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BROAD-FINNED GOBY. 
Qobius hiocellatus, t! 
Tins species has much the same habits, and is found in the 
same places as the last, with which it has been confounded, 
and to which it bears considerable resemblance. The differences 
will be found in the following description. It is not quite so 
long, its greatest length being about two inches; but the fore 
part of the body is stouter. The eye is large, a little higher 
on the head, which is flat. Jaws about equal. Scales on the 
body large for the size of the fish. The dorsal fins are rather 
closer together; but what is to be particularly noted is the high 
elevation of the second dorsal fin, and the great length of 
the hinder rays, which, when laid on the back, overlap the 
root of the tail. The first ray of the first dorsal highest, 
seven in all; in the second dorsal twelve, as is also in the anal 
fin; upper rays of the pectoral longest, supposed eighteen rays; 
ventrals wide, fan-shaped, with ten rays, tail round, with 
thirteen rays. . 
The general colour is brown, with a tinge of pink, speckled 
along the sides with white tinged with purple. Two ocellated 
spots, as in the Two-Spotted Goby Dorsal fins and tail on 
a ground of pink have lines of faint white which decline as 
they pass backward. The cheeks yellow; belly white. In one 
example the anal fin was almost as wide as the second dorsal 
