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02 BULLETIN OF THE 
Crystallogobius nilssoni (Düb. & Ker.) Gill (Gobiosoma nilssoni Günther, 
Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., III. 86), a species found on the coast of Norway, 
from which it is distinguished generically by the obsolete eyes. . . . The 
eyes are large and conspicuous in C. nilssoni.” 
With reference to the integument of the head aud its tactile organs, 
this author says : “On the under side of the head'the skin (in a pre- 
served specimen) lies in irregular folds, which conform generally to the 
outlines of the lower jaw, the outer folds reaching the gill openings. 
Between the lower lip and these folds there is a series of papilla which 
has its origin a short distance behind the corner of the mouth, the series 
being slightly separated close behind the symphysis of the lower jaw by 
two small, rounded flaps. The papilla number about fourteen on either 
side of the flaps. On the superior surface of the snont, extending pos- 
teriorly half as far as the termination of the maxillary, the skin is finely 
wrinkled, and there is on either side a conspicuous flap, which seems to 
conceal a nostril.” The largest specimen examined by Miss Smith was 
22 inches in length. 
The same author (^90, p. 181) publishes a note made by her at San 
Diego, July 3, 1882, on the tenacity of life exhibited by this species, which 
is so characteristic of it that I quote the passage nearly entire : “Three 
specimens were secured and were placed alive in a two-quart tin pail 
along with seaweeds, polyzoa, hydroids, living mollusks, a sea-cumber, 
and a number of small fishes and crabs. The living forms in the pail 
were so crowded and so short of water that all of the fishes except the 
three pink blind fish had died before I reached home, the drive of 
twelve miles being over a hilly road for some distance. . . . When re- 
turning from La Jolla and other points along the seabeach, I have fre- 
quently carried home the tide-pool species alive in this manner, and 
invariably the Oligocottus analis, one of the small Cottidee, was more 
tenacious of life than any of the other species. At this time, however, 
Oligocottus expired with the rest, leaving the blind fish to claim the 
honor of being the most hardy of the smaller species of the region. 
This species is scaleless and exceedingly slippery. I took one of these 
examples from the pail, when, like an eel, it slipped through my fingers 
into a barrel of rain water standing near, swimming around in the barrel 
several times. I then removed it to a clean shallow dish into which I 
had poured half a cupful of sea sand, together with the small amount of 
dirty sea water which had covered the medley of animate beings before 
mentioned. Typhlogobius, still active, tried to bury itself in the sand, 
but the dish was too shallow, and several efforts proved unavailing. . . . 
