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holes; the head is reddifli hrown above, yellow at the 
fides ; -the gill-covert is fingle ; the aperture is large-, 
and the membrane lies partly bare ; tlie body is covered 
with little fcales ; the back is round, of a brown.red 
colour, inclining to yellow towards the Vselly, which-is 
white ; the fins are all yellow ; the peftorals and tail 
edged with black. See the Plate, fig. 4. Plumier de- 
fcribes this fpecies as inhabiting the ftreams of the An¬ 
tilles ; it multiplies fall; is good eating and eafy of di- 
gellion. Plumier is the firll who defci ibed it ; Iris ma- 
nufcript calls it, Ceplialus JInviatilis minor, vulgo fucet ; by 
the word fucet he probably meant tiiat by inea.ns of its 
ventral fins it could fallen itfelf to other fubltances ; 
but this Blocli pronounces to be an erroi'. 
24. Gobius ocellaris, the one-eyed goby. Specific 
charadter—the upper jaw the longell; a I'pot like an 
eye, and fix rays, in tlie firll dorfal fin. There are five 
rays in the membrane of the gills, eleven in the fecond 
doiTa! fin, lixteen in the petloral fins, fix in the ven- 
trals, eleven in the anal, and twenty-two in the tail, 
which is much rounded. Tltis fpecies is found in the 
irelh waters of the illand of Otaheitc in the great equi- 
noxiai ocean ; and was defcribed and figured by Brouf- 
fonet from an individual brought over by fir Joleph 
Banks. It is probably called awaou by the natives ; at 
leaft that is the name given it in the new Mydrograph.ic 
Nomenclature prefented by Fleurieu to the national in- 
llitute at Paris in May 1799, and now adopted by the 
Frencli rvriters. Tlie body is long and cornpreifcd ; the 
fcales ciliated ; head fmall, furrow'ed at the top ; the 
teeth in tlie lorver jaw are the frnallell, and there are 
little lharp teeth in tlie throat both above and below ; 
the belly is of a fea-g-reen colour ; dark lhades of olive 
and black prevail on the back ; the anal and tail fins 
are greenilh, with ftripes of tlie fame colour and of 
brown tipon the rays and upon thofe of the fecond dor- 
ial ; the petlorals and ventrals are blackilh. A black 
ocellated fpot appears on the hinder edge of the firll 
dorfal fin. 
25. Gobius frrigatus, the firiped goby. Specific cha- 
rabtep—the ventral fins not united, fix rays in the firll 
dorfal. There are fix rays in the membrane of the gills, 
twenty in the fecond dorlal fin and in each pectoral, 
twelve in the ventrals, nineteen in the anal, and twenty- 
two in the tail. This and the three follow'ing are made 
a dillintl genus by Cepede, from the ventral fins Hand¬ 
ing apart or di Hindi : he calls it gobiomorus, “nearer 
allied to the goby.” This is alio an Otalieitan Ipecies, 
and found in the Pacific Ocean. The defeription was 
derived by Broulfonet from the fame fource with the 
preceding. It is one of the moll beautiful of the ge¬ 
nus. The body is long and taper ; fcales almofi fquare, 
and fomewhat ferrated ; the head is comprelTed, yet is 
wider than the body 5 the upper jaw is rather the long¬ 
ell ^ both are furnilhed with irregular teeth ; the tongue 
and -palate are fmooth, but the throat is rough with 
fnarp teetli bending back; the rays of the firll dorlal 
fin are very long; the tail fin is broad and rounded. 
The back is.red incliping to blue ; the under part whitilh ; 
the head is yellow mingled with green, Itriped and dot¬ 
ted ; brown liripes appear about the pectoral fins, and 
reddifli fpois on e^cii lide of the body and tail ; the 
dorfal, anal, and tail, fins, are green witli fome fiiades 
of red and yellov/, and a number of red llreaks in dif¬ 
ferent directions,; and the rays are moltly of a bright 
red; the piipiTof the eye is black, the iris green and 
white. 
26. Gobius Koelretiteri, Koelreuter’s goby. Specific 
charaCler—ventrals dillintt, eleven rays in tlie firll dor¬ 
fal. d'h’ere are only two rays in the membrane or the 
gills, tliirteen in the fecond dorfal fin and in each pec¬ 
toral, twelve in the ventrals, eleven in the anal, and 
tliirteen in the tail. This is named alter a learned lui- 
tiiialill at Baden. It is of a light grey colour, Ihort, 
and thick; the eyes are vertical, and very ciofe toge- 
I u s. 
ther, as in the SchlofTeri, to which it bears a farther re- 
femblance from the pefitoral fins being attached to 
flelhy produftions, and fo originating at foine diftance 
from the body. The lips are double, and flelliy ; the 
teeth irregular, but conical in fliape; the tail-fin is lan¬ 
ceolate, and behind it appears that canal wliich Lin- 
n:eus calls pedunculus genitale. The firll dorfal fin is 
brown edged with black ; the fecond is yellowilh, with 
a longitudinal ftripe of black, and is tranfparent. 
27. Gobius Gronovii, Gronpviiis’s goby. Specific 
charadler—ventrals apart, ten rays in the firll dorfal fin, 
the tail bifurcated. There are five rays in the mem- 
brane'of the gills, tliirty in the fecond dorfal fin, twenty- 
lour in the pedtorals, and ten in the ventrals. We are 
indebted to Gronovius for a knowledge of this fpecies, 
and it jullly bears his name : he found it amid tlie tor¬ 
rid zone, in the American Ocean. It lias foine relation 
to the Scomber genus. The fcales are fmall and filvery, 
except on the back, where they are black ; black fpots 
are fpread over the fides; the head is covered with 
broad fc.dy plates ; the eyes are large, and at tlie fides 
ot the liead, not vertical as in many fpecies ; the mouth 
is fmall ; both jaws and the palate are furnillied with 
even rows ol teeth ; tlie tongue is fmooth, I'mall, and 
rounded; the ventral fins arc very large; the anus is 
nearly midway the wiiole length. 
28. Gobius dormitor, tlie ficeping goby. Specific 
charadler—eight rays in t!*c anal fin and in eacii petloral. 
liiis Ipecies is added by Cepede from Plumier’s manu- 
Icripts. It is found in iVeffi water, e-fpecially in marliiy 
places in South America. The lower jaw is tlie long- 
eil ; the tail fin is much rounded. It is named fieepy 
troin its dulnefs and llo-w motions. 
29. Gobius Pifonis, Pifo’sgoby. Specific charabler— 
the lower jaw the longell., the ventral fins dillindt. 
Tlie dorfal fin has forty-five rays, each pettoral feven- 
teen, each ventral fix, the anal twenty-three, and the 
tail twelve. 4 liis fpecies forms in Cepede a genus of 
itlelf, the Gobiomoroidcs, from the ventrals beins^ dil- 
tinct, and only one fin on the back. Pifo, in his work 
on India, has mentioned this lilli, and fiiccceding writers 
have given it his name. TJie head is flatted and late¬ 
rally comprelTed, covered with fcales almofl as large as 
thofe on the back ; there are leverai rows of llrong fliarp 
teeth in the jaws; but the lower jaw contains one row 
of larger llronger teeth, more be.nt, and ftanding farther 
apart; the fin of the tail is rounded. Native of South 
America. 
30. Gpbius cephalus, the great-headed goby. Spe¬ 
cific character—head long and large ; ventrals dillinct ; 
only one dorfal fin, placed very far back. The dorfal 
fin has eight rays, the pedtorals eleven, the ventrals 
five, the anal four or five, and the tail eleven. This 
again is made a dillinbt genus by Cepede, though it has 
tiie fame charadters as the preceding, namely, the ven¬ 
tral fins I'eparate, and but one fin on the back. - Plumier, 
from whole manulcript ic is defcribed, calls it cephalus 
and tefar, trom its having a large head; but the' head 
feems rather long than large. It is found in the IVefli 
waters of South America ; the liead is broader than 
the body, rounded before, rather flat at the top ; tlie 
eyes are very near eacii other ; tlie lips are double, and 
flexible ; there is a flight indention at the iiind-head, 
as it to diftiiiguifli the liead from the body ; and a linii- 
lar one on the back ; the belly is thick, much pro¬ 
truded, and clearly dillinguilhed from the under part 
of the tail ; the dorlal fin is very fmall, and placed jui't 
upon the end of the tail near the caudal fin ; a con¬ 
formation liiiiilar to the pike, and hence Cepede’s ge¬ 
neric term Gobiefox, or pike goby. The anal fin begins 
llill farther bark than the dorlal, but is nearly under or 
oppofite to it ; the tail fin, then, is very near tiie anal 
and dorfal fiiia ; it is nrorcover very broad and much 
rounded. 'I'he prevailing colour of this tiih is red, 
darker on the back dian 011 the lower parts; there ar-e 
neither 
