2262 Bulletin 47, United States Natio?tal Museum. 



2596. TTPHLOGOBIUS CALIFORjVIENSIS, Steindacliner. 

 (Blind Goby of Point Loma; Pink- fish.) 

 Head 3i ; depth 5 ; eye 6 ; eye concealed, very small ; D. 11-12 ; A. 12. Ver- 

 tebne 17 + 13. Body siibcylindrical, the males more compressed behind; 

 head very broad behind, its greatest width f its length, Interorbital space 

 a mere ridge ; skin about mouth and eye very loose ; a small papilla in fron t 

 of nasal opening. Lower lip developed as a fold; another fold of skin 

 behind it, bordered with fine cilia ; behind this fold is a row of short, thick 

 papilhe; edge of jaw rounded. Spinous dorsal remote from the soft dor- 

 sal in the male, but connected with it by a low membrane, this membrane 

 absent in the female; soft dorsal much higher than the spinous; caudal 

 broad, rounded; anal very short, inserted under sixth dorsal ray, and 

 coterminous with dorsal ; pectorals little longer than ventrals, 2 in head. 

 Body naked; males with small tubercular plates irregularly placed. 

 Skull highest at its posterior part, depressed forward ; the bones all thick 

 and strong. No lateral crests; a median keel which is lowest behind. 

 Orbit not bounded by any ridges. Two keels diverge from the posterior 

 end of the median keel to the insertion of the suprascapula. Premasil- 

 laries and mandible very long. Teeth of the upper jaw all alike, long, 

 close-set, in a broad l»and, those of the lower jaw in a narrow band, the 

 inner ones apparently larger. Color uniform light pink. Length 2 

 inches. Coast of Lower California, from San Diego southward to Cerros 

 Island ; an extraordinary fish, found attached to the lower side of rocks 

 in shallow water or surf; especially common at Point Loma. 



TijiMogoMus calif orniensis, Steindachnee, Ichth. Beitriige, vni, 24, 1879, False Bay, San 

 Diego, California (Coll. Prof. Essmark) ; Johdan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 639, 1883; 

 Jordan & Eigenmann, I. c, 511. 



Olhonoi^s cos, RosA Smith, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1881, 53, Point Loma, California. 



830. TYNTLASTES, Giinther. 

 Tyntlastes, Gunthee, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1862, 193 {sagitta). 



Body elongate, compressed, covered with small, imbricate, cycloid 

 scales. Head elongate, quadrangular. Mouth wide, oblique, the lower 

 jaw projecting; teeth small, in single series, none on vomer or palatines. 

 Eyes very small, or rudimentary. Dorsal fiii single, continuous, about 6 

 of its anterior rays simple; caudal fin pointed, more or less joined to the 

 dorsal and anal ; ventral fins uuited. Air bladder very small or absent. 

 No pseudobranchiie. Vertebra} 11 +20. Pacific Ocean. (zvvrAddrT^i^, 3, 

 mud-dabl)ler.) 



a. Dorsal and anal each with 15 soft rays ; head 41 in length. BEEVIS, 2597. 



aa. Soft dorsal and anal each with 21 unbranched or soft rays ; head 5 J in length. 



SAGITTA, 2598. 

 2597. TYXTLA.STES BREVIS (Giinther). 

 Head ii ; depth 8. D. VI, 15 ; * A. 15. Eyes minute. Jaws each with a 



* The dorsal formula is apparently VIII, 14 in 2 half-digested specimens taken from the 

 stomach of a Centropomus at Panama. (Gilbert.) 



