104. GOBIID^ — DOKMITATOR. 
631 
9’3'§. Po doa’iBU stator (Bl. & Scliu.) Cuv. & Val. 
l>rownisli, marbled witli darker 5 sides of bead with 2 brown stripes; 
lins rose-colored, with series of brown spots ; tM O oblong brown spots 
on base of pectorals. Snout sharp; maxillary reaching to o^iposite 
middle of orbit. Vomerine teeth in a crescent-shaped band. Eye small, 
half width of interorbital space. Caudal ])ednucle very long and rather 
slender. Head 3 in length; depth about oi. D. VI-T, 0; A. I, !); 
Lat. 1. (50. L. 1-2 feet. Texas and southward, entering the rivers. 
i Platijcephalus dormitator Bl. & Sclin. (>0, 1801; EhotrU dormitairix Giiuther, iii, 119; 
Cuv. & Val. xii, 255.) 
340.— EI.E®T£IBS Gronow. 
Tetards. 
(Gohtomorus and GoMomoroides Lac6pede. ) 
(Gronow; Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth. 1801, 65: type Elcoiris gijrinus Cuv. & Val.) 
Body long and low, compressed behind. Head long, low, flattened 
above, without spines or crests, almost eveiywhere scalja Month large, 
oblique, the lower jaw projecting. Teeth in jaws villiform, fixed; no 
teeth on vomer or palatines. Preopercle and branchiostegals unarmed. 
Eyes small, high, anterior; isthmus broad. Dorsal fins well apart, the 
first of about 7 flexible spines; ventrals separate. Scales small, cycloid, 
(50-100 in a longitudinal series. Troiiical seas, entering fresh waters. 
{rj/.eor, bewildered.) 
9'3'9. E. pryn’BDaBBS Cuv. & Val. — Tetard; Sleeper. 
Brownish; vertical fins, with brown dots; two darker stripes behind 
the orbit. Body elongate, moderately compressed, of nearly equal 
dei)th throughout. Caudal peduncle long and deep. Head rather broad 
and flattened above, its scales minute. Month large, very oblique; 
maxillary reaching. beyond the vertical from centre of orbit. Eye small, 
half width of iuterorbital space. Head 3.1 in length; depth about 5. 
D. VI-I, 8 ; A. I, 8 ; Lat. 1. about GO. Brackish waters, from Texas 
southward. 
{1 Gobiiis pisonis Ginelin, Syst. Nat. 1788, 120:!; Cuv. & Val. xii, 220; Guntlier,-iii, 
122 . ) 
341.— DOKyilTATOIl Gill. 
(Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbila. 1862, 240: type Eleotris giindhtclu Poey.) 
Body oblong, the back broad and elevated; the head broad and deep. 
Mouth small, anterior; jaws snbequal, each with a narrow band of slen- 
der teeth, those in the outer row movable; no teeth on vomer or pala- 
tines. Eyes moderate, lateral, wide apart. Head unarmed, almost 
