ADDENDA 114. BLENNIID.E BLENNIUS. 961 



to caudal; pectoral as long as head. Ilead 3; depth 3. D. XII, 

 14; A. 18. South Carolina to Texas. 



(Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 3CO.) 



Page 759. After Blenriius fucorum add: 

 1159 (6)..B. stearnsi J. & G. 



Light greenish olive, with irregular dark bars extending on the fins; 

 skin finely punctate; spinous dorsal and anal dusky. Body compara- 

 tively elongate, compressed; snout short and blunt; the profile mod- 

 erately decurved ; mouth large, oblique, the jaws equal, the maxillary 

 reaching slightly beyond middle of orbit, 2% in head; teeth ji^ 1 ; both 

 jaws with strong curved canines posteriorly; eye moderate, equal to 

 snout, 4^ in head ; supraorbital tentacle forked near the base, as long as 

 snout and orbit; no nuchal filament; gill-membranes nearly free from 

 isthmus, forming a broad fold across it. Dorsal high, continuous, its 

 spines subequal, very slender, the highest half head ; caudal distinct, 1| 

 in head; ventrals not quite reaching vent. Head3i; depth 4|. D. XI, 

 18 ; A. II, 21. Pensacola, Florida, 



(Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 300.) 



1159 (<). IS. favostas Goode & Beau. 



Brownish, finely reticuJated ; a series of bluish blotches on sides; 

 front and sides of head and base of pectoral with a very distinct honey- 

 comb-like net-work of blue lines around hexagonal interspaces; top of 

 head with small oblong blue spots ; a black ocellated spot between 

 first and second spines of dorsal ; anal with oblique blue streaks. Body 

 elongate, compressed; anterior profile moderately decurved. Mouth 

 large, the maxillary reaching posterior border of orbit; each jaw with 

 curved posterior canines. Supraocular cirrus very long and slender, 

 trifid to the base, the main branch nearly as long as head; no nuchal 

 cirrus. Gill-membranes forming a rather narrow fold across isthmus. 

 Dorsal low, continuous, the spines very slender and flexible: the last 

 soft ray slightly joined to candal. Head 3; depth 4|. D. XII, 18; A. 

 II, 20. Garden Key, Florida. 



(Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 416.) 



1159 (d). B. asterias Goode & Bean. 



Olivaceous, with about 6 dark cross bars, which extend on the dorsal 



fin; anal and posterior half of body with numerous round, whitish, 



stellate spots, probably blue in life ; bluish streaks from eye across the 



cheeks: fins vaguely marked. Body moderately elongate, compressed, 



Bull. Nat. Mus. No. 1C 61 



