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SCANDINAVIAN FISHES. 



The Doubly-Spotted Goby is fairly common on the 

 west coast of Sweden — being called Bobiu/ ("Red- 

 belly") in Bohuslan, according to Malm — in the Sound 

 and on tlie rest of the Danish coast (Winther) and in 

 the south of the Baltic (Heincke and Benecke"). It 

 has been taken by the eminent naturalist, Dr. Kolmo- 

 din, at M5rbylanga on the coast of Smolaiidia, by 

 Baron G. C. Cederstrom on the coast of Gothland, 

 and by Mr. Wahlberg, Inspector of Fisheries, and Dr. 

 Soderlund in the island-belt of Stockholm; but up 

 to the present time it has not been ound in Finland 



or the Baltic Provinces of Russia''. On the coast of 

 Norway, according to Collett, its range extends at 

 least as far as Lat. 65° N. It lives on the coasts of 

 Great Britain and Ireland and on the west coast of 

 France, north of Gascony; but we have no certain 

 evidence of its occurrence farther south or in the Me- 

 diterranean. 



The Doubly-Spotted Goby is so small that it is 

 of no immediate econonucal value, but as supplying 

 food to our edible fishes, it is of some importance. 

 Its own food is composed of small crustaceans. 



(iOBIUS :\IICROPS. 



(SW. LEESTUBBEN <'). 

 Plate Xm, fig. 5. 



Characters essentially the same as those of the preceding/ species, but the longitudinal diameter of the ei/e in full- 

 grown specimens sometimes less than '/^ of the length of the head and at most 40 % of the distance between the 

 first ra/i of the first dois(d fin and fJiaf of tlie second. The boundari/ of the scaly covering of the body on the 

 dorsal side extending from the end of the first dorsal fin along the sides of its base and at a distinct distance 

 therefrom. Bays in the first dorsal fin not more than (>. Colour of the body lighter and less variegated than 

 in the preceding species, but ivitli more brownish {black) spots and transverse bands; among the black spots ar- 

 ranged in roirs on the first dorsal fin there sometimes appears a larger spot on the back part of the fin, with a 



marked., azure lustre. 



R. l>v. 5; U. (5)61-- — ; A. — ^— ; P. 17 1. 18; V. '' ; 

 ' '9—10 8 1. 9 



C. ,r+ 11 (13 1. 15) + .r. 



Syii. Gohiiis microps, Kr., Daniii. Fiske, vol. I, p. 416; Olsson, 

 Ofvers. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 1868, p. 475; Malm, ibid. 1870, 

 p. 844; Id., Forli. Skand. Naturf. Mode Kbhvii, 1873, p. 

 383, cett.; Winth., Naturh. Tidskr. Kbhvn, ser. 3, vol. IX, 



pp. 199, 200, cett.; vol. XI, p. 55; vol. XII, p. 17; Coll. 

 Forh. Vid. Sclsk. Christ. 1874, p. 168; ibid., Tillsegsh., p 

 56; N. Mag. Naturv. Christ., Bd. 29 (1884), p. 61; Malm 

 Gbgs, Boll. Fn., p. 426, tab. V, fig. 2; Hansson, Ofvers 

 Vet.-Akad. Forh. 1880, No. 4, p. 20; Lillj., .Sv., Nory 

 Fisle., vol. I, p. 602; Hansen, Zool. Dan., Fiske, p. 35 

 tab. VI, figg. 1 at 2. 



" Fische, Fisclierei etc. in Ost- mid Westprenssen, pp. 84 aud 201. 



'' Seidlitz, Fanna Ballica, pp. 29 and 121 (Arch. Naturh. Liv-, Ehst- und Kurlands, ser. 2, Bd. VIII, Lief. 1). 



■■ A. W. Malm, ). c. 



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