222G Bulletin 4.7, U^iited States National Museum. 



of caudal, partly or wholly snrronuded by a broad ring of dark brown; 

 li.'ad 8lato color," white below; 3 dark bars exteudiiig forward and down- 

 ward from eye to mouth; a, triangnlar spot on opercle; dorsals, candal, and 

 pectorals finely barred with black ; a chocolate bar on base of ventral ; anal 

 margined with white; an irregular black l>ar on shoulder and upper half 

 of pectoral ; everywhere more or less blotched with darker, the blotches 

 at times forming numerous bars across the back. Dominica, Fort de 

 France, Martinique, St. Kitts, (Eigeumaun &. Eigenmann.) Not seen by 

 us. Apparently very close to GoUus lyricus, if not the same. (Named for 

 its discoverer, Prof. Samuel Garman.) 



Gobius garmani, Eigenmann & Eigemann, Bull. Cal. Ac. Sci. 18S8, 61, Dominica, Fort de 

 France, Martinique, St. Kitts. (Coll. Samuel Garm.an.) 



2550. OOBIUS ZEBRA, Gilbert. 



Head R;.depth 4^; eye 3i in head. D. VI-IL or 12; A. 9. Body not 

 elongate, the snout short, the mouth oblique, with maxillary reaching 

 below middle of orbit. Mouth small, the maxillary 2+ in bead. Interor- 

 bital space very narrow. Teeth in upper jaw in a narrow band or double 

 series, the outer row enlarged and si)aced; lower jaw apparently with a 

 single series, similar to the outer row in the upper jaw. Scales cycloid, 

 large, wanting on nape and a narow strip along Ijase of spinous dorsal. 

 Color cherry red, head and sides with 15 blue cross bars, a little narrower 

 than interspaces, encircling the body posteriorly, lacking for a short dis- 

 tance on belly and under side of head; on upper side of head and nape 

 these bars run obliquely forward and downward, but elsewhere vertical; 

 on middle of each interspace a very narroAv blue line, becoming indistinct 

 on lower part of sides ; on cheeks the blue bars are connected by narrow 

 cross lines, forming blue reticulations surrounding round spots of the 

 ground color. Length of types + inch. Two specimens from Albatross 

 Station 2989, west coast of Mexico, in 36 fathoms, {zebra, zebra, from the 

 stripes.) 



Oobiux zebra, Gilbert, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus. 1890, 73, Albatross Station 2989, west Coast 

 of Mexico. 



Subgenus EUCTENOGOBIUS, Gill. 



2551. GOBIUS POEYI, SteindacLner. 



Head broad and llattish; depth (>! in total length ; eye 4^, 11 in interor- 

 bital width, longer than snout; snout short and decurved. D. VI-9; A. 9; 

 scales 40. Maxillary extending to below middle of eye. Some of the dor- 

 sal spines produced and filamentous, the third 1^ times depth of body; 

 caudal short, rounded. Two rows of ill-defined blotches on upper half of 

 body; dorsals and caudal sharply barred, anal and ventrals dusky (male). 

 A small round dark spot at base of caudal. (Steindachner.) Barbados; 

 not seen by us. (Named for Prof. Felipe Poey.) 



Oobius poeyi, Steindachner, Ichtliyol. Notizcn, vi, 44, 1867, Barbados; Jordan & ErGEN- 

 MANN, I.e., 497. 



