1. GOBIUS. 55 



head and nape of the neck with stripes of minute, brown warts, 

 those on the neck arranged in a "j^ like figure. Eeddish-brown, 

 marbled with brown ; sides of the head and vertical fins spotted 

 with vermilion. 



Mediterranean. (Coast of Scandinavia ?) 

 a. Adult. Dalmatia. 

 6. Adult. Sicily. Presented by W. Swarnson, Esq., as Gohius niyer. 



c. Adult. Sicily. Presented by W. Swainson, Esq., as Gobius lan- 



ceoJatiis. 



d, e. Young. 



Gohius gracilis, Fries, appears to be identical with G. cruentatus, 

 Gm., or at least very closely allied to it ; whilst G. gracilis, Jenyns, 

 perhaps, is founded on young specimens of G. minutus. 



107. Gobius genipoms. 

 Gobius geniporus, Cuv. Sf Vol. xii. p. 32. 



D.6|l. A.I. L.lat.53. 



The height of the body is contained seven times or seven times 

 and a half in the total length, the length of the head four times ; 

 the head is only half as high and broad as it is long. Tho eye oc- 

 cupies the second quarter of the length of the head ; the width of 

 the interorbital space equals one-half of the diameter of the eye. 

 The lower jaw projects a little. No silk-like pectoral rays ; ventral 

 fins without a basal membrane. The distance of the caudal from 

 the two other vertical fins is one-seventh of the length of the body. 

 Streaks of minute pores below the eye and on the neck ; foiu- or five 

 large pores along tho margin of the prasoperculum. Brownish, 

 marbled with darker ; fms blackish, dorsal and anal rays with white 

 tips ; rays of the caudal with broAvn spots ; head sometimes white- 

 spotted. (F«?.) 



Mediterranean. 



108. Gobius capito. 



? Gobius exanthematosus, Pall. Zooyr. iii. p. 160 ; Nordm. in Demid 



Vol/. Eitss. 3fend. iii. p. 423, Poiss. pi. 10. fig. 1. 

 Gobius capito, Cuv. 4- Val. xii. p. 21 ; Guichen. Exp. Alqer. Poiss 



p. 76. '^ 



? Gobius paganeUus, Cuv. Sf Val. xii. p. 20; Guichen. Exp. Alger 



Pom. p. 76; (not Z.)juv. ^ 



^- ^ I iFH- ^- 1^- L. lat. 60-65. Vert. 12/16. 

 Seventeen to twenty longitudinal series of scales between the 

 second dorsal and the anal fins. Head as broad as high. The height 

 of the body is contained five times and a half in the total length, 

 the length of the head four times and a half. The horizontal cha- 

 meter of the eye is one-fifth or one-sixth of the length of the head, 

 and not quite one-half of that of the snout. The interorbital space 

 is flat, scaly, and its width equals the vertical diameter of the orbit 



