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lateral line present anteriorly, ending above anal. Head 3J; depth 4. 

 D. XII, 19; A. 21 ; P. 14. L. 5 inches. Coast of California, from Point 

 Coucepcion southward. 



(Blennius gfntilix Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbila. 1854, 149: Blcnrius gcniitis 

 Giiuther, iii, 217: Blenmua gentilia Steindachner, Ichth. Beitriige, v, 150, 1876.) 



1156. I. paiiictatus (Wood) J. & G. 



Light olivaceous, with darker reticulations, forming ill-defined ver- 

 tical bars; head with very distinct black dots; a series of black dots 

 on each side of lateral line; dorsal with a black blotch in front and 

 with the lateral bars extending on it; anal fin blackish, the rays tipped 

 with white; caudal barred. Body rather deep; head large, obtuse; 

 iuterorbital space concave, half the diameter of orbit ; orbital cirrus 

 as long as dorsal spines, bifid at tip, branched below; a minute nasal 

 cirrus; no canines; gill-openings extending to about lower fourth of 

 base of pectoral, thus narrower than in L gentilis. Dorsal fin high, 

 little notched, the soft part highest, the spines stiff, 2$ in head. Ilead 

 3f ; depth 3. D. XII, 15; A. 19. Coast of North and South Carolina. 



(Blennius punclatus Wood, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. iv, '278, 1825: Blvnnius punc- 

 tatiiH Giiuther, iii, 228: V Blcnnius hentz Le Sm-ur, Jouru. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. iv, 363, 

 1825: ? ffypsoblennius hentzi Gill, Cat. Fish. East Coast N. Amer. 1861, nomen nuditm.) 



404. HYPLEUROCIIILUS Gill. 



(Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat, Sci. Phila. 1881, 168: type Blennius miihiftlis Grd.) 



This genus differs from Ulnutiun in the restriction of the gill-openings 

 to the sides, the gill-membranes being broadly and fully joined to the 

 isthmus. (6, upsilon; xtzvpov, side; ^st/lo?, lip; the allusion not evi- 

 dent.) 



1 157. II. multifilis (Grd.) Gill. 



Dusky brown, hark and vertical fins with roundish spots, most con- 

 spicuous in the young. Head short, the profile bluntly decurved; max- 

 illary icaching to below middle of eye; four canine teeth, those in the 

 lo\\ci- j;i\v larger than those in upper; supraocular cirri very high, each 

 with lour smaller ones at base. Dorsal fin not emarginate, the soft rays 

 r;ithrr higher than the slender flexible spines; membrane of last ray 

 almost reaching base of caudal; origin of anal in advance of that of 

 >ol't dorsal; pedorals broad, reaching beyond front of anal; veutrals 

 long, nearh reaching vent, Ilead ;}.?; depth about same. D. XIII, 

 11: A. II, IS; V. I, :;. Coast of Texas. (GYd.) 



(fllnmiuH nniltiliiix (iininl, I'. S. Mrx. Round. Surv. 1859, 27, pi. xii, f. 6: JJlmniua 

 multijilix Uiinlher, iii, 502; Gill, Proc. Arad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 18(51, 168.) 



