space concave ; diameter \ length of head, 1 diameter from end of snout. Head and body compressed, the width of the former opposite the opercles equalling its length from the middle of the eye. No barbels or tentacles above the orbit; several very fine rows of warts on the cheeks ; a low black-stained crest extending from the nape to the base of the first dorsal fin. Cleft of mouth very oblique, extending to below the middle of the orbit. Teeth in a single, conical, and fixed row in the upper jaw, in two rather widely separated rows in the lower, the anterior horizontal; no canines. Inferior pharyngeal bones in close juxtaposition along the median line, the two having a T shape and a single row of teeth. Fins : all rays in the dorsal flexible and a little elongated; the rays in the second dorsal increase in length to the last; anal similar; caudal pointed and elongate; ventrals reach vent. Scales cycloid, none on the head or along the sides of the raised crest; 11 rows between the origin of the second dorsal and anal. Colours : olivaceous, a dark spot under the eye; a dark ocellus, surrounded by a brown edge, at the base of the pectoral fin ; numerous small black spots along the upper third of the body, and six or eight badly defined blotches along the side. Lower half of first dorsal reddish orange, with a narrow yellow longitudinal band above it, the upper half of the fin barred with black, an ill-defined violet-coloured ocellus on the last dorsal ray, which is edged with canary-yellow. Ventral and anal dark grey ; caudal yellowish red, spotted in its upper half. Females not so bright as the males, and dorsal spines a little shorter. Hab. Bombay. Numerous up to 5 inches. They were breeding in March. It is also found in Madras. APOCRYPTES MADURENSIS, ? Bleeker. D. 6/24. P. 19. V. i. A. 23. C. 12. L. 1. 53. Length of head f, of caudal \, height of body \ of the total length. Eyes, diameter A of length of head, 1 diameter from end of snout, and \ a diameter apart. Jaws rounded anteriorly, the cleft extending 1 diameter behind the orbit; width of head rather above | its length. Teeth twenty-five, bilobate ones on either side of the lower jaw, a pair of fine canines near the symphysis ; those in upper jaw conical, wider apart than those in the mandibles, but about the same number. Fins : caudal pointed ; pectoral pointed, as long as the head without the snout, and extending beyond the end of the ventral, which last has a well-developed basal membrane and reaches halfway to the origin of the anal. First dorsal spines rather filiform, the longest * This fish has cycloid scales ; however, as some Gobies have ctenoid and some cycloid ones, I have not considered this a reason against its being placed in this genus. In m y " Fishes of the Andaman Islands," Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870, p. 693, I erroneously wrote Euctenogobius andamanensis instead of Apocryptes andamanensis. |
