508 REVIEW OF NORTH AMERICAN GOBIID^. 



45. Gobiosoma ceuthoecum. 



Gobiosoma ceuthoecum Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884,29 (Key 

 West) ; Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 141 (Key West) ; Jordan, 

 Catalogue Fish. North America, 106, 1885 (name only). 



Habitat. — West Indian fauna ; Key West. 



The single known specimen of this species was taken by Dr. Jordan 

 from the cavity of a sponge at Key West. It has no intimate relation 

 to the other species of the genus. 



46. Gobiosoma histrio. 



Gobiosoma Aisirio Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 260 (Guaymas, Mexico) ; 

 Jordan, Catalogue Fishes North America, 106, 1885 (name only). 



Habitat. — Gulf of California. 



The single known specimen of this species was sent to the U. S. Na- 

 tional Museum from Guaymas, by Mr. H. V. Bmeric. The species is 

 closely related to the Gobiosoma molestum of the Gulf coast, differing 

 chiefly in the more pronounced coloration. 



47. Gobiosoma molestum. 



Gobiosoma molestum Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1858, 169 (Indianola, 

 Tex.) ; Girard, U. S. & Mex. Bound. Survey, 27, plate 12, fig. 14, 1859, 

 (ludianola, Tex.); GUnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., iii, 556, 1861 (copied); 

 Putnam, Amer. Nat. (Ohio R., near Louisville) ; Jordan, Man. Vert., Ed. 

 1, 1876, 246, Ed. 2-4, p. 257 (copied) ; Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. North 

 America, 638, 1883 (copied). 



Gobiosoma alepidotum Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 297 (La- 

 guna Grande, at Pensacola). 



Gobiosoma bosci Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 141 (Key West). 



Habitat. — Gulf coast of United States. 



This species seems to differ from G. bosci only in the less elongate 

 form. A full series of specimens will doubtless show intergradations 

 in this respect, and at the most G. molestum is probably only a south- 

 ern representative or variety of Gobiosoma bosci. It is common in shal- 

 low waters along the coast from Key West to Texas. Professor Put- 

 nam's statement of its occurrence in the Ohio River is probably an error. 



48. Gobiosoma bosci. 



Gobius bosci Lae^pede, Poissons, ii, 555, 1798, plate 16, fig. 1 (Charleston). 



Gobiosoma bosci Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas., 1882, 613 (Charleston, 

 S. C.) ; Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 324 (Indian River, Fla.) ; Jor- 

 dan, Catalogue Fish. North America, 106, 1885 (name only) ; Jenkins, 

 Johns Hopkins Univ. Circular No. 43, 1885, 11 (Beaufort, N. C.) ; Jordan, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1886, 28 (Beaufort, N. C). 



Gobius alepidotus Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 547, 1801 (after Lac^p^de); 

 DeKay, Nat. Hist., New York, 160, plate xxiii, fig. 70, 1842 (New York) ; 

 Uhler & Lugger, Fishes of Maryland, 84, 1876 (Siuepuxent Bay). 



Gobiosoma alepidotum Gill, Cat. Fish. East Coast North America, 44, 1861; 

 Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1863, 269 (no specimen) ; GUnther, Cat. 

 Fish. Brit. Mus., iii, 85, 1861 (copied); Gill, Cat. Fish. East Coast North 

 America, 21, 1873 (no specimen) ; Good'e, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 110 

 (east coast Florida) ; Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1880, 22 (St. John's 

 River, Fla.); Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. North America, 638, 1883. 



Gobius viridipallidus Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc.,New York, i, 379, 

 plate 1, fig. 8, 1814 (New York). 



