446 Mr. R. Collett on two new Species 



covered anteriorly witli fulvous pubescence. The female, of 

 which sex I have only seen a single example, has the face 

 dark blue, the vertex black ; the clypeus with a longitudinal 

 sharp carina ; the thorax black above, with an obscure purple 

 tint on the scutellum, the legs obscure purple ; the abdomen 

 has the first and second segments obscurely purple, the follow- 

 ing segments gi-een and covered with short pale fulvous pu- 

 bescence, the pubescence extends up the sides of the second 

 segment. 



10. Euglossa nigrita. 



Etiglossa nigrita, St.-Farg. Hym. ii. p. 14, 2 . 



Euglossa analis, St.-Farg. Plym. ii. p. ]4, d", nee Westw. (1841). 



Hah. Cayenne ; Para ; Santarem ; Rio Janeiro. 



The female is totally black ; the male has the apex of the 

 abdomen covered with ferruginous or fulvous hair. 



11. Euglossa Romandii. 



. Euglossa Romandii, Guer. Icon. Eeg. Anim. p. 458, c? . 



Hah. Para ; Santarem. 



The female is coloured like the male, having the head and 

 abdomen golden-green, the thorax and legs pm*ple-black. 



LXII. — On two ajpparently new Species o/ Gobius Jrom 

 Norway. By Robert Collett, of Christiania. 



Gohius orca^ n. sp. 



D. 6 1 11. A. 10. V. 6. P. 18. C. 3 I 13 I 3. L. lat. 28. 



Body much compressed, the greatest depth being more than 

 half of the length of the head, which is contained thrice and one 

 half in the total (without caudal). Head depressed, broader 

 than high ; snout shorter than the eye ; lower jaw projecting 

 beyond the upper. Eyes large, very close together, and partly 

 directed upwards, the diameter of the orbits being nearly four 

 tenths of the length of the head. Head and throat scaleless, 

 the scales of the body large. Anal papilla indistinct. The 

 fins elongated ; the origin of the anterior dorsal is in the ver- 

 tical from the root of the pectoral. The interspace between 

 the two dorsal fins is equal to the length of the eye ; the first 

 and second spine of the anterior dorsal produced into filaments ; 



