948 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 



rated by a very narrow interorbital space. Dorsal spines slender, the 

 til tli slightly produced, reaching base of third soft ray when depressed. 

 Last rays of dorsal and anal reaching slightly past base of caudal. 

 Caudal lanceolate, the middle rays produced, 2f in body. Upper pec- 

 toral r.iys not silk-like. Ventral longer than head, reaching beyond 

 front of anal. Body covered with very small cycloid scales, which are 

 readily deciduous; head naked. Head 3^; depth 4^. D. VII-16; A. 

 1."). L. H inches. Charleston Harbor. This species is closely allied 

 to L. emblematicus Jor. & Gilb., from Panama. 

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



Page 638. Instead of Gobiosoma alepidotum read : 

 993. G. bosci (Lac.) J. & G. 



To the synonomy add: 



(Gobius bosc Laedpede, Hist. Nat. Poiss. ii, 555, 1800. The name alcpidotus was given 

 by Schneider in IriOl as a substitute for this personal name.) 



Page G38. Gobiosoma molestum is not distinguishable by us from G. 

 bosci. It may therefore be suppressed. 



Page G38. After Gobiosoma bosci add: 

 993 (b). G. ios Jor. & Gilb. 



Light olive ; back, sides, and upper fins speckled with dark olive ; 

 caudal with 3 or 4 dark olive cross-bars; lower fins pale. Body long 

 and slender, moderately compressed; head long and low, anteriorly 

 pointed, its profile scarcely convex; mouth very large, oblique, the 

 jaws subequal ; maxillary reaching middle of cheek, its length more 

 than half head ; teeth slender, in moderate bands, the outer somewhat 

 enlarged. Eye as long as snout, 4J in head. Body entirely naked. 

 I ins low, the spines slender; caudal short. Head 4; depth G. D. 

 VI-15; A. 12. L. 2 inches. Puget Sound; one specimen known, from 

 the stomach of a Hexar/rammuN nxpfir. 



t.Jor. V (Jilb. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 18ri2.) 



Page G39. After Tyntla*tfx sdfjitla add: 



35O (/). IOCSLOSSITS Bean. 



(llt-an, Proc. U. S. Nat. MM*. I--.', 11!': type fofjlossus cnUiurus Bean.) 



P.odv elongate, strongly compressed, of equal depth throughout, cov- 

 ered with very small, mostly cycloid, scales. Head short, compressed, 

 not keeled above; mouth large, oblique, the lower jaw projecting; 

 in narrow bands or single series, some of them canine; no teeth 



