1. GOBIUS. 55 



head and nape of the nock with stripes of minute bro\vn warts, 

 those on the neck arranged in a 'j^ liJvc figure, lieddish-brown, 

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

 with vermilion. 



Mediterranean. (Coast of Scandinavia ?) 



a. Adult. Dahnatia. 



b. Adult. Sicily. Presented by W. Swainson, Esq., as Gobius niyer. 



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



ceolatus. 



d. e. Young. 



Gobius g)-&cilis, Fries, appears to be identical with G. cruentatus, 

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

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



107. Gobius genipoms. 



Gobius geniporu.s, Cuv. Sf Val. xii. p. 32. 



D. 6 I i A. f^. L. lat. 53. 



The height of the body is contained seven times oi- 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 (piartcr 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-Kke 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 ; four or five 

 large pores along the margin of the pra^operculum. IJrowuish, 

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

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

 spotted. {Val.) 



Mediterranean. 



108. Gobius capito. 



? Gobius exanthematosus, Pall. Zoof/r. iii. p. IGO; Nordm. in Dcmid. 



Toy. Htm. Merid. iii. p. 42.% Poiss. pi. 10. fig. 1. 

 Gobius capito, Cu)\ i^- ImI. xii. p. 21 ; Gttichen. Exp. AUjer. Pains. 



p. 70. 

 ? Gobius paganellus, Cuv. ^- Val. xii. p. 20; Guichcn. Exp. ^llijer. 



Poiss. p. 70; (not L.) juv. 



D. 6 I ,-^. A. -i-- L. lat. 00-65. Vert. 12/10. 



I 13—14 10-11 ' 



Seventeen to twenty longitudinal scries of scales l)etwoen the 

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

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

 the length of the head four timi's and a half. The hoiizontal dia- 

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

 and not (|iitc one-half of that of the snout. The interorbital space 

 is fiat, scaly, and its width cvjuals tlie vertical diameter of the orbit 



