Jordan and Evcrmann. — Fishes of North America. 2247 



7, none of them elongate, the membrane of last spine reaching base of first 

 soft ray ; soft anal rays of moderate height, 1^ in head, the tips of last 

 rays reaching base of caudal, the fin similar to soft dorsal but lower; 

 caudal long, apparently rounded posteriorly, longer than head (mutilated 

 in our specimen); ventrals and pectorals reaching vent. Scales cycloid, 

 small, absent on belly, nape, and on sides in front of fourth dorsal spine. 

 Color in spirits, light olive, the fins dusky; a conspicuous round black 

 spot on shoulder, \ size of eye, its posterior margin denser black. Resem- 

 bling Zah/pnus emblematicus, ditt'ering in its larger scales and diflerent color- 

 ation. A single specimen, about 2 inches long, from Lower California, in 

 7 fathoms. (Gilbert.) (kukAoj, circle, cycloid; Aettzj, scale.) 



MicrogoMus cyclolepis, Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1891,74, Albatross Station 3020, 

 Lower California. 



2579. ZALYPN'US EMBLEMATICUS (Jordan & Gilbert). 



Head3|; depth 5. D. VII-16; A. 17; scales about 65. Anterior part 

 of body naked; teeth of upper jaw in one series; body elongate, com- 

 pressed, heaviest forward; depth 5 in length; head 3|; snout short, 

 rather broad, acute in profile; mouth terminal, very oblique; gape wide, 

 its length nearly i head; maxillary reaching to opposite middle of pupil; 

 lower jaw projecting. Teeth in lower jaw partly in 2 series in front, 

 forming a single row laterally; anterior teeth in both jaws strong, in- 

 curved. Eyes very large, about ^ of head; snout less than orbit. Scales 

 extremely small, cycloid, scarcely increasing in size toward caudal pedun- 

 cle; head and anterior part of body to front of dorsal fin naked; a narrow 

 naked strij] along base of anterior i- of spinous dorsal. Dorsal spines very 

 slender and weak, some of tlui middle ones usually prolonged, sometimes 

 reaching nearly to the base of caudal, sometimes little elevated; second 

 dorsal and anal similar to each other, the rays high, the last when de- 

 pressed nearly reaching to the base of caudal; caudal pointed, a little 

 longer than head. Light olivaceous; above thickly punctate with pale 

 dots ; sides very thickly covered with golden-green specks ; back with 6 

 pairs of golden-green spots on each side of the dorsal fin, each nearly as 

 large as pupil; sides of head and anterior half of body with wide streaks 

 and bars alternately of purplish blue and golden bronze; those on cheek 

 longitudinal; those on opercle extending obliquely upward and back- 

 ward, those on l>ody vertical; first dorsal dusky, second dorsal with 

 about 3 series of light-blue spots; anal pale; caudal yellowish green be- 

 low, dusky above, a very conspicuous narrow bright-red streak from the 

 lower end of the base to the tiji of the fifth or sixth ray from the bottom, 

 thus crossing the rays obli(|ueIy; ventrals bluish. In spirits, plain light 

 olive, withasilvery crossbar behind pectorals. Length 3Mnches. Panama; 

 known only from the original types. {ejufiXrjuoc, a banner, from the high 

 dorsal. ) 



Gobius emblematicus, Jordan & Gilbert, Bull.U.S.Fish Comm.1881, 330, Bay of Panama. 

 Lepidogobius emblematicug, Jordan & Eigenmann, I. c, 505. 



