Mr. G. A. Boulenger on Gobius capito. 229 



scarcely emarginate. Caudal peduncle as long as deep. 

 •Scales extremely small, smooth; lat. 1. 120-125. Yellowish 

 brown above, with transverse dark brown spots or interrupted 

 cross-bands ; head dark olive-brown above ; lower parts 

 whitish ; dorsal and caudal greyish, the latter blackish at the 

 base ; pectorals greyish olive above, white beneath ; ventrals 

 and anal white ; a black spot at base of ventral. 



Total length 93 millim. 



Specimens were collected by Dr. R. Hanitscli, of the Raffles 

 ]\Juseum, Singapore, on Mount Kina Balu, in the Kadaraaian 

 River, at an altitude of 2100 feet. 



A female contains ripe ova of large size, 2 millim. in 

 diameter. 



XXII. — On the Occurre.y^ce o/ Gobius capito on the Coast of 

 Brittany. By G. A. Boulengee, F.R.S. 



Last year in the Bay of Concarneau, and this year in the 

 Gulf of St. Malo, my attention was attracted to a large Goby, 

 growing to 10 inches, and most excellent eating, which 

 appears to have been overlooked by all authors who have 

 written on the fishes of the English Channel and the Bay of 

 Biscay. This Goby I have ascertained to be Gobius capito, 

 C. & v., a species believed to be restricted to the Mediter- 

 ranean. The description given by most recent authors 'of the 

 Gobies of the English Channel are so unsatisfactory, and 

 denote so imperfect a knowledge on the part of the authors 

 who have dealt with them, that it is highly probable the 

 species will soon be added to the British fauna, as specimens 

 may have been confounded with G. paganellus and G. niger, 

 which latter species is stated by Day to attain to at least 

 9^ inches in length, although I strongly doubt its ever reaching 

 much more than half that length. Mr. E. J. Allen kindly 

 informs me that the largest Goby preserved in the Plymouth 

 Laboratory is a G. niger 5 inches long. 



In order to assist in the identification of this fish and to 

 justify the correctness of my determination, I append the 

 principal characters of a specimen obtained in August in rock- 

 pools at St. Cast, Gulf of St. Malo. 



Habit particularly stout and heavy ; depth of body 5 times 

 in total length, length of head 3§ times. Head a little 

 broader than deep; snout li diameter of eye, which is 5^ 

 times in length of iiead and a little exceeds interorbital width ; 

 strongly enlarged outer teeth in the jaws ; maxillary extending 

 to below posterior third of eye; head scaly only on the 



