1878.] MR. R. COLLETT ON CERTAIN GOBIOID FISHES. 319 



and with strong canine teeth, which form the hinder series in the 

 upper jaw. Two separated dorsal fins, the first composed of 5 

 spines. Ventral fins united, gill-openings rather wide. Pseudo- 

 branchiae present. 



Latrmculus pellucidus J ad., in the breeding-season, ?. 

 L. pellucidus (Nardo). 



1824. Gobius pellucidus, Nardo, Giorn. Fis. Chim. Stor Nat 

 Tavia, torn. m. Osserv. p. 7 {teste Giinther). 



rt f^}y. ph tZ e ? idi ° nalis ' RisS0 ' Hist Nat - Eur - Mer. torn. iii. 

 p. /o/ (raris, 1 826). 



,ol 8 i 7 ", Gohh ' S albus > Parn> Trans - R °y- Soc. Edinb. vol xiv n 

 137, Feb. 1837 (Edinb. 18-40). P ' 



iflifi" ?f i ™ si ™it™>/;VM-& Kor. Kgl. Vet. Akad. Forhandl. 

 1844, p. 51, tab. n. fig. 4 (Stockh. 1846). 



1859. Gobius pellucidus, n. sp., Kessl. Bull. Soc. Nat Mosc 1859 

 torn. xxxn. No. 2, p. 260 (Mosc. 1859). 



1861. Latrunculus albus, Gunth. Cat. Acanth. Fish. Brit Mus 

 vol. hi. p. 80, and p. 556 (Lond. 1861). 



1861. Latrunculus pellucidus, Gunth. Cat. Acanth. Fish Brit 

 Mus. vol.111, p. 556 (Lond. 1861). 



J. in! P G st jK.'S'Jf GUnth ' Cat Acanth< Fish - Erit Mus - 



1863, 6 p. SfiSSS. jffif Gm> Pr ° C - ^^ Nat SCL Phi,ad - 

 \?Jh ^trunculus stuwitzii, Coll. Forh. Vid, Selsk. Christ. 1872 

 p. 9 (Chnstiania, 1873). ' 



Teeth in the mature male long and cylindrical, and with strona 

 curved canine teeth in both jaws ; teeth in the female and the im- 

 mature male minute. The ventral fins united to a funnel, with the 



the 8 vent ayS t0WardS ^ ^^ Th6 ° VarieS d ° n0t pr ° ject behil,d 



D'5, D 2 13(12); C. io+17+xo; A. 14; V. 6; P 16- 

 Lin. lat. 25 ; Vertebr. 27 ; M. Br. 5. 



A. Remarks on the Synonymy. 



The first northern form of the transparent Gobioids was discovered 



by Parnel m the Scottish friths, and shortly described in Feb 1837 



in the 1 4th volume of the Trans, of the Royal Society of Edinburgh' 



under the name of Gobius albus. His description (which, by the way' 



