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large; simiu very short, shorter than pupil; eye .">.\ in head; maxillary 

 1 in head, rather narrow; lower jaw included; vomer with ."> rather 

 large teeth. Longest dorsal spine about as long as head, slightly 

 higher than soft rays; caudal long, the middle rays scarcely shorter 

 than head; longest anal rays 1 ' in head; pectoral little more than half 

 head. Scales moderate. Head ."..',; depth 4f. D. 25; A. lo; Lat. 1. 

 07. Two specimens known, taken from the stomach of a lied Snapper 

 at Pensacola, Fla. 



(Jor. & Gilb. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 290.) 



Page 030. In key, under j/, after the word "series," add '-in lower 

 jaw." 



Page 632. Darmitator Uneatus is apparently identical with J). macu- 

 littitN, and may be suppressed. The genus Dormitator is best distin- 

 guished from FAeotris by the numerous long, lamelliform appendages of 

 the narrow lower pharyugeal bones. In Philypnus, Culiu*, and Eleotrix 

 the bones are broader, and without appendages. 



341 (6). CULIUS Blecker. 



I'.li-ckfv, Bocroo, 411: type Elfotrix niyer Q. & G. = Pceciliafusca Bl. &, Schn. 



This genus is distinguished from Elcotris by the presence of a stout 

 hook-like spine, directed downwards and forwards, near the angle of 

 the preopercle. Gill-openings extended forwards. Teeth lixed. Spe- 

 cies rather numerous in brackish and fresh waters of tropical regions. 

 (Name of Indian origin.) 



9*1 (b). . amblyopsis Cope. 



Dull olivaceous; everywhere dusted with dark points; finely barred 

 with paler; a black streak from eye to upper edge of gill-opening; a 

 lilackish spot above base of pectoral. Form of Eleotris gyrhnts. Max- 

 illary reaching middle of eye, 1 >: in head; teeth of the inner series in 

 each jaw largest. Scales larger than in other species of the genus. 

 Mead .'.,: depth .V<. D. VI, 0; A. 8; Lat. 1. 48. South Carolina to 

 West Florida and Surinam. 



, Trims. Am. I'liil-.s. s,>r I'hila. 1870, 47:5.) 



I'age li.'ii'. (lohius I'utnliix <lrd. proves to be a true Gobi/is, and is 

 identical with (iohin* xoimrntur. It should, therefore, be ei'ased. The 

 upper ra\s ol' the pectoral are silk-like. Mead .'{.',; depth 4,\. J). 

 VI-10; A. 1, i>; Lat. 1. .').'> to .'5S; 1'J rows between dorsal and aiuil. It 

 is very abundant about rocks and ballast heaps from Florida to Texas. 



