CATALOGUE OF VERTEBRATES. 747 



" Upailonphorus guttatus. Star-gazer. 



" This species is about as abundant as the preceding, and for 

 some time was confounded with it. The first description and 

 figure published was by the writer, in the Proceedings of the 

 Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, I860."— [C. C. A.j 



Family GOBIIDiE. 



The Gobies. 



Gill openings restricted to the sides ; no lateral line ; body not 

 elevated ; spinous dorsal weak ; inner rays of ventrals longest ; pre- 

 maxillaries protractile ; usually no air-bladder. Carnivorous fishes, 

 living on the bottom, usually, of warm seas. 



GOBIOSOMA, Grd. 



(Gobius, L.) 

 bosci, Lac. (alepidotum, Schn.) Goby. 



Body naked ; no canines ; teeth in bands ; ventral fins united ; 

 body oblong, depressed in front, compressed behind ; eyes high, 

 anterior, close together; color olive brown, with seven to eight 

 paler transverse bars ; caudal fin pointed and with curved bars ; 

 mouth small. Dorsal rays, VII — 14; anal rays, 11. 



"This is a very rare fish along the coast of New Jersey. 

 Isolated specimens are occasionally met with in the bays and 

 inlets, and one was taken in 1867 in Delaware Bay." 



Family SCORPiENIDiE. 



Roobfishes. 



Suborbital, with a bony stay (" cottoid " character) ; body elongate, 

 compressed behind; head large, often with spiny ridges; opercles 

 with spines (five on preopercle, two on opercle) ; gill openings wide ; 

 ventrals thoracic, with branched rays (I, 5). Many of this family 

 are viviparous. 



