104. GOB1IDJE - LEPIDOGOBIUS. 637 



coast of United States, extremely abundant southward. It lives in 

 shallow creeks and lagoons, where it fills the bottoms with holes and 

 tunnels. 

 (Cooper, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1863, 111.) 



Gill. 



( Cyclogobius Steindachner. ) 

 (Gill, Aun. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y. 1859, 14: type Gobius gradha Grd.) 



Scales small, cycloid; dorsal spines 7 or 8; otherwise essentially as 

 in Gobius. Pacific Ocean. (Is-tous, scaly; Gobius.} 



a. Head scaly. (Lcpidogobius.) 



991. JL. gracilis (Grd.) Gill. 



Very pale olive, with roundish blotches of rusty red on back and 

 sides; vertical fins mottled with reddish; distal half of all fins and 

 under side of head blackish, especially in the males. Body elongate, 

 long and low, little compressed, covered with thin, smooth, half-im- 

 bedded scales. Head scaly above and on cheeks and opercles; mouth 

 oblique; jaws equal; maxillary extending to below middle of eye. 

 Teeth in rather broad bauds, the outer teeth enlarged, especially in 

 upper jaw; outer teeth in lower jaw somewhat movable. Eyes large, 

 placed high, the iuterocular space very narrow; opercle adnate to scapu- 

 lar arch from upper edge of pectoral upward. Fins 'rather high, the 

 dorsal spines slender, flexible and exserted at tip ; pectorals short, not 

 reaching so far as tips of ventrals; ventrals inserted slightly behind 

 axil of pectorals; basal sheath of ventrals large. Head 4; depth 6J. 

 D. VII-18; A. 15. L. 5 inches. Pacific coast of United States; com- 

 mon northward, in rather deep water. 



(Gobins gracilis Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phiia. 1854, 134, not of Jenyns: Gnbins 

 lepidus Girard, U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv. Fish. 127: Gobius lepklns Giiuther, iii, 78.) 



aa. Head naked. (EiicyclogoHus* Gill.) 



99$. JL. newtocrryi (Grd.) Gill. 



Olivaceous, mottled with darker; spinous dorsal and anal tipped with 

 dusky; second dorsal and caudal checkered; pectorals transparent; 

 head with some dusky markings. Body short, chubby, little com- 



*Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbila. 1882, 330: type Gobius newberryi Grd. "The 

 genus Eucyclogobius is very distinct from Lepidogobius, differing especially in the 

 robust, subfnsiform body, the size and position of the eyes, wider forehead, shape of 

 jaws, and especially the position of the ventral fins." (Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila. 1863, 264.) (ev, well; KvxhoS, cycloid; Gobius.) 



