G32 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
every wliere scaly. Scales large, ctenoid. Istliinus moderate; gill-clefts 
extended a little foinvard above ; gill-rakers long, riiaryngeal teeth 
setaceous ; an external series broad, flexible, lamelliform. Dorsal si flues 
flexible, usually 7; veutrals separate. Brackish waters in the tropics. 
(Latin, dormitator, one who sleeps.) 
080. 1>. liaaeatHS Gill. 
Brownish-yellow, thickly punctulated with darker, with a dark line 
running along the inidd e of each row of scales, and with a dark ver- 
tical blotch on the scapular region; head apparently with 2 dark longi- 
tudinal bands; dorsal and anal tins with 2 rows of dark spots near the 
base, a fainter one beyond; all the tins with minute dark dots. II end 
3if in length; depth about 3.1. Eye equal to snout. D. VII-1, 10 ; A. I, 
10; Lat. 1. 32. {Gill) Savannah, Ga. ; probably identical with the next. 
(Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila. 186:?, 271.) 
081. D. macBiiJalMS (Bloch.) Gill. — Sleeper. 
Dark brown, with lighter bluish spots; a faint dark stripe along .sides; 
a large dark blue spot edged with black above base of pectorals, and 
a dark streak from eye to angle of month; two dark streaks on side of 
head; branchiostegal membrane blackish; dorsals barred with spots; 
anal dusky, barred with bluish, and with white margin; a dark bar on 
base of pectoral. Caudal a little shorter than head. Eye small, shorter 
than snout. Head .31- in length; depth about 3 (in the adult). D. VII-0; 
A. 10; Lat. 1. 33. L. 12 inches. Eio Grande and southward to Guiana 
and E(iuador; very abundant in brackish waters. (Here described from 
specimens from Mazatlan.) 
{Scieenn rnacitlata Bloch, Ichth. taf. 290, f. 2: Eleoiris inugiloides C. & V. xii, 266: 
Eleoiris maculata Giiuther, iii, 112: Eleofrin sumiiulenius Girard, U. S. Mex. Bound. 
Siirv. Ichth. 1859, 28: Eleoiris somnolenta Giiuther, iii, 557: Eormitator omocyaneus 
Poey, Syn. Pi.se. Cubeiis, 696.) 
342.— EVOStTSBODUS Gill. 
(Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1859, 195: type Erorthoelus hrericeps Gill.) 
Body elongate, covered with ctenoid scales of moderate size. Head 
thifvk* short. Isthmus moderate. Teeth in a single series, with the 
erown emarginate, those of the lower jaw horizontal; no canines. Eiist 
dorsal of G spines; ventral tins united, not adherent to the belly, {eu, 
well; oftOo^., straight; oSou<;, tooth.) 
982. E. cataalHS (Grd.) Gill.* 
Olivaceous, with cross-blotches of darker. Body subfusiform. Head 
* We are iul’oruied hy Professor Gill that this species, or a species suppo.sed to be tbe 
same, is an Eroriltodus. The types are now lost. 
