ADDENDA 104. GOBIID.E LEPIDOGOBIUS. 947 



stout, compressed. Snout obtuse, about as long as eye; maxillary 

 reaching front of pupil; lower jaw slightly projecting; teeth slender, 

 in several series, the outer enlarged. Last rays of soft dorsal nearly 

 as long as head; caudal convex, nearly as long as head; pectoral as 

 long as head, none of its rays silk-like. Scales large; head naked. 

 Head 3f; depth 4. D. VI-14; A. 12; scales 26-10. L. 4J inches. 

 Coast of British Columbia. (Bean.) 

 (Beau, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1881, 469.) 



Page 636. After Gobionellus oceanieus add: 



99 (&). O. stigmaticus Poey.Esmeralda. 



Brown; head with 4 vertical broad black bands; 3 on the cheek, 1 

 on the opercle; body with 10 narrow vertical yellow bars; pectorals and 

 caudal with cross-rows of brown spots; ventrals yellow, with black 

 edgings; a small black shoulder spot. Profile bluntly decurved; max- 

 illary reaching past middle of orbit. Teeth slender, in bands, the outer 

 row enlarged. Pectoral as long as head; caudal pointed, half as long 

 as body. Scales ciliated. Head 4; depth 4. D. VI-12; A. 13; Lat. 

 1. 30. (Poey.) Southern Florida (Bean) to Cuba. 



(Smaraydus stigmaticus Poey, Memorias Cuba, ii, 281, 1860; Poey, Syix Pise. Cub. 

 394.) 



The scales in Gobionellus oceanieus vary considerably. Lat. 1. 60 to 80. 



Page 637. After Lepidogobius gulosus add : 

 992 (c). It. tSaaSassinus Jor. & Gilb. 



Body translucent, very thickly covered with very minute, shining- 

 green dots, least numerous on tail; three conspicuous translucent bars, 

 wider than the interspaces, crossing sides immediately behind head ; 

 two narrow brilliantly-green lines running obliquely across cheeks; 

 dorsals whitish, with two or three lengthwise series of large reddish- 

 brown spots; spinous dorsal blackish at base; anal whitish at base, 

 the anterior rays tipped with brilliant white, the greater portion of im, 

 as well as lower part of caudal fin, blackish; upper caudal rays marked 

 with red; veutrals light buff; pectorals translucent. Body elongate, 

 much compressed; caudal peduncle very narrow and short ; head com- 

 pressed, much higher than wide, with very short, acute snout; mouth 

 terminal, wide and oblique; the jaws equal; maxillary reaching vertical 

 from middle of orbit, half length of head. Teeth apparently in a very 

 narrow baud, behind an outer series of strong conical teeth (the inner 

 band cannot be certainly verified in our specimens). Eyes high, sepa- 



