94G CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 



cross-bars and blotches; fins mostly spotted or barred. Body elongate. 

 Head large, low, not very blunt. Mouth large, very oblique, the man- 

 dible strongly projecting; the maxillary extending to below middle of 

 pupil, L' in head. Teeth ill few series, those of the outer row very 

 l<mg, slender, and curved. Scales small, cycloid, imbedded. Head 

 and nape scaleless. Dorsal spines slender, the longest somewhat fila- 

 mentous; caudal long; upper pectoral rays not silk-like; veutrals in- 

 serted directly below pectorals. Head 3; depth 5. D. VI-15; A. 10; 

 Lat. 1. 42. L. 3 inches. Florida to Texas. 

 (Gobiits (julosus Grd. U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv. Ichth. 185U, 26.) 



Page C35. Before Golius glaucofrcenum iusert- 

 97 (6). G. fooleosoma J. & G. 



Pale olivaceous, mottled with darker; male with a black humeral 

 spot; fins barred, their edges tinged with orange. Form, size, and 

 coloration of Bolcosoma olmstedi. Head not very blunt. Mouth mod- 

 erate, horizontal, the lower jaw included; the maxillary reaching nearly 

 to middle of eye. Teeth small, slender, in narrow bauds, the outer 

 somewhat larger. Scales moderate, ctenoid. Dorsal spines not fila- 

 mentous; caudal pointed, slightly longer than head; upper rays of 

 pectorals not silk-like. Head 4; depth 44. D. VI-12; A. I, 11; Lat. 

 1. 33. L. 2 inches. Pensacola, Fla. 



(Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. MUH. 1882, 295.) 



987 (') G. Ktig-maturus Goodo & Bean. 



Light olive, sides marbled with whitish; a dusky spot on opercle and 

 one below tye; sides with 5 dusky blotches along median line, the last 

 (Hie a round black spot at base of caudal ; vertical fins with wavy black- 

 ish bars; paired fins plain. F.orm of G. boleoxoma ; head not very blunt ; 

 miout little- shorter than eye; lower jaw not shorter than upper. Max- 

 illary extending to below middle of eye, 2'j in head. Teeth strong, 

 curved, those of the upper jaw in a narrow band, two of the teeth some- 

 what canine-like; lover teeth large, in a single irregular series. Scales 



large, (host the nape reduced, all ctenoid. Dorsal spines slender; 



fins not elevated; caudal as long as head ; upper rays of pectoral not, 

 silk like. Head I; depth li. 1 >. YI-12; A. 12; Lat. 1. 30. L. 2 inches. 

 West coast of Florida. 



1C A Hraii. I'H.r. T. S. Nat. Mu9. 1882,418.) 



<>N7 (d). G. nicholsi i:-an. 



Olivaceous; scales edged with dusky; top of spinous dorsal black; 

 second dorsal and caudal spotted with dark; ventrals black. Bodj 



