10 GOBIID^E. 



higher than the anterior ; caudal rounded ; the ventrals do not reach 

 to the vent. Yellowish-brown, irregularly brown-spotted ; a brown 

 spot below the eye : the first dorsal yellowish, brown-spotted ; aU 

 the other fins black. {Norchn.) 

 Shores of Odessa. 



4. Gobius semilunaris. 



Heckel in Ann. Wien. Mns. 1840, ii. p. 152. tab. 8. f. 5, 6 ; Norchn. in 

 Demid. Voy. Rms. 3Ierid. iii. p. 438. 



D. 6 I 18. A. 14. L. lat. 34-37. 



The height of the body is contained six times in the total length, 

 the length of the head four times and a half. Snout of moderate 

 extent, conical, Avith the jaws equal anteriorly ; gape narrow, ex- 

 tending to below the nostrils. Eyes very close together, as long as 

 the snout. The dorsal fins are somewhat remote from each other ; 

 the second is as high as the body, and twice as high as the first : 

 caudal subtruncated : the ventrals extend on to the anus. YeUowish- 

 brown, spotted with darker ; a brownish band on the root of the 

 caudal fin. (Heel-.) 



Eiver Marizza (Eoumelia) ; Rivers of South llussia. 



5. Gobius melanio. 



Pall. Zoo(p: iii. p. 412 ; Nordm. in Demid. Voy. JRuss. 3Iend. iii. p. 412, 

 Poiss. pi. 11. f. 1. 



D. 6 I 15. A. 14. 



Scales of moderate size. The height of the body is contained four 

 times and two-thirds in the total length, the length of the head four 

 times and a quarter. The snout is obtuse, convex ; the cleft of the 

 mouth oblique ; eye of moderate size. Dorsal fins close together, 

 lower than the body : caudal rounded. Entii'ely black ; the vertical 

 fins yellow-edged. (Nordm.) 



Shores of Odessa. 



6. Gobius sulcatus. 



Gobius bothriocephalus, Eichw. Rtise uuf dem Kaspischen Meere, i. 



p. 279. 

 sulcatus, Eichw. Zool. Spec. iii. p. 75, and Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 



1838, p. 142. 



D. 6 I 16. A. 13. 



The height of the body is contained five times and a half in the 

 total leng-th, the length of the head three times and three-fourths ; 

 the head is broader than high ; a transverse groove between the 

 nostrils ; the width of the interorbital space equals the diameter of 

 the eye. The pectoral fin extends to the sixth ray of the posterior 

 dorsal, the ventral to the vent ; rays of the fins very thick. Yellow- 

 ish-brown, black-spotted ; a large black spot oh the first doreal. 

 {Eichw.) 



Caspian Sea. 



