466 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



from Port Said. Originally described from Madeira, it has been 

 rarely recorded; and only once before from the Mediterranean by 

 Guichenot at Algiers. 



Family MULLID/E. 

 Genus MuLLUS Linneeus. 



17. Mullus barbatus Linnceus. 

 Seen, but no specimens were taken. 



Family SCI^NID^. 

 Genus Argyrosomus De la Pylaie {Pseiidosciana Bleeker). 



18. Argyrosomus aquila (Cuvier), 

 No. 8oi5a-J, C. M. Common. 



Genus Umbrina Cuvier. 



19. Umbrina cirrhosa (Linnaeus). 



No. 8016a, C. M. Only one specimen taken. 



Family GOBIID.'E. 

 Genus Gobius Linnaeus. 



20. Gobius niger Linnaeus. 



No. 8017, C. M. Not received (C H. Eigenmann). 



Light to dark brown, marbled with darker; lighter than a series 

 from Naples. Our identification is made in accordance with a recent 

 study of European gobies by Louis Fage.^ 



21. Gobius paganellus Gmelin. 

 No. 8018a, C. M. 



D. VI + L 12; A. I, 10; scales 54. Male nearly black; the low first 

 dorsal tipped with orange-white, the spines even. Our single specimen 

 agrees with descriptions of this species, and with our specimens from 

 Italy. All of these differ from the figure given by Holt and Byrne^ in 

 the extension of the pectoral beyond the ventrals. Louis Fage (/. c.) 

 also describes the pectorals as longer than the ventrals in G. paganellus. 



2 Arch. Z06I. Exp., I, 55, No. 2, Oct., 1915. 



5 The British and Irish Gobies, App. Ill to Pt. II of Report on the Sea and Island 

 Fisheries of Ireland for igoi, PI. I, figs, i, 2. 



