238 ORDER ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



Piedmont, smaller than the niger, blackish, without 

 the free pectoral filaments, and a black spot above the 

 branchial aperture. A large one is obtained in the 

 environs of Bologna, the G. lota, Cuv. ; brown, 

 blackish veins on the cheek ; a little blackish spot on 

 the base of the pectoral, and another on each side of 

 that of the caudal. 



Among the gobies foreign to Europe, we may ob- 

 serve the G. macrocephalus, Coitus, macroceph., Pall. 

 Nov. Act. Petrop. I. pi. x. f. 4, 5, 6, on account of 

 the extreme length of its head, and the G. lanceolatus, 

 Bl. 33. 1 ; G. bato., Buch. pi. xxxvii. f. 10 ; Eleotris 

 lanceolata, BL, Schn. pi. xv., which we call the gobius 

 elongatus, on account of their elongated form and 

 pointed caudal \ 



Gobioides, Lacep., 



Only differ from the gobies in the union of their 

 dorsals, which form but one. Their body is more 

 elongated 2 . 



1 Among these species foreign to Europe, we may unhesitatingly 

 place the Gobius Phmiiern, Bl. 175. 3. G. lagocephalus, Pall. 

 VIII. pi. xi. f. 6, 7. G. Boddarti, id. ib. pi. i. f. 5. G. ocellaris, 

 Brouss. Dec. pi. xi. G. bosc. Lacep. II. xvi. 1. or G. viridi- 

 pallidus, Mitch, op. cit. i. 8. or G. alejndotus, Bl. Schn. G. Riis- 

 selii, Cuv., Russell i. 53. G. giuris, Buch. pi. xxxiii. f. 13. Rus. 

 1. 50. G. changua, Buch. pi. v. f. 10. The Bostryche Chinois, 

 Lacep. II. xiv., and many new species to be described in our Hist, 

 des Poissons. 



Gob. broussonet, Lacep. ii. pi. xvii. f. 1. Gob. oblongatus, 

 Schn., add 548. 



