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highest ray .84 of the highest spine, length of the base of soft dorsal 

 2.15 in the base of the spinous dorsal; second anal spine 1.4 in the 

 head; soft dorsal naked, first two membranes of the soft anal 

 naked, the third to the sixth with scales on the basal third. Silvery, 

 dorsals dusky. 



GOBIID^. 



13. Hemieleotris levis spec. nov. 



13865 I., type, 40 mm., paratypes 13866, I.; 7484 C, twenty-three, 



largest 48 mm. Pools in Buenaventura. Henn. 

 13867 I., one, 42 mm. Rio Calima. Henn. 



Head 3.5; depth 4.5; D. VH-I, 10; A. 10 or 11 ; scales 34 or 

 35 -|- II, eye i in the length of the snout, 4 in the length of the head, 

 interorbital a little greater than the eye. 



Heavy, little compressed except on the caudal peduncle ; head 

 broad, mouth oblique, the upper lip on a level with the middle of 

 the eye, maxillary reaching just beyond the origin of the eye; teeth 

 in narrow bands, those of the outer series of both jaws considerably 

 enlarged; gill-rakers 5+ I5> the inner ones of the first arch con- 

 siderably heavier, blunt, about one third as long as those along the 

 outer edge of the arch ; head scaled to in front of the eyes ; the 

 scales of the head, breast, belly, and those in front of the dorsal 

 cycloid, those of the sides with a series of strong marginal spines; 

 spinous dorsal rounded, the middle spines longest, some of the 

 spines reaching the soft dorsal in some specimens, usually shorter; 

 posterior rays of the soft dorsal sometimes reaching caudal, usually 

 shorter, the margin of the fin rounded ; caudal rounded, about 3.5 

 in the head ; anal similar to the soft dorsal ; ventrals not reaching 

 the vent ; sides clouded, with indistinct cross-bands forward, be- 

 coming more distinct on the caudal peduncle ; a narrow, faint, dark 

 lateral line, most conspicuous in the male ; sometimes a row of dots 

 along a row of scales on the lower part of the sides ; a dark spot on 

 the shoulder just above the base of the pectoral; dorsal nearly uni- 

 form dusky, without markings. 



