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SCANDINAVIAN FISHES. 
The Doubly-Spotted Goby is fairly common on the 
west coast of Sweden — being called Robug (“Red- 
belly”) in Bohuslan, according to Malm — in the Sound 
and on the rest of the Danish coast (Winther) and in 
the south of the Baltic (Heincke and Benecke"). It 
has been taken by the eminent naturalist, Dr. Kolmo- 
din, at Morbylanga on the coast of Smolandia, by 
Baron G. C. Cederstrom on the coast of Gothland, 
and by Mr. Wahlberg, Inspector of Fisheries, and Dr. 
Soderlund in the island-belt of Stockholm; but up 
to the present time it has not been ound in Finland 
or the Baltic Provinces of Russia * 6 . On the coast of 
Norway, according to Collett, its range extends at 
least as far as Lat. 65° N. It lives on the coasts of 
Great Britain and Ireland and on the west coast of 
France, north of Gascony; but we have no certain 
evidence of its occurrence farther south or in the Me- 
diterranean. 
The Doubly-Spotted Goby is so small that it is 
of no immediate economical value, but as supplying 
food to our edible fishes, it is of some importance. 
Its own food is composed of small crustaceans. 
GOBIUS MICROPS 
(Sff. LERSTUBBEN c ). 
Plate XIII, fig. 5. 
Characters essentially the same as those of the preceding species , hut the longitudinal diameter of the eye in full- 
grown specimens sometimes less than 1 4 of the length of the head and at most. 40 % of the distance between the 
first ray of the first dorsal fin and that of the second. The boundary of the scaly covering of the body on the 
dorsal side extending from the end of the first dorsal fin along the sides of its base and at a distinct distance 
therefrom. Rays in the first dorsal fin not more than 6. Colour of the body lighter and less variegated than 
in the preceding species , but with more brownish (black) spots and transverse bands; among the black spots ar- 
ranged in rows on the first dorsal fin there sometimes appears a larger spot on the back part of the fin , with a 
marked , azure lustre. 
R. br. 5; D. (5) 6 1 1 -; A. — ; P. 17 1. 18; V. V,; 
9 — 10 8 1. 9 /o 
C. x + 1 1 (13 1. 1 5) + x. 
Syn. Gobius interops, Kr., Damn. Fiske, vol. I, p. 416; Olsson, 
Of vers. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 1868, p. 475; Malm, ibid. 1870, 
p. 844; Id., Forh. Skand. Naturf. Mode Kbhvn, 1873, p. 
383, cett. ; Winth., Naturh. Tidskr. Kbhvn, ser. 3, vol. IX, 
pp. 199, 200, cett.; vol. XI, p. 55; vol. XII, p. 17; Coll., 
Forh. Vid. Selsk. Christ. 1874, p. 168; ibid., Tillsegsh., p. 
56; N. Mag. Naturv. Christ., Bd. 29 (1884), p. 61; Malm, 
Gbgs, Boh. Fn., p. 426, tab. V, fig. 2; Hansson, Ofvers. 
Vet.-Akad. Forh. 1880, No. 4, p. 20; Lillj., Bv., Norg. 
Fisk., vol. I, p. 602; Hansen, Zool. Dan., Fiske, p. 35, 
tab. VI, figg. 1 et 2. 
“ Fische, Fischerei etc. in Ost- und Westpreussen, pp. 84 and 201. 
6 Seidlitz, Fauna Baltica, pp. 29 and 121 (Arch. Naturh. Liv-, Ehst- und Kurlands, ser. 2, Bd. VIII, Lief. 1). 
c A. W. Malm, 1. c. 
