154 FISHES. 



a blood-red; red lines on the first dorsal; lines of salient points 

 forming an H on the nape of the neck, &c. 



Some species are also found in fresh water; snch is the Goh.Jlu- 

 viatilis, observed by Bonnelli in a lake in Piedmont, smaller than 

 the niger, blackish, without the free pectoral filaments, and a black 

 spot above the branchial aperture. A large one is obtained in the 

 environs of Bologna, the G. lota, Cuv. ; brown; blackish veins on 

 the cheek; a little blackish spot on the base of the pectoral, and an- 

 other on each side of that of the caudal. 



Among the Gobies foreign to Europe, we may observe the G. ma- 

 crocephalus ; Cottus macroceph., Pall., Nov. Act. Petrop., I, pi. x, 

 f. 4, 5, 6, on account of the extreme length of its head. The G. 

 lanceolatiis, Bl. 33, 1 ; G. bato, Buch., pi. 37, f. 10; Eleotris lan- 

 ceolata, Bl., Schn., pi. xv, which we call the Gohius elongatus, on 

 account of their elongated form and pointed caudal*. The 



GoBioiDES, Lacep. 



Only differ from the Gobies in the union of their dorsals, which form but 

 one. Their body is more elongated f. 



T^NioiDES, Lacep. 



These, with the single dorsal of the Gobioides, have a still more elon- 

 gated body. Their physiognomy is extremely singular; the upper jaw is 

 very short; the lower, elevated and every where convex, ascends in front 

 of it, both being armed with long hooked teeth; the eye is almost re- 

 duced to nothing, and is completely hidden under the skin. The cavity 

 of the mouth is occupied by a fleshy and nearly globular tongue, and there 

 are some small cirri beneath the low^er jaw. 



But one species is known, the Tcenioide Hermannien, Lacep., 

 which lives in the mud of ponds, in the East Indies;};. 



Bloch, Schn., p. 63, very properly separates from the whole genus 

 Gohius the 



Periophtalmus, Sehn. 



Which have the entire head scaly; the eyes are brought quite together, 

 and provided at their inferior edge with an eyelid which can be made to 

 cover them, and the pectorals are covered with scal&s for more than half 

 their length, which give them the appearance of being attached to a sort 

 of upper limbs. Their gills being even narrower than those of other 



* Among these species foreign to Europe, we may unhesitatingly place the Cobius 

 Pluviieri, Bl. 175, 3;— G. lagocephahis, Pall. VIII, pi. 11, f. 6, 1 —G. Doddarti, Id. 

 lb., pi. 1, f. 5; — G. ocellaris, Brouss. Dec, pi. 11; — G. lose, Lacep. II, xvi, 1, or G. 

 viridus-pallidus, Mitch, op. cit. I, 8, or G. alepidotus, Bl., Schn.; — G. Russclii, Cuv., 

 Russ. I, .53;— G. giuris, Buchan., pi. xxxiii, f. 13; Riiss. 1, 50; — G. changua, Buch. 

 pi. V, f. 10; — the Boslrnche chhiois, Lact'p. II, xiv, and many new species to be de- 

 scribed in our Hist, des Poissons. 



t Gob. Broiissoiinet, Lacep. II, pi. xvii, f. 1, {Gob. oblongatus, Schn.; add, 548). 



X It is the Ceepola cfrciila, Bl., Schn., pi. liv, from a drawing by John; the Tanioidc 

 hermannien, Lacep. II, xix, 1, liom a Chinese drawing; and the Gobwide rubkunda, 

 Buch., pi. V, f. 9. 



