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Caudal rounded and small, free from dorsal and anal. Pectoral large, 

 broad, tips of lower rays free, and median rays longest. Ventrals 

 jugular, each with three graduated rays with more or less free tips. 



Color in alcohol pale brownish, whitish below, and a trifle darker on 

 top of head. Latter, and back, with many minute pale brown specks 

 or dots. Fins all transparent or brownish-white. Iris whitish, pupil 

 slaty. 



Color in life white, below brighter, above more translucent and 

 marked on back alternately with pale brown and white. Fins trans- 

 parent whitish, dorsal and caudal hardly darker. Iris pale greenish- 

 white, becoming silvery marginally, and pupil black. 



Length 2 inches. 



Type No. 30,621, A. N. S. P. Hailer's Rock, Florida Keys. June 

 23, 1904. H. W. Fowler. 



Only a single example, the type, was taken in very shallow water on 

 the sandy shore of Hailer's Rock. 



(Named for Mr. Clarence B. ^loore, of Philadelphia, well known for 

 his valuable researches in Archaeology, and through whose interest in 

 Zoology the expedition to the Florida Keys was realized.) 

 • 

 BLEXNIIN.E. 



82. Blennius cristatus Linnaeus. Kock Fish. 



Color in life olive-brown above, saddles darker than ground-color. 

 Body speckled or minutely spotted with deeper brown and whitish, 

 markings becoming pale plumbeous below. Lines of dorsal brown. 

 Edge of fins whitish. Caudal tinted a little with pale green. Ab- 

 domen dilute greenish-white and translucent. Fins all very pale 

 transparent brownish, and pale markings dusky or whitish. Lower 

 surface of head pale dusky. Eye brown. Crest on head dull deep 

 red with dusky spots. 



A larger example with dilute carmine tints to margins of dorsals and 

 upper edge of caudal, posterior margin of latter and tips of dorsal 

 radii whitish. A whitish-plumbeous spot at base of each anal ray and 

 also at tip of each, submarginally dusky. Spots and lines on body 

 dilute plumbeous or pearly-blue. Bars on caudal dusky. Occipital 

 filaments reddish. Axil of pectoral dusky. Brownish bars on lower 

 half of pectoral. Iris brown. 



Small examples have brownish lines on dorsal more pale brownish. 



Found very abundant in all the tide-pools on Hailer's Rock and 

 West Cud joe's Key. In such places they are often found completely 

 entrapped, darting quickly about when disturbed, however, soon find- 



