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with darker, the jaws, opercles, and brauchiostegals blackish. First 

 dorsal mostly dusky translucent, somewhat barred. Second dorsal and 

 anal plain dusky. Caudal dark blue, with two loirgitudinal stripes of 

 bright red. Pectoral finely barred or reticulated with blackish and 

 pale. Head and belly yellowish. Female specimens probably duller 

 and paler. 



Head V^ (of); depth ^ (6). D. YI-11; A. I, 10. Lat. 1. 27. 



Body ratner elongate, moderately compressed. Head rather short, 

 the profile very obtuse, descending abruptly from before the front of 

 the eye to tlie snout. Eyes small, placed high, about as long as snout, 

 and about U in head. Mouth nearly horizontal, much below level of 

 eye; the maxillary extending to beyond pupil, 2^ in head ; jaws subequal; 

 teeth strong, in one series in each jaw ; in the lower jaw about 4 shortish, 

 canine-like teeth behind the other teeth; anterior teeth of lower jaw 

 small; of upper jaw rather large. 



Gill opening not continued forward above opercle. 



Fir.st dorsal with two or three spines filamentous, the longest reaching 

 past the middle of the second dorsal, which is of moderate height and 

 similar to the anal; caudal long and pointed, one-fourth longer than the 

 head. Pectoral as long as head, about reaching front of anal. Upper 

 rays of ])ectorals not silk-like. Ventrals somewhat shorter than head, 

 tlieir insertion below front of pectorals. 



Scales large, rough, those on nape, pectoral region, and belly reduced 

 in size; head naked. 



Gohim wUrdemamii Girard is possibly identical with this species, 

 although the scales are said to be smaller, and the teeth much smaller 

 than in G. lyricus. The original types of G. lyricm, as of G. wiirde- 

 manni, came from Brazos Santiago, Tex. The types of the latter are 

 now lost. 



107. Gobius boleosoma sp. iiov. P. (30860.) 



Subgenus (Jorypliopterns Gill. 



Color in life: Male deep olive green, mottled Avith darker; middle of 

 side with 4 or 5 vague darker blotches. A jet-black spot above gill 

 opening, on side of back. Head mottled, dusky below ; usually a dark 

 bar below eye. Dorsals tipped with bright yellowish, each crossed by 

 numerous narrow, somewhat oblique, interrupted bars or series of spots, 

 these being of a rich reddish brown color. Caudal barred with black, 

 its upper edge tinged with orange. Anal nearly plain, with a slight 

 orange tinge. Ventrals bluish-black, their edges whitish. 



Female paler and duller in color, more mottled, the black spot 

 above gill opening obsolete or nearly so ; a dark spot at base of caudal. 

 Upper fins barred, as in the male. Lower fins mostly pale, tinged with 

 orange. 



Head 4 (5 in total) ; depth 4J (oj). D. VI-12; A. 1, 11. Lat. 1. about 

 33. 



