2388 Btdletin /7, United States National Museum. 



veutrals and anal nearly blackisli in males, the base of the anal with a 

 pale streak. Females more distinctly blotched, with a black spot in front 

 of dorsal and white spots on middle of sides; head lacking the pale bars 

 and black spots, but much mottled with brown and whitish ; a very dis- 

 tinct blackish l)lotch on front of spinal dorsal; pectoral and caudal pale, 

 a dark blotch on base of pectoral. Length about 4 inches. Monterey to 

 Cape San Lucas; common southward in rock pools. Here described from 

 specimens from Angol Island, Gulf of California, from Cape San Lucas, and 

 from Monterey and San Diego. {ge)itilis, related.) 



Blennius gentilis, Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1854, 149, Monterey, California. Types, 



Nos. 690 and 785 (Coll. A. Cassidy; No. 489, Lieut. Trowbridge); Girard, Pac. R. K. 



Stirv., X, Fishes, 113, pi. 25.% fig. 4, 1858; GiJNTHER, Cat., m, 217, 1861. 

 Isesthes gentilis f Steindachner, Ichth. Beitrage, v, 150, 1876; Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 



1882,350; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 956, 1883; JoRDAN,Proc. U. S.Nat. Mus. 1882, 



349. 



2737. HTFSOBLENNIUS STRIATUS (Steindachner). 



Head 4 to 4^; depth 4f to 5. D. XI or XII, 17; A. 19; P. 15; V. I, 3. 

 Snout steep, and slightly concave in older examples; interorbital narrow, 

 equal to i eye; origin of dorsal a little before the edge of preopercle; 

 second and third dorsal spines equal to the distance from tip of snout to 

 edge of preopercle; dorsal and anal free from caudal; pectoral reaching 

 nearly to front of anal. Color yellowish below, sides brownish, irregular 

 dark-brown cross bars on back and sides; toward the caudal are rows of 

 spots, 4 or 5 wider cross bars of dark brown or violet ; a dark blotch from 

 the third to the fifth dorsal spine, behind which are irregular longitudinal 

 dark stripes; anal edged with white, behind which runs a violet line; 

 pectoral and caudal spotted ; a dark oval spot behind eye ; a brown line 

 from first dorsal spine to eye. Panama (Steindachner), Avhere specimens 

 were also taken by Dr. Gilbert, none of these showing posterior canines, 

 although Steindachner notes the presence of a small canine in 1 speci- 

 men, {strialus, striped.) 



Blennius striatus, Steindachner, Ichth. Beitriige, v, 15, 1876, with plates, Panama. 

 Isesthes striatus, Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. 1882, 111. 



273S. HYPSOBLENNIUS lONTHAS (Jordan & Gilbert). 



Head 3f to 4 (4J to 4| in total) ; depth 3J to Si (3f to 4f ). D. XII, 13, or XII, 

 14; A. II, 13, or II, 14. Body rather deep, moderately compressed, the back 

 little elevated. Head short, blunt, but less so than in H. punciatus ; the pro- 

 file prominent above the eye, thence descending abruptly but not vertically 

 to the tip of the snotit; length of snout 3i in head. Mouth small, low, its 

 cleft largely anterior, the short maxillary scarcely reaching past the front 

 of the eye, 4 in head. Eyes large, placed high, 5 in head, the interorbital 

 space about I their diameter. Female (ionthas) Avith the orbital cirrus low, 

 scarcely larger than nasal cirrus, Avhich is about equal to diameter of pupil. 

 Teeth moderate, equal; no posterior cauines. Gill opening extending 



