Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 2259 



edge of anal light, middle dark ; breast with many well-defined spots ; a 

 dark line running forward and downward from eye to angle of mouth, 

 another extending straight downward from eye; a black bar on edge of 

 preopercle, and a black spot on upper edge of opercle. A specimen taken 

 at Key West is thus described : Pale olive, with darker cross bands formed 

 of dark dots; a row of dark dots along middle of side; vertical fins all 

 mottled and faintly barred with dark olive; pectorals and ventrals nearly 

 plain. Length 2| inches. Gulf coast of the United States; common in 

 shallow waters along the coast from Key West to Texas and south to Bahia. 

 (molestus, disturbed.) 



Gobiosoma molestum, GlRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1858, 169, Indianola, Texas ; 



GIRARD, TL S. andMex. Bound. Surv., 27, pi. 12, fig. 14. 1859 ; GtJNTHER,Cat., in, 556, 1861 ; 



JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 638, 1883 ; JORDAN & EIGENMANN, I. c., 508. 

 Gobiosoma alepidotum, J ORD AN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 297, Laguna Grande, 



Pensacola. (Coll. Dr. Jordan.) 



2592. GOBIOSOMA BOSCI (Lac6pede). 

 (NAKED GOBY.) 



HeadSi; depth 5 to 6. D. VII-14; A. 10; eye 5, longer than snout. 

 Body more elongate ; head very broad, flattish above, with tumid cheeks. 

 Eye small. Mouth large, little oblique, jaws subequal, the maxillary 

 extending to below posterior part of orbit (at least in male), 2 in head. 

 Teeth in few series, the outer considerably enlarged; 2 teeth on each side 

 of inner series of lower jaw especially large canines. Dorsal spines slender, 

 not filamentous ; caudal rounded. Olivaceous, with darker cross shades of 

 rounded spots ; vertical fins dusky, faintly barred. Atlantic coast of the 

 United States, Cape Cod to Florida; generally common, especially south- 

 ward in shallow grassy bays. (Named for M. Bosc, French consul at 

 Charleston in the last century; an ardent naturalist.) 



Gobius bosci, LACEPEDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., II, 555, pi. 16, fig. 1, 1798, Charleston, South 



Carolina. (Coll. M. Bosc.) 

 Gobius alepidotus, BLOCH & SCHNEIDER, Syst. Ichthyol., 547, 1801, after LACEPEDE; DE 



KAY, N. T. Fauna : Fishes, 160, pi. 23, fig. 70, 1842. 

 Gobius viridipallidus, MITCHILL, Trans. Lit. and Philos. Soc. N. Y., i, 1814, 379, pi. 1, fig. 8, 



New York. 

 Gobiosoma bosci, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 613 ; JORDAN & EIGENMANN, 



I. c., 508. 

 Gobiosoma alepidotum, GIJNTHEH, Cat., in, 85, 1861 ; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 638, 1883. 



2593. GOBIOSOMA CBESCENTALE, Gilbert. 



Head 3| in length; depth 6; eye 5& in head; snout 5fc. D. VII-12; A. 

 11. Body very slender, the head depressed, broad and flattened above, 

 the head and body of nearly equal depth throughout. Mouth small, 

 oblique, the maxillary not extending beyond the vertical from posterior 

 border of orbit, 2 in head ; eyes small, 1 J in the rather broad interorbital 

 space. Teeth in bands in both jaws, the outer series enlarged, canine- 

 like, and distant. Fins all small, the caudal short and rounded from a 

 broad base, pectoral as long as head without snout; ventrals short, not 



