111. GOBIESOCID/E GOBIESOX. 749 



1146. G. retiCHlsitoss (Grd.) J. & G. 



Light olive, everywhere reticulated with brownish orange; middle of 

 upper lip black; a light bar between eyes and across cheeks; vertical 

 lins dusky; caudal with two faint brownish bars near its base. Head 

 nearly as broad as long; mouth wide, its width more than half length 

 of head; outer teeth of upper jaw rather strong, close-set, vertical, con- 

 ical, or slightly compressed, a narrow baud of. small, conical teeth be- 

 hind them; lower jaw with larger teeth, 6 or 8 of the anterior broad, 

 incisor-like, with entire edges, placed nearly horizontally; lateral and 

 posterior teeth small, as in upper jaw; distance from vent to caudal 

 2f in length of body; sucking-disk as broad as long, 3 in length. 

 Head 2$ ; depth G. D. 13; 'A. 12; V. I, 4. L. G inches. Puget 

 Sound to Monterey; very abundant in rock-pools. 



(Lcpatloijasti-r rcticulatus Grd. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1854, 155: Lcpadogaster 

 mYU?drics Grd. U. S. Pac. R. K. Surv. Fish, x, 130: Gobiesox ma'-andr'tcxti Giiuther, iii, 

 505.) 



II -IT. 45. strtsnsosias Cope. 



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Bluish plumbeous, fins blackish. Head extremely wide, its width 2f 

 in total length; this width partly produced by a large fleshy mass ex- 

 tending from end of maxillary to end of interopercle; eye small; profile 

 of head descending abruptly from posterior line of orbits. Superior 

 dental series 12 on each side, externally, but the three median teeth 

 conceal some series of which the second three external teeth are a 

 continuation; inferior teeth, 11 on each, side; four median incisors hor- 

 izontal and subequal; no marked canine. D. 11; A. 10; C. 16; P. 21. 

 (Cope.) Hilton Head, South Carolina. 



(Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat, Sci. Phila, 1870, 121.) 



lib. Incisors of lower jaw triciispid. 



I3i. G. rhessodOBi Rosa Smith. 



Dark olivaceous, usually with tliree broad yellowish cross-bauds 

 above; the first across interorbital space and cheeks, the second, very 

 wide, across back and front of dorsal fin, the third below middle of 

 dorsal; some or all of these sometimes wanting. Form much as in 

 G. reticulatus ; distance from vent to caudal 2f in length of body; 

 maxillary extending to below eye; incisors of lower jaw tricuspid, not 

 much declined, about 8 in number; upper teeth essentially as in G. 

 reUciilatus. Dorsal a little longer than anal, coterminous with it. 

 Head 3^; depth 6J. D. 11; A. 10. L. 2 inches. San Diego to the 

 Gulf of California; locally abundant. 



(Rosa Smith, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1881, 140.) 



