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marbled with blackish; lines of blackish points on the fins; the 

 head broad and the cheeks inflated; length one foot and more. 



G. cruentaius, Gmel. (The Bloody Goby.) Large; brown, 

 marbled with grey and red; lips and operculum marbled with a 

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

 forming an H on the nape of the neck, Sec. 



Some species are also found in fresh water; such is the Gob. 

 Jiuviatilis 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 another on each side of that of the caudal. 



Among the Gobies foreign to Europe, we may observe the 

 G. macrocephalus; Cottus macroceph,. Pall., Nov. Act. Petrop., 

 I, pi. X, f. 4, 5, 6, on account of the extreme length of its head, 

 and the G. lanceolatus, BL, 33, 1; G. hato, Buch., pi. 37, f. 10; 

 Eleotris lanceolata^ BL, Schn., pi. xv, which we call the Gobius 

 elongatus, on account of their elongated form and pointed cau- 

 dal.(l) The 



GoBioiDEs, Lacep. 



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

 form but one. Their body is more elongated. (2) The 



TjENioiDEs, Lacep. 



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, as- 

 cends in front of it, both being armed with long hooked teeth; the 

 eye is almost reduced to nothing, and is completely hidden under 

 the skin. The cavity of the mouth is occupied by a fleshy and 

 nearly globular tongue; some small cirri beneath the lower jaw. 



(1) Among these species foreign to Europe we may unhesitatingly place the 

 Gobius Plumieiii, BI. 175, 3;—G. lagocephalus. Pall. VIII, pi. 11, f. 6, 7; — G. Bod- 

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

 xvi, 1, or G. viridi-pallidus, Mitch, op. cit. I, 8, or G. alepidotus, Hi , Schn. 5 — 

 G. Rtisselii, Cuv., Russ. I, 53; — G. giuris, I'.uchan., pi. xxxiii, f. 13; liuss. 1, 50; — 

 G. chatigua, Buch. pi. V, f. 10;— the Bosiryche chinois, Lacep. II, xiv, and many 

 new species to be described in our Hist, des Poissons. 



(2) Gob. Broussonnety Lacep. II, pi. xvii, f. 1, {Gob. oblongatus, Schn., add, 548). 



