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This species was described from examples (now 14 in number) in 

 the Academy, obtained from T. J. Craven at Hilton Head, South 

 Carolina. As these examples are still in fair preservation, they have 

 been examined and compared with the accounts of other writers 

 published subsequently. Cope gives D. 11 and A. 10. His series 

 shows D. usually 11 and occasionally 12, A. usually 9, occasionally 

 10 and rarely 8. He says, ''Color in spirits bluish-lead color; fins 

 blackish." In this respect the body is now nearly uniform, though 

 the fins show dark cross-bars or blotches. Evermann and Bean 

 record four examples from Indian River at Titusville, Florida.^^ They 

 give D. 11 and A. 8. More recently, Evermann and Hildebrand 

 record an example Ij inches long from St. Georges Island, Maryland, 

 and another 2 inches long from Gloucester Point, Virginia.'- They 

 give D. 10, A. 8. 



On December 15, 1915, Mr. R. M. Abbott secured an example 

 45 mm. long at South River. It has D. 11 and A. 9. When cap- 

 tured it was clinging to an oyster, dredged up in the river, and was 

 received in fresh condition. Its coloration was so much in agreement 

 with that given for G. virgatulus Jordan and Gilbert,^^ described from 

 Pensacola, and later recorded by Jordan" from Egmont, Florida, 

 that a careful comparison convinces me they are identical, and that 

 G. virgatulus Jordan and Gilbert must be merged in the synonymy. 

 There is absolutely nothing in their description not applical)!e to my 

 specimens. The known range of G. strumosus will then extend from 

 the upper Chesapeake Bay and Maryland to Pensacola, Florida. 

 My entire series range from 30 to 77 mm., including additional 

 material, also from South River, recently received. 



Gobiosoma bosc Lacepede. 



Rhodes River and oyster bar at mouth of South River. 

 Pseudopleuronectes americanus (Walbaum). 



Rockhall, Annapolis and Rhodes River. 

 Achirus fasciatus Lacepede. 



Bohemia Bridge, South and Rhodes Rivers. 



Chasmodes bosquianus (Lacepede). 



Chesapeake Bay near mouth of West River, and both sexes from 

 oyster l:)ar at mouth of South River. 

 Opsanus tau (Linne). 



Rhodes River. 



11 Rep. U. S. F. Com., 1896 (1898), p. 248. 

 •2 Proo. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXIII, 1910, p. 163. 

 1'^ Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, p. 293. 

 ■^ L.c, 1884, p. 149. 



