104. GOBIID.E DC-EMIT ATOR. 631 



9?. P. doB'inatator (Bl. & Schn.) Cuv. & Val. 



Brownish, marbled with darker; sides of head with 2 brown stripes; 

 tins rose-colored, with series of brown spots ; two oblong brown spots 

 on base of pectorals. Snout sharp; maxillary reaching to opposite 

 middle of orbit. Vomeriue teeth in a crescent-shaped band. Eye small, 

 half width of interorbital space. Caudal peduneleVery long and rather 

 slender. Head 3 in length; depth about 5i. D. VI-I, 9; A. I, 9; 

 Lat. 1. 00. L. 1-2 feet. Texas and southward, entering the rivers. 



(PlatycepJialus donnltator Bl. & Scliu. 60, 18UI: Eleotris dormitutrlx Gliutlier, iii, 119; 

 Cuv. & Val. xii, 255.) 



34O. EL-EOTRflS Gronow. 

 - Tetards. 



(Goliomoms and GaMomoroides Lacepede.) 

 (Grouow; Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichtli. 1801, 65: type Elcotris gyrinus Cuv. & Val.) 



Body long and low, compressed behind. Head long, low, flattened 

 above, without spines or crests, almost everywhere scaly. Mouth large, 

 oblique, the lower jaw projecting. Teeth in jaws villiform, fixed; no 

 teeth on vomer or palatines. Preopercle and branchiostegals unarmed. 

 Eyes small, high, anterior; isthmus broad. Dorsal fins well apart, the 

 first of about 7 flexible spines; ventrals separate. Scales small, cycloid, 

 00-100 in a longitudinal series. Tropical seas, entering fresh waters. 

 (rj^o-.f bewildered.) 



9^9. E. gyi'BMWLS Cuv. & Val. Tetard; Sleeper. 



Brownish ; vertical fins, with brown dots ; two darker stripes behind 

 the orbit. Body elongate, moderately compressed, of nearly equal 

 depth throughout. Caudal peduncle long and deep. Head rather broad 

 and flattened above, its scales minute. Mouth large, very oblique; 

 maxillary reaching beyond the vertical from centre of orbit. Eye small, 

 half width of iuterorbital space. Head 3 in length; depth about 5. 

 D. VI-I, 8 ; A. I, 8 ; Lat. 1. about GO. Brackish waters, from Texas 

 southward. 



(IGobliis pisonis Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1783, 120:>; Cuv. & Val. xii, 250; Giinther, iii, 

 122.) 



341. DOKMITATOR Gill. 

 (Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 240: type Eleoiris g undid chi Poey.) 



Body oblong, the back broad and elevated; the head broad and deep. 

 Mouth small, anterior; jaws subequal, each with a narrow band of slen- 

 der teeth, those in the outer row movable; no teeth on vomer or pala- 

 tines. Eyes moderate, lateral, wide apart. Head unarmed, almost 



