6. GOBIOSOJIA. 85 



1. Evorthodus breviceps. 

 Gill, I. c, 



D. 6 I ^. A. Jj. L. lat. 32. 



The height of the body nearly equals the length of the head, and 

 is one-fifth or one-sixth of the total; the diameter of the eye is 

 one-third or one-fourth of the length of the head ; caudal rounded, 

 one-fifth of the total length. The rajs of the first dorsal filiform. 

 Light brown, with iiregular blackish blotches ; dorsal fins with 

 series of brown dots. 



Erom a river in the Island of Trinidad. Surinam. 



One specimen, from Surinam, is in the Ley den Museum. 



6. GOBIOSOMA*. 



Gobiosoma, Girard in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1858, p. 169. 



Scales none. Body elongate, cyHndrical ; head not compressed. 

 Teeth small, villiform or cardifbrm. Two dorsal fins : the anterior 

 with six to eight (two) flexible spines, the posterior of greater extent 

 than the anterior. Anal similar to the soft dorsal in form and size, 

 terminating at some distance from the caudal. Ventral fins united 

 to a disk, which is not attached to the belly. Gill-opening vertical, 

 of moderate width, the gill-membrane being united to the isthmus. 



1. Gobiosoma alepidotum. 



Gobius alepidotus, Bl. Schn. p. 547 ; Dekay, New York Fauna, Fishes, 



p. 160. pi 23. fig. 70. 



boscii, Lacep. ii. p. 555. pi. 16. fig. 1 ; Cuv. 8f Vat. xii. p. 96. 



viridipaUidus, Mitch. Tra7is. Lit. ^ Phil. Soc. New York, i. p. 379. 



pi. 1. fig. 8. 

 GoDiosoma alepidotum, Girard, I. c. 



D.6|i. A.±. 



Body slender, with the caudal fin pointed ; eyes very close together; 

 cleft of the mouth small. Greenish-broA\Ti, with seven or eight paler 

 transverse bars ; fins dark brown ; caudal with two or three curved 

 bars. 



Coasts of North America between New York and Charleston. 



2. Gobiosoma diadematum. 



Gobius diadematus, Riq)j). Atl. Fische, p. 137, &iV. W.Fische, p. 138. 

 D. 6|13. A. 11. 

 Head rather depressed, rounded; body elongate; caudal fin 

 rounded; canine teeth none. Brownish-yellow, with an umber- 

 brown band from the crown of the head through the eye towards 

 the angle of the prajoperculum ; head with brown dots, back with 



* 1. Gobiosoma molestum, Girard, I.e. — Coast of Texas. - 



