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mouth large, with the cleft wide and nearly horizontal. Teeth subcylin- 

 drical, in a nniform row, behind which, in front, there is a broad baud of 

 villiform teeth; on the palatine bones, uniserial and obtusely subcylin- 

 drical like those of the jaws; the palatine rows are parallel; vomer eden- 

 tulous. Gill memljrancs confluent below, free from the isthmus. Dorsal 

 and anal long, confluent with caudal; ventrals slightly in advance of pec- 

 torals, with 2 or 3 rays. (Gill.) Matanzas, Cuba; 1 specimen, examined 

 by us in the National Museum, {ocellatus, having eye-like spots.) 



Chcmopsis ocellatus, Poey, in Gill, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., vni, 1867, 143, Matanzas, 

 Cuba. (Coll. Poey.) 



897. LUCIOBLENNIUS, Gilbert. 



Lueioblennivs, Gilbert, Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus. 1890, 103 {alepidotus) . 



Body very elongate, wholly naked; gill membranes broadly united, free 

 from isthmus; dorsal fin single, extending along the entire back, its ante- 

 rior half spinous. Ventrals in front of pectorals, I, 2. First two anal 

 rays spinous. Last rays of dorsal and anal joined to caudal. Teeth conic, 

 not movable, in jaws and on vomer and palatines. Lateral line not de- 

 scribed. A strange genus, evidently very close to Chamopsis. {Lucius, pike ; 

 Bhnnius, blenny. ) 



2760. LUCIOBLENMUS ALEPIDOTUS, Gilbert. 



Head 3 in length; depth 3i in liead. D. XVIII, 32; A, II, 30. Body 

 much compressed, slender throughout, the head rather deeper and wider 

 than body. Snout long, depressed, and rather wide, the anterior profile 

 descending very gradually. Month nearly horizontal, the lower jaw pro- 

 truding, the gape extending to much Itehiud orbit, the entire pbysiognomy 

 remarkably pike-like. Snout 4 in head; maxillary If; eye4f to 5. Teeth 

 in a villiform band in upper jaw, the outer series slightly larger; in lower 

 jaw in a single series laterally, widening into a patch anteriorly, the outer 

 enlarged; a few teeth only on vomer; palatines with a long and rather 

 broad patch similar to those in jaws. Dorsal fin beginning on the nape 

 in advance of middle of opercle, the fin uniformly low, extending the 

 whole length of back, the posterior ray joined by membrane with the 

 caudal ; the spines and rays are similar iu appearance, flexible and simple, 

 none of the soft rays branched; the spines are more slender, and show no 

 joints, the articulations l»eing present in small numl)er on all the soft rays; 

 the highest ray is less than diameter of orbit; anal and caudal rays simi- 

 lar to those of soft dorsal; caudal short, rounded; origin of anal mid- 

 way between tip of snout and end of caudal fin, its first 2 rays spinous; 

 ventrals under opercular margin, of 1 spine and 2 well-developed rays, 

 nearly i as long as head; pectorals narrow, of apparently uubranched 

 rays, about i as long as head. Color light oliA'aceous, with 11 verti- 

 cal dark l)lotches on sides, most of which divide to form on middle of 

 sides double vertical bars; top and sides of head with dark cloudings, 

 and with numerous black specks of varying size; middle of sides and base 



