434 FISHEKIES OF THE UNITED STATES. [48] 



GOBIESOCID^. 



33. Gobiesox virgafulus Jor. & Gilb. 



Gobiesox virgatulus Jor. & Gilb., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882 (August 



15), p. 293. 

 Gobiesox nudus Gunther ; not Cyclopterus nudus Linn6. 



Gulf of Mexico, occasionally taken at Pensacola and 

 known from several examples obtained at Biloxi. 



32625. Biloxi, Mississippi. 



GOBIID.E. 



34. Gobio§©ma b©§cii (Lac.) Jor. & Gilb. 



Gobius alepidotus Bl. & Schn., Syst. Ichth., 1801, p. 547. 



Gobiosoma molestum Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1858, p. 169, 



and U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., Fishes, p. 27, pi. xii, fig. 14. 



Guntrer, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., iii, 1861, p. 556. 



If the synonymy here given be correct, the range of 

 this little goby is from Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts, 

 to Texas. The species has been found in the Potomac 

 Elver, and the Gulf form is said to have been taken 

 at the falls of the Ohio Eiver. 



30768. Pensacola, Florida. Silas Stearns. 



35. Gobius sop©rat©r 0. & V. 



Gobius catulus Girard, U. S. & Mex. Bound. Snrv., Fishes, 1859, p. 26, 

 pi. xii, figs. 9, 10. 



Atlantic coast of the Southern United States ; Gulf 

 of Mexico; Caribbean Sea; West Indies; Mediter- 

 ranean ? 



This species has been found in large numbers at Pen- 

 sacola by Mr. Stearns. The close resemblance of G. 

 catulus to G. soporator was pointed out by Dr. Giinther 

 in 1861 (Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., iii, p. 549.) 

 30755. (2 spec.) Pensacola, Florida. Silas Stearns. 



36. Gobius bolcosoma Jor. & Gilb. 



Gobius boleosoma Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, p. 295 

 and Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1883, p. 946. 



Known only from Pensacola, Florida, where it is not 

 uncommon. 

 30860. (2 spec.) Pensacola, Florida. Jordan & Stearns. 



37. Culius amblyopsis Cope. 



Culius amblyopsis Cope, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. Phila., 1870, p. 473. 

 Atlantic coast of Southern United States; Gulf of 



Mexico; Surinam; West Indies. 

 One specimen has recently been taken at Charleston, 

 South Carolina, by Mr. C. C. Leslie and another by 

 Prof. C. H. Gilbert, in July or August, 1882. 

 32853. Pensacola, Florida. Silas Stearns. 



