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throat and belly faintly rosaceous; iris bluish with reddish 

 points radiating about the pupils." 



The largest specimen recorded is '2\ inches long. 



Genus CHASMODES Ouv. & Val. 



Body oblong, compressed, naked; head triangular in profile, 

 the snout somewhat pointed; mouth large, with lateral cleft, 

 the maxillary usually, but not always, extending to beyond eye; 

 premaxillaries not protractile; teeth in a single series, long and 

 slender, comblike, confined to the front of each jaw; no canines; 

 cirri very small or wanting; gill openings very small, their lower 

 edge_above the middle of the base of the pectorals; lateral line 

 incomplete. Fins as in B 1 e n n i u s. American. The species 

 with smaller mouth approach H y p s o b 1 e n n i u s , which 

 genus is not far separated from C h a s in o d e s .. 



825 Chasmodes bosquianus (Lac^pede) 

 Banded Blennij 



flleiinins buftquianus LACEPEDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss. II, 493, pi. 13, fig. 1, 1.800, 

 South Carolina. 



Jtlcnnjns /tholis MITCHILL, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. I, 374, 1815. 



Chasmodes lioxrimnis GTJNTHEB, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. Ill, 229, 1861. 



Chasmodes bosquiunits CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss. XI, 29"), 

 pi. 327, 1836; DE KAY, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes. 151, pi. 24, fig. 73, 1842, 

 New York Harbor; JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 756, 

 1883; JORDAN & EVERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. Ill, 2394, 1898. 



The depth of the body is contained three and one half times 

 in its length which is three and one half times the length of the 

 head. Orbital tentacle very minute or wanting; maxillary ex- 

 tending to rather beyond eye; interocular space very narrow 7 , 

 not concave. Dorsal fin not emarginate, the spines slender. 

 Dorsal joined to base of caudal; anal free. D. XI, 19; A. 20. 



Color (in i ) olive green, nvith about nine horizontal narrow 

 blue lines, these somewhat irregular and interrupted, converg- 

 ing backwards; opercular membrane and a broad stripe through 

 middle of spinal dorsal deep orange yellow; anal fin dark, the 

 rays with white membranaceous tips; ? dark olive green, 

 reticulated with narrow pale green lines, and with several broad 

 dark bars, which are more distinct posteriorly; vertical fins 



