1. GOBITTS. 77 



none; the anterior teeth slightly enlarged. Scales of moderate 

 size. Caudal rounded; dorsal fins rather lower than the body. 

 Light brownish, indistinctly clouded with darker ; dorsal, ventral, 

 and anal fins greyish, pectoral and caudal yellow ; dorsal and cau- 

 dal dotted with brownish. (Schhy.) 

 Bay of Nagasaki. 



146. Gobius newberrii. 



Gobius newberrii, Girardin Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. riiilnd. 1850, p.1,% ; 



inBost. Journ. Nat. Hist. 1857, pi. 25. figs. 5-8 ; in U. S. Pacif. R.R. 



Exped. Fishes, p. 128. 

 Lepidogobius newberrii, Gill in Ann. Lye, Nat. Hist. New York, vii. 



1859, p. 14. 



D. 8 I 13. A. 12. 



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. Cleft of 

 the mouth oblique, with the jaws equal anteriorly. The diameter of 

 the eye is about one-fourth of the length of the head. Caudal 

 rounded ; dorsal fins rather lower than the body. Scales small. 

 Olivaceous, irregularly spotted with black ; caudal, and sometimes 

 the second dorsal, with blackish dots. (Gir.) 



Tomales Bay (California). 



147. Gobius hexanema. 



Chaeturichthys hexanema, Bleck. Verhand. Batav. Genootsch. xxv., 

 Japan, p. 43. fig. 5 ; Gill, Ami. Lye. Nat. Hist. Ncio York, 1859, p. 16. 



D. 8 I 17. A. 14-15. L. lat. 38-40. 



Mandibula with six short barbels. The height of the body is one- 

 eighth of the total length, the length of the head one-fifth. The 

 width of the interorbital .space is less than one-half of the diameter 

 of the eye, which is contained three times and a half in the length 

 of the head. The upper surface and the sides of the head scaly ; 

 the cleft of the mouth is oblique, and the maxillary reaches to below 

 the anterior half of the orbit. Teeth in bands, those of the outer series 

 being the strongest ; canine teeth none. Caudal fin subrhomboid. 

 Green, marbled with darker, and with a series of five brown spots 

 along the side; fins brownish- violet; the second dorsal with yellowish 

 dots. 



Sea of Nagasaki. Coast of Niphon. 



148. Gobius ommaturus. 

 Mtehards. Voy. Sulph. Fishes, p. 146. pi. 55. figs. 1-4 



D. 9 I 18-20. A. 15-18. L. lat. 70. 



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

 total length, the length of the head four times and one-third. Snout 

 somewhat produced ; the eyes are less than the diameter of the or])it 

 apart ; the upper jaw rather longer than the lower ; teetli ot the 



