9GO CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY - IV. 



anal. Head 3; depth 4. D. XIII, 17; A. 19; L. 4 inches. Monterey 

 to Cape San Lucas. 



< I'.lriniiiix i/iiililis Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phi la. 1854, 149: Blennius fjenlilis 

 (iiintlirr, iii. 'J17: niennius gentilis Steind. Ichth. Bcitr. v, 150, 1876; Jordan, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 350; not Iscsthes gentilis of the present work, page 757, -which is 



;/illiirti.) 



Page 758. After Isesthcs punctatm add : 

 1 156 (6). I. hcntzi (Le S.) J. & G. 



Light bluish-ash, mixed with rufous, with numerous irregular black 

 and rufous spots ; dorsal black, with whitish spots ; soft dorsal with 5 

 dark bands; ventrals blackish, with pale bands; caudal with 3 or 4 

 dark bands. Body little elongate; snout very short, but not vertically 

 truncate; eyes above angle of mouth, placed high; gill-slit extending 

 from level of base of pectoral fins to height of eye ; teeth equal ; dorsal 

 slightly depressed in the middle ; pectorals large ; a short cirrus above 

 each eye and a smaller one over each nostril. Depth 3 (in total). D. 

 XI, 14; A. 16. Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. (Le Sueur.) 



(Blennius hcntz Le Sueur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. iv, 363, 1825.) 



1 1 56 (c). I. ionthas J. & G. 



Clear olive-green with traces of darker bars, everywhere densely 

 freckled with small round blackish spots, smaller than the pupil, these 

 very small on sides of head ; a golden area behind eye, followed by a 

 blackish crescent; two dark bars separated by a yellowish area below 

 eye; fins all olive-green. Body rather deep. Head short, but less blunt 

 than in I. punctatus. Mouth small, the maxillary scarcely reaching 

 eye; teeth subequal ; orbital cirrus low, scarcely longer than nasal 

 ein us, which is about as long as pupil. Gill-slit half head, its lower 

 edge just below middle of pectoral. Dorsal continuous, its spines low 

 and not very stiff; its soft rays free from caudal, llead 4; depth 

 3*. D. XII, 1-1; A. 10. JVnsacola Bay. 



(Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1682, 299.) 



1156 (</). I. scrutator J. &. r,. 



Deep olive green, nearly uniform; a golden bloleh behind eye, fol- 

 lowed by a daik . i.-cml ; two dark bars separated by a yellowish area 

 below eye; fins plain dusky greenish. Body rather deep, compressed; 

 head short, very blunt; mouth very small; teeth subequal; orbital 

 cirri very long, reaching front of dorsal, about half length of head; 

 gill-slit liA in head, its lower edge just below middle of pectoral. 

 Dorsal scarcely emarginate, its spines stiff; the soft rays slightly joined 



