48S THE GOBIES. 



strulig Smurbult, or, two-rayed goby, Sw.), which may be 

 distinguished at once from any other species by the an- 

 terior dorsal fin with two rays only, and by the posterior 

 dorsal as well as the anal fin having twenty level rays. 

 Of this fish several specimens have been taken, in summer 

 as well as in winter, ofi" the west coast of Norway, in some 

 thirty fathoms water. When brought up (in a sort of 

 trawl-net), they were found cml)edded in the stalks of 

 Tang (Fiicus), or in the empty nests of the Chcetopterus 

 Norvegicus. Their length was 1^ to If inches, and from 

 appearance they were very young, full-grown specimens 

 not having as yet been captured. 



6. Gobius Stuvitzil, von Diiben & Koren (^Fem-stralig 

 Smorbidt, or, five-rayed goby, Sw.), is perhaps identical 

 with the White Goby {G. albus, Parn., Yarr.), though 

 M. Malm is of a different opinion. M. Stuvitz obtained 

 several of these fish near Bergen, in the month of Decem- 

 ber ; they were 1;^ to If inches in length, and, from their 

 l)odies being quite transparent, there was every reason to 

 believe that they were very young. Irregular rows of 

 dark spots were noticeable on the bodies of this, as well 

 as the last-mentioned species. 



7. Gobius albus, Parnell, Yarrell, has been found by 

 M. Malm, he says, in the Bohus Skargard. 



8. Gobius pictus. Malm. Of this fish specimens 

 have been taken, in 1852 and 1801, on both occasions 

 in the Bohus Skiii'gard by M. Malm, who describes it as 

 nearly allied to G. minutus. 



Kroyer admits but three of the above-named species in 

 the Danish fauna, viz., the G. niger, the G. Ituthensparri, 

 and the G. minutus ; but he has added one of his own 

 {G. microps, Kroy.), which is, however, founded on a 

 single specimen, and which, he says, stands in close rela- 

 tion to the G. minutus. 



