2328 Bullctm //, United States National Micsetcm. 



2659. t'AULARCHUS MiEANDBICUS (Girard). 



(Suck-fish.) 



Head2|; depth 6i. D.IS; A. 12; V.I, 4; vertebrae 13 + 19=32; eye 7i 

 in head; distance from vent to caudal 2f iu length of body; sucking disk 

 as broad as long, ^l in length. Head broad, nearly circular when viewed 

 from above; iutcrorbital width 3 in head; mouth wide, its width more 

 than + length of head; maxillary extending to below eye; outer teeth of 

 upper jaw rather strong, close set, vertical, conical, or slightly com- 

 pressed, a narrow band of small, conical teeth behind them; lower jaw 

 with larger teeth, 6 or 8 of the anterior broad, incisor-like, with entire 

 ed<^es, placed nearly horizontally; lateral and posterior teeth small, as in 

 up})er jaw; nostrils ending in tubes; spine on opercle sharp, but not pro- 

 jecting through the skin; origin of dorsal fin a little in advance of vent, 

 the lin much higher than the anal; vent midway between anal and poste- 

 rior edge of disk; pectorals short and broad, not extending back past the 

 margin of the ventral disk, the 3 lower rays forming part of disk; caudal 

 rounded. Color light olive, everywhere reticulated with brownish orange ; 

 middle of upper lip black ; alight bar between eyes and 1 across cheek; 

 vertical fins dusky; caudal with 2 faint brownish bars near its base. 

 Specimens from red alga> are light pink, mottled with darker, the pale 

 band between eyes very distinct. Length 6 inches. Pacific coast of United 

 States, from Vancouver Island to Point Concepcion ; everywhere very 

 abundant in rock pools; the largest species of Gobiesocidte. {mivandricua, 

 meandering, in allusion to the reticulated streaks.) 



Lepadogaster retieulatus, GuiARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1854, 155, San Luis Obispo, 



California ; name preoccupied. 

 Lepidoijaster mceandricus, GiRARD, Pacific R. R. Surv., x, Fishes, 130, 1858, San Luis 



Obispo, California ; substitute for retieulatus, preoccupied iu Lepadogaster; GUNTHER, 



Cat., ni, 505, 1861. 

 Gohiesox reticulata, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 749, 188:J. 



864. BRYSSETiERES, .Jordan A Evermann. 



Bryssetmres, Jordan & Evermann, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1896, 230 (pinniger). 



This genus difi"ers from Gohiesox solely iu the great development of the 

 dorsal fin, which has 17 rays, the moderate anal having but 8 or 9 ; the 

 vertebriB 10-1-16, as usual in Gohiesox. One species known, {j^puddo^, 

 sea-urchin ; 'iraipoi, comrade, the species living in rock pools with the 

 sea-urchins.) 



2660. BKYSSETJERES PINNIGER (Gilbert). 



Head 2f to 2f; width of body 4i; of head 3 in length. D. 16 or 17; 

 A. 8 or 9. Interorbital width 3^ in head; eye I interorbital width; 

 width of mouth If to If in head. Teeth in upper jaw conic, acute, in 

 several series, the anterior row in front enlarged, uneqtial; in lower jaw 

 the teeth mesially in 2 distinct series, those in middle of anterior row nar- 

 row, entire incisors, those laterally conic, canine-like. No evident oper- 



