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THE SHORE FISHES. 



Gobiosoma crescentale Gilbert. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1892, 14, p. 557. Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 189S, pt. 3, 

 p. 2259. 



Two specimens 2 and 2? inches long from Chatham Island, shore. M. C. Z. 

 29603 (1 specimen). 



Proportional measurements of the two specimens. 



Color, gray, mottled with brown; sides of head with alternate brown and 

 pale bars; opercle pale with faint dark spots; pectoral light gray with a faint 

 crescent-shaped dark bar at base, preceded by a brighter area; dorsal and anal 

 gray, with a blackish edge to anal membrane anteriorly; caudal dusky with a 

 faint indication of crescent at base; ventral pale. The smaller specimen is 

 similarly colored with the markings more distinct. Some of the brown markings 

 on the body, especially anteriorly, tend to form irregular pairs of cross-bars. 



DACTYLOSCOPIDAE. 



Gillelus rubellulus, sp. nov. 



Plate 6, fig. 3. 



Type No. 65510, U. S. N. M., 2x6 inches long, from Chatham Island. 



Lower jaw somewhat projecting; maxillary reaching to a line from poste- 

 rior margin of orbit; both lips with a small fringe; anterior nostril small, tubu- 

 lar; opercular fringes well developed, nine in number; teeth in each jaw in a 

 band in front, narrowing posteriorly; anterior portion of lateral line running 

 along base of dorsal (one row of scales between it and base of fin) and descending 

 downward to middle of side opposite last un jointed ray. 



The rays of the ventral fin are connected by a thin transparent membrane. 



Color in alcohol: — ground color pale straw tinged above with pinkish; 

 head, back, and sides thickly spotted and blotched with pearly white; lips 



