118. OPHIDIID^E OPHID1UM. 793 



1220. O. josepBai Grd. 



Pale olive, sprinkled all over with brownish specks; belly and sides 

 of head plain ; vertical tins edged with black. Eye moderate, 4 in head ; 

 maxillary extending to opposite its posterior margin ; origin of dorsal 

 at some distance behind base of pectorals. Body shorter and pectorals 

 more elongate than in 0. taylori. Head 6. Saint Joseph's Island, Texas. 

 (jGirard.) 



(Ophidian josephi Girard, U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv. Ichtli. 1859, 29.) 



1221. O. lioBba-ooki Putnam. 



" Inner barbel nearly two-thirds length of the outer; outer barbel equal 

 to the distance from the center of the eye to the point of the operculnm ; 

 maxillary reaching to the posterior border of the eye. Length of the 

 eye equal to the distance from its posterior margin to the ridge of the 

 preoperculum. Head one-sixth of the total length of the fish. Dorsal 

 and anal with a black margin. Gill-rakers 4. Air-bladder long, pointed, 

 without a foramen." L. 6 inches. Key West, Florida. (Putnam.) 



(Putnam, Proc. Bust. Soc. Nat. Hist. 1874, 342.) 



1222. O. tayloa-i Girard. 



Light olive; head and upper parts covered with conspicuous round 

 dark, olive-brown spots; chin dusky; vertical fins edged with black. 

 Head large, little compressed, naked; top of head with conspicuous 

 mucous pores. Dorsal fin beginning over the pectorals; outer ray of 

 ventrals little more than half length of head; inner about one-third. 

 Air-bladder ovate, not contracted; seven gill-rakers below the angle of 

 the arch; pseudobranchiae developed. No spine on the end of the 

 snout. Outer teeth in both jaws considerably enlarged, the upper 

 largest. Head G; depth 8. L. 12 inches. Coast of California; not 

 rare. 



(Girard, U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv. Fish. 1859, 138.) 

 aa. Outer teeth in jaws movable; head scaly above. (Leptophidium* Gill.) 



1223. O. pa-ofBiiados-BBiBi (Gill) J. & G. 



Light rufous ; vertical fins margined with black. Body very slender; 

 scales regularly arranged in quincunx order; scales on head extending 

 to forehead, opercles, and cheeks; snout high, projecting, armed with a 

 concealed spinous hook ; teeth villiform, separated by an interval from 

 an outer row of longer, slender, movable teeth; eye longer than snout, 

 3J in head; lateral line obsolete behind ; vent toward end of first third 



*Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1H03, 210: type Leptophidium prof andorum Gill, 

 d?, slender; 6(pi8iov, Ophidhmi.) 



