xo. 1592. FISHES FROM GULF OF MEXICO—JORDAN AND DICKERSON. 21 
by Doctor Gill from the island of Trinidad. Giinther mentions a 
specimen from Surinam. 
We have six examples, the largest 24 inches long, from a lagoon 
near Tampico, in Tamaulipas. 
RHINOGOBIUS SHUFELDTI (Jordan and Eigenmann). 
Gobius shufeldti (JoRDAN and HigENMANN), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1886, 
p. 495 (New Orleans). = 
Several score of specimens of Pehinogobius shufeldti were taken 
from a lagoon near the mouth of the Rio Panuco. 
The largest measures 24 inches in length. . All agree very closely 
with the original description by Jordan and Eigenmann. 
GOBIOSOMA BOSCI (Lacépéde). 
Gobius bosci Lackrrpr, Hist. Nat. Poiss., II, 1798, p. 555, pl. xvi, fig.’ 1 
(Charleston). 
Gobius alepidotus Buocw and SCHNEIDER, Syst. Ichthol., 1801 (after Lacé- 
pede), p. 547. 
Gobius viridipallidus Mirceniiyi, Trans. Lit. and Philos. Soc. N. Y., I, 1814, 
_ p. 3879 (New York). 
Gobiosoma bosci JORDAN and GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, p.. 6138. 
Gobiosoma molestum GiRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sei. Phila., 1858, p. 169 (In- 
dianola, Texas). 
Head 32 in length: depth 44. D. VII-14; A. 10. Body entirely 
naked. 
Teeth in several rows; the outer of both jaws somewhat enlarged, 
the inner of the lower jaw considerably enlarged and hooked inward. 
The color in alcohol is plain olivaceous, studded with dark pin 
points and shows faint traces of crossbars. The fins are all more or 
less dusky, dorsals and anals being nearly black. 
The head has a complicated arrangement of papille and pores, the 
former close set in rows. The largest papille are those encircling 
the chin; they approach barbels in size and are visible to the naked 
eye. | | 
The arrangement of papille is as follows: 
Five rows pass downward from the orbit; the anterior two end in 
a line of papille bordering the maxillary; the middle and the pos- 
terior two respectively meet two horizontal rows on the cheek, which 
rows in turn are at right angles to a perpendicular series extending 
on a line with the posterior margin of the orbit. A vertical series 
on the anterior part of the opercle joins a backward extending hori- 
zontal row; a double series edges the preopercle below and extends 
forward around the lower jaw; short rows mark the symphysis, also 
the snout between the nasal tentacles and the orbits: two rows on 
the top of the head follow the outlines of the orbits behind and meet 
in the mid-dorsal line. 
