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2739. HTPSOBLENNIUS HENTZ (Le Sueur). 



Head 3? ; deptli 3. D. XII, 15; A. 18; pectoral \\ in liead; ventral If; 

 gill slit 2\\ eye 4^; maxillary 2|. Orbital tentacle very slender, once 

 forked, 3 in head. Body rather deep; head large, obtnse; iuterorbital 

 space concave, \ the diameter of orbit; orbital cirrus as long as dorsal 

 spines, bifid at tip, branched below; a minute nasal cirrus; no canines; 

 gill openings extending to about lower fourth of base of pectoral, thus 

 narrower than in most related species. Dorsal fin high, little notched, 

 the soft part highest, the spines stiff, 2f in head. Tip of each dorsal spiue 

 with a filiform, articulated, ray-like appendage. Color in spirits, oliva- 

 ceous, back and sides of head and body everywhere covered with brown 

 spots, very irregular in size and shape ; on posterior part of l)ody the spots 

 are larger, and show a tendency to form vertical bars ; cheeks dark ; lower 

 side of head with traces of 3 cross bars; spinous dorsal with an elliptical 

 black spot on membrane of first 3 spines ; soft dorsal and caudal obscurely 

 barred; anal, ventrals, and lower rays of pectorals dusky ; pectorals oliva- 

 ceous, spotted with brown. Coasts of North and South Carolina, south 

 to Indian River, Florida; locally common. (Named for its collector, Dr. 

 Nicholas Marcellus Heutz, "the father of American Araneology.") 

 Blennius jmnctatus, Wood, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1825, 278, Charleston, South 



Carolina (Coll. Prof. Baclie) ; Cuvieb & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xi, 267, 



1836; Gt'NTHEE, Cat., Ill, 228, 1861; not Blenniits inmctatus, Fabricius, 1780, whicli is 



a Stichceus. 

 Blennius hentz* JjB SVEVR, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliila., IV, 1825,363, Charleston, South 



Carolina. (Coll. Dr. Hentz.) 

 Hypsohlennius hentzi, Gill, Cat. Fish. East Coast N. A.., 1861 (nomen nudum). 

 Rypleurochilus punctatus. GiLL, Cat. Fish. East Coast N. A.. 20, 1873. 

 Isesthes punctatus, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 758, 1883 ; Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. 



Nat. Mus. 1883, 616. 

 Isesthes hentzi, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 960, 1883. 



Subgenus BLENNIOLUS, Jordan & Evermann. 

 2740. HYPSOBLEXMUS BREVIPIXMS (Giintlier). 



Head 3i; depth 4. D. XII, 12; A. II, 14; pectoral If in head; ventral 

 If; gill slit 2^; eye 3^ in head; snout 2f in head; maxillary 2+. Orbital 

 tentacle slender, less than eye. Body rather deep, compressed, back not 

 elevated ; anterior profile from first dorsal spine to above eye almost hori- 

 zontal or slightly decurved, from thence to ti]) of snout abruptly decurved; 

 head large, its width not (juite 2 in its length; iuterorliital space narrow, 

 grooved, about equaling pupil; eyes large, placed high and close together. 

 Mouth small, low, the maxillary reaching to pupil; teeth subequal, pecti- 

 nate; no canines; dorsal fin continuous, deeply emarginate, the spines 

 lower than the soft rays, the longest spine about 2| in head; caudal free 



* The following is the substance of the account of " Blennius hentz:" Depth 3J (in total). 

 D. XI, 14; A. 16. Body little elongate; snout very short, but not vertically truncate; 

 eves above angle of month, placed high; gill -slit extending from level of base of pectoral 

 fin to height of eye; teeth equal; dorsal slightly depressed in the middle; pectorals 

 large; a short cirrus above each eye and a smaller one over each nostril. Light bluish 

 ash. mixed with rufous, with numerous irregular black aud rufous spots; dorsal black, 

 with whltisti sjwts; soft dors-al with 5 dark bands; ventrals blackish, with pale bands; 

 caudal with 3 or 4 dark bands. Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. (Le Sueur.} 



