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3. A. chloroechis, Schleg.,=A. polylepis, Ptrs. With 31-36 series of scales and with a double row of suboculars.

4. A. ceratophora, Werner.

One young specimen from Glass, Gaboon estuary.

This specimen, as well as an adult in the British Museum, has no vomerine teeth, whilst two short groups are present in the second of the British Museum specimens, which is intermediate in size between the two former.

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Gobius æneofuscus, Peters, MB. Berl. Akad. 1852, p. 681, and Reise. n. Mossamb., Flussf. p. 18, Taf. iii, fig. 1; Günth, Fish, iii. p. 61.

Gobius æneofuscus, var. guineensis, Peters, MB. Berlin. Akad. 1876, p. 248.

Gobius tajasica, Steind. Not. Leyd, Mus. xvi. p. 25 (not synom.).

A Goby which seems to be very common in the freshwaters of Liberia and the Cameroon River, and is abundant in the Ogowé River, where numerous examples were obtained by Miss Kingsley at Kondo-Kondo, is identical with the species discovered by Peters in the Zambeze, but not, as Dr. Steindachner thinks, with the West-Indian G. banana, which has considerably smaller scales on the tail. G. æneofuscus, therefore, belongs to the freshwater fauna of Tropical Africa extending right across the continent.

Gobius lateristriga, A. Dum. Arch. Mus. x. p. 247, pl. xxi. fig 1, if not identical with this species, is, at any rate, closely allied to it; unfortunately the author has omitted to describe the scales, dentition, and other important characters.

Common on the West Coast, and attracting the notice of every traveller by its semiterrestrial habits and by the astonishing rapidity with which it leaps, frog-like, over the mud-flats of the littoral.

Island of Corisco (Steindachner, SB. Wien. Akad. 1869, lx. P. 945).