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lateral line present anteriorly, ending above anal. Head 3^; depth 4. 
D. XII, 19 j A. 21; P. 14. L. 5 inches. Coast of California, from Point 
Concejicion southward. 
{Blennius gentilis Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1854, 149: Blennius gcniilis 
Giiuther, iii, 217: Blennius gentilis Steiudachiier, Ichth. Beitriige, v, 150, 1876.) 
1156. 1. pnaGictnttas (Wood) J. & G. 
Light olivaceous, with darker reticulations, forming ill-defined ver- 
tical bars; head with very distinct black dots; a series of black dots 
on each side of lateral line; dorsal with a black blotch in front and 
with the lateral bars extending on it; anal fin blackish, the rays tipped 
with white; caudal barred. Body rather deep; head large, obtuse; 
iuterorbital space concave, half the diameter of orbit; orbital cirrus 
as long as dorsal spines, bifid at ti)), branched below; a minute nasal 
cirrus; no canines; gill-openings extending to about lower fourth of 
base of pectoral, thus narrower than in I. gentilis. Dorsal fin high, 
little notched, the soft part highest, the spines stifi', 2| in head. Head 
3f ; depth 3i. D. XII, 15; A. 19. Coast of North and South Carolina. 
(Blennius punciatus Wood, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. iv, 278, 1825: Blennius punc- 
tatus Giinther, iii, 228: 1 Blennius Jientz Le Sueur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. iv, 368, 
1825: 1 Hypsohlennius hentzi Gill, Cat. Fish. East Coast N. Amer. 1861, nomen nuduin.) 
404.— IIYPI.EUKOCHILUS Gill. 
(Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1831, 168: tyi^e Blennius rnultijilis Grd.) 
This genus differs from Blennius in the restriction of the gill-openings 
to the sides, the gill-membranes being broadly and fully joined to the 
isthmus, (u, upsilon; -nksopov^ side; yXtko<;^ lip; the allusion not evi- 
dent.) 
1157. II. iiitiUifilis (Grd.) Gill. 
Dusky brown, back and vertical fins with roundish spots, most con- 
spicuous in the young. Head short, the profile bluntly decurved; max- 
illary reaching to below middle of eye; four canine teeth, those in the 
lower jaw larger than those in upper; supraocular cirri very high, each 
with four smaller ones at base. Dorsal fin not emarginate, the soft rays 
rather higher than the slender flexible spines; membrane of last ray 
almost reaching base of caudal; origin of anal in advance of that of 
soft dorsal; pectorals broad, reaching beyond front of anal; ventrals 
long, nearly reaching vent. Head 3;7; depth about same. D. XlII, 
14; A. II, 18; V. I, 3. Coast of Texas. {Grd.) 
(Blennius rnultijilis Girard, U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv. 1859, 27, pi. xii, f. 6: Blennius 
rnultijilis Gunther, iii, 562; Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, 168.) 
