26 GOBlIDJi. 



38. Gobins nebulo-punctatus. 



Gobiiis nebulo-punctatus, Cia: S,- Val. xii. p. 58 ; Peters in Wiegm. 

 Arch. 1855, p. 250. 



? Gobius nebulo-punctatus, Bleek. Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Nederl. iii., Sum- 

 atra, p. 40. 



Gobius i'uscus, Riipp. Atl. Fische, p. 137. 



D. 6 I i. A. 4-. L. lat. 35. 



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

 the length of the head foiu- times and two-thirds. The head is 

 nearly as broad as high, its height being more than one-half of its 

 length. The diameter of the eye is one- fourth of the length of the 

 head ; it is situated entii'ely in the anterior half of the head ; inter- 

 orbital space very narrow. Snout as long as the ej-e, with the cleft 

 of the mouth oblique, and -with the jaws equal in length. The teeth 

 in the jaws form a band, those of the outer series being somewhat 

 enlarged. Dorsal fins separated from each other, but close together ; 

 the first is lower than the second, the height of which equals that 

 of the body. The upper pectoral rays silk-like ; caudal rounded ; 

 the anal is much higher posteriorly than anteriorly, its height being 

 equal to that of the second dorsal fin. Greenish, clouded with 

 brownish ; head and body with longitudinal series of numerous white 

 dots ; fins uniform blackish, the first dorsal edged with white su- 

 periorly. 



Eed Sea ; Mozambique. ? Trussan (West Sumatra). 



Dr. Eiippell considers his 6. fuscus, the typical specimen of which is 

 lost, as identical ■with G. nehido-punctatus, Cut. & Yal, If Bleeker's 

 specimens really belong to the same species, they are immature, 

 with larger eyes and -svith shorter snout than in the adult fish. 



This fish, however, appears to be only a variety of G. cdhoinmc- 

 tutus. The following specimens may be considered as tj^pical, as they 

 are fi'om the original Collection of Prof. Ehrenberg. 



a-b. Eed Sea. From the Berlin Museum. 



39. Gobius soporator. 



Cnv. 8f Val. xii. p. 50; Gtiichen. Poiss. in Pamon de la Siu/ra, Hist. 

 Cuba, p. 127. 



D. 6|-. A. 4-. L. lat. 35-41. 



I 9 8 



Twelve longitudinal series of scales between the second dorsal and 

 the anal fins. Head rather broader than high ; the height of the body 

 is contained five times to foui- times and a half in the total length, the 

 length of the head four times. The snout is rather longer than the 

 diameter of the eye, which equals the width of the interorbital space. 

 Scales on the neck much smaller than those on the body. Dorsal 

 fins not very close together, lower than the body ; the distance of the 

 first dorsal from the eye equals that of the snout from the prseoper- 

 cuhim. The upper rays of the pectoral silk-like ; the ventral fin 



