1886.] PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL-'MUSEUM. 487 



18. Lophogobius cyprinoides. 



Gohius cyprinoides Pallas, " Spicilegia, Zool. viii, 17, tab. 1, fig. 5, 1770*" 

 (" Amboina") Cnvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. xii, 129, 1837 

 (copied) ; GUnther, Cat. Brit. Mus. iii, 8, 1861 (San Domingo, Jamaica). 



Lophogobius cyprinoides Poey, " Eepertorio i, 335, 1867; Poey, Syn. Pise. Cub. 

 393, 1868 (Cuba) ; Poey, Eunmeratio Pise. Cul)., 125, 1876 (Cuba) ; Jor- 

 dan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns., 1886,49 (Havana, Cuba). 



Gohius cristagaUi Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xii, 130, 1837 

 (Havana); Guichenot "Poiss. in Ramon de la Sagra, Hist. Cuba, 128, 

 plate 3, fig. 3" (Cuba). 



Habitat. — West Indian Fauna. 



This remarkable little fish is rather common in the markets of Ha- 

 vana, in which locality our specimens were taken. We have also seen 

 specimens from Aspinwall. GiJnther is doubtless correct in identify- 

 ing the cristagaUi of Cuvier & Valenciennes with the cyprinoides of 

 Pallas. 



12. GOBIUS. 



GOBius Artedi, Genera 28, 1738 {Gohius ex nigricante varius, etc., =niger). 

 GoBius Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Ed. x, 1758 (riiger, etc.), and of authors generally. 

 GOBILEPTES Swainson, Nat. Hist. Classi. Fishes, ii, 18159, 183 (no type mentioned; 



lanceolalus doubtless intended). 

 GOBIOMELLUS Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1858, 168 (hastatu8 = oceanicu8). 

 Ctenogobius Gill. Fish., Trinidad, 374, 18.n8 (fasdatus). 

 EucTENOGOBius Gill, Annals Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, 1859,45 {hadius). 

 Smaragdus Poey, Meuiorias de Cuba, ii, 279, 1861 (smaragdus). 

 ?PoMATOSCHisTUS Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., 1863, 263, foot-note (minutus). 

 CORVPHOPTERUS Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 263 (glaucofrwnum) . 

 ? Deltentosteus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 263, foot-note (quadriviaou- 



latus). 

 fGOBiiCHTHYS Klunzinger, Fisch. Rothen Meeres, 479, 1871 (petersii). 

 Mesogobius Bleeker, Esquisse d'nn Syst. Nat. Gobioid., 317, 1874 (guavina). 

 Stexogobius Bleeker, 1. c. 317 {gymnopomus). 

 Oligolepis Bleeker, 1. c. 1^18 {melanosUgma). 

 Gnatholepis Bleeker, 1. c. 318 (aujerensis). 

 Callogobius Bleeker, 1. c. 318 {hasselti). 

 Hypogymxogobius Bleeker, 1. c. 318 (xanthozona). 

 ?Hemigobius Bleeker, 1. c. 318 (iri'daniirus). 

 ? Cephalogobius Bleeker, 1. c. 320 (suhlltus). 

 ?ACENTROGOBius Bleeker, 1. c. 321 (chlorostigma). 

 ?PoROGOBius Bleeker, 1. c. 321 (schlegeli). 

 ?Amblygobius Bleeker, 1. c. 322 (sphiitx). 

 ZOXOGOBIUS Bleeker, 1. c. 323 {semifusciattis). 

 ? Odoxtogobius Bleeker, 1. c. 323 (bynoensis). 

 Stigmatogobius Bleeker, 1. c. 323 {plenrostigma). 

 ? OxYURiCHTHYS Bleeker, 1. c. 324 (lielosso). 



Type Gohius niger Linnaeus. 



The genus Gohius, as here understood, comprises a very large number 

 of species more or less closely related to the European type of the genus 

 Gohius niger, and its American relative, Gohius soporator. An examina- 

 tion of skulls or skeletons of numerous European and American species 

 shows a remarkable uniformity in most respects. The general form and 



