150 THE SHORE FISHES. 



Measurements of largest specimen were as follows: — Head 3.8 in body 

 without caudal, 4.19 in total length; depth 6.15 in body without caudal, 6.76 in 

 total length; eye equal to interorbital, 10.5 in head; breadth of head at its 

 junction with nape 1.9 in length of head; maxillary 3.00 in head; dorsal XII, 

 25, the first three dorsal rays free, without membrane, the 4th provided with a 

 membranejoiningittobaseof 5th; A. 11,28; scales in lateraUine 12+4+26 = 42. 



Both lips are strongly fringed, anterior nostrils are placed on edge of pre- 

 orbital, with long tubes, which, when depressed, reach nearly to orbit; opercle 

 with about ten rays or cilia. 



Color in alcohol: — (specimen was somewhat dried). Head above white, 

 a narrow, wavy dark line extending from back of eye downward and backward 

 to edge of preopercle; another fainter line from lower front of eye, downward 

 and backward to behind corner of mouth; body straw colored; a large quadrate 

 brown spot on nape, from this a series of brown spots extend downward across 

 interopercle ; back, along base of dorsal, white; a small brown spot on each side 

 of nape; six small quadrate brown spots at the base of the dorsal, the last one 

 being above the 18th scale of the straight portion of the lateral line; pectoral 

 with two faint dusky cross-bars, one near base, other near middle of fin, rest of 

 fin whitish; other fins yellowish translucent. 



The second specimen has, D. XII, 24; A. II, 26; scales 12 + 4 + 26; it has 

 general straw color of preceding, markings similar; seven quadrate spots along 

 base of dorsal ; a faint spot at base of caudal ; some of the scales on intermediate 

 spaces margined with brown ; some of the scales along the lateral line, anteriorly, 

 punctulate with brown ; pectoral without cross-bars. 



Thesmallestspecimenhas, D.XII, 24; A. 11,27; scales 12 + 4 + 26; colora- 

 tion similar to preceding; seven quadrate spots; no dusky spots on interspaces 

 between quadrate spots; no punctulations along scales of lateral line; pectoral 

 plain. 



These specimens have a longer head and more dorsal rays than given in 

 description of D. pectoralis, but seem to agree with tlie latter in other respects. 



BLENNIIDAE. 



Enneanectes carminalis (Jordan & Gilbert). 



.Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 189S, pt. .3, p. 23.50. 

 Triplerygium carminale Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 4, p. 362. 



One specimen Ij inches long from Acapulco. 

 Dorsal III-XII-9; anal II, 16; scales 33. 



