176 SPOTTED GOBY,: Cais i 
1 of Dhe (SPO, Be EoD) ECsOrR me 
Agua? Athen. lib. vii. p. 284. Gobius Aphya et marfio didtus. 
Aphia, Belox. 207. Arted. fynon. 47. 
Aphya cobites. Rondel. 210. Gobius Aphya. G.  fafciis 
Gefuer pife.67. Wil. pifc. 207. etiam pinnarum fufcis. Liz. 
Raii fyn. pife. 76. > bff. 450. 
W E faw feveral of this fpecies taken laft fum- 
mer on our fandy fhores in the fhrimp nets. 
The length of the largeft was not three inches : 
the nofe was blunt: the eyes large and prominent, 
ftanding far out of the head: the irides fappharine ; 
the head flat; the tongue large ; teeth in both 
jaws. | 
The firft dorfal fin. confifted of fix rays, the fe- 
cond of eleven, and placed at fome diftance from 
the other. 
The ventral fins are united: the anal confift of 
eleven rays: the tailis even at the end. 
The body is of a whitith color, obfcurely fpotted 
with ferruginous: the rays of the dorfal fins, and 
the tail, barred with the fame color. 
Genus 
