2380 Bulletin ^7, United States National Museum. 



nearly uniform height, all very slender and flexible, the tips almost fila- 

 mentous; highest spine i length of head; highest soft ray 1| in head; 

 anal lower than dorsal, its longest ray very slightly less than I length of 

 head; length of caudal peduncle more than ^ its height, about equaling 

 the diameter of orbit; caudal about equaling pectoral, H in head; ven- 

 trals long, the inner ray much the longest, 1^ in head, not quite reaching 

 vent. Color light greenish olive, somewhat mottled; sides with irregular 

 dark bars formed of spots, these extending on the fin; skin everywhere 

 finely punctate; dorsal dark olive, the spinous part darker at tip; anal 

 blackish, with paler edge; veutrals dusky; pectorals and caudal olive. 

 Gulf of Mexico, in deep water. Three specimens known, the largest 3 

 inches long, taken from the stomach of a Red Snapper, at Pensacola. 

 (Named for Silas Stearus.) 



Blennius stearnsi, Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 300, Pensacola Snapper 

 Banks. (Type, No. 29669, U. S. Nat. Mus. Coll. Jordan &. Stearns.) 



2727. BLEXXICS FAYOSUS, Goode&Bean. 



Head 3|; depth 4f. D. XII, 18; A. II, 20. Body comparatively elon- 

 gate and compressed ; anterior profile moderately decurved; head nearly 

 ^ longer than deep ; snout very short and blunt; mouth large, horizontal; 

 jaws even; maxillary reaching posterior margin of orbit, its length 2J in 

 head. Each jaw with a long, curved, posterior cauine; the canines of 

 lower jaw largest. Preorbital f diameter of eye, which is 3| in head, and 

 equals more than twice iuterorbital width. An extremely long and slen- 

 der supraocular cirrus, trifid to the base, the longest branch nearly as long 

 as the head ; no nuchal cirri. Gill membranes forming a rather narrow fold 

 across the isthmus. Dorsal low, continuous, the spines very slender and 

 flexible, the longest i as long as tlie head ; the longest soft ray f as long 

 as head; the last ray slightly joined to base of caudal; caudal f as long 

 as head; anal rather high; pectorals |^ as long as head; only the straight 

 part of lateral line developed. Color faded, brownish, finely reticulated, 

 a series of obscure bluisli blotches along the sides; front and sides of head 

 marked with very distinct blue, reticulating lines surrounding honey- 

 comb-like hexagonal interspaces ; top of head with many small blue spots ; 

 dorsal with black dots and streaks ; a black spot bordered with whitish 

 between the first and second dorsal spines ; anal with oblique blue streaks, 

 the fin margined with dusky, tips of rays whitish; l)ase of pectorals with 

 blue reticulations. The whole body was probably reticulated with blue 

 in life. Gulf of Mexico. Known from 2 specimens collected at Garden 

 Key, Florida, by Gustav Wiirdemann; they are 3f inches and 3 inches 

 long, respectively, (favosus, honeycombed.) 



Blennim favostis, Goode & Bean, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 416, Garden Key, Florida 

 (Type, No. 2629, IT. s. Nat. Mus. Coll. Gustav Wiirdemann); Jordan & GU.BERT, 

 Synopsis, 961, 1883. 



2728. BLEXNIUS PILICORNIS, Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



Head 4| with caudal; depth H. D. XII, 21 or 22; A. 23 or 2L Snout 

 obtuse, the upper profile very oblique. A strong curved canine in each 

 jaw. Orbital tentacle filiform, with several smaller ones at base. Inter- 



