111. gobip:socid.e — gobiesox. 
749 
1146. G. reticiiSattas (Grd.) J. & G. 
Light olive, everywhere reticulated with brownish orange; middle of 
upper lip black; a light bar between eyes and across cheeks; vertical 
tins dusky; caudal with two faint brownish bars near its base. Head 
nearly as broad as long; month wide, its width more than half length 
of head; outer teeth of upper jaw rather strong, close-set, vertical, con- 
ical, or slightly compressed, a narrow band of small, conical teeth be- 
hind them; lower jaw with larger teeth, G or 8 of the anterior broad, 
incisor-like, with entire edges, ])laced nearly horizontally; lateral and 
posterior teeth small, as in upper jaw; distance from vent to caudal 
2f in length of body; sncking-disk as broad as long, in length. 
Head 2^; depth G.L H. 13; A. 12; Y. I, 4. L. G inches. Puget 
Sound to Monterey; very abundant in rock-pools. 
{Lcpailogasier reticuJutus Grd. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1854, 155: LepadogasUr 
mwavdricus Gt(\. U. 8. Pac. E. E. Surv. Fish, x, 130; Gohicsox ma'andrictiti GiintheT, iii, 
.50.5.) 
BUT. G. stB’Bimosits Cope. 
Pluish plumbeous, tins blackish. Head extremely wide, its width 2f 
in total length; this width partly j^rodnced by a large fleshy mass ex- 
tending from end of maxillary to end of interopercle; eye small; profile 
of head descending abruptly from i)osterior line of orbits. Superior 
dental series 12 on each side, externally, but the three median teeth 
conceal some series of which the second three external teeth are a 
continuation; inferior teeth, 11 on each side; four median incisors hor- 
^izontal and subequal; no marked canine. D. 11; A. 10; C. IG; P. 21. 
{Cope.) Hilton Head, South Carolina, 
(Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1870, 121.) 
hh. Incisors of lower jaw tricuspid. 
Ills. G. rlaossodOEi Eosa Smith. 
Dark olivaceous, usually with tliree broad yellowish cross-bands 
above; the first across interorbital space and cheeks, the second, very 
wide, across back and front of dorsal fin, the third below middle of 
dorsal; some or all of these sometimes wanting. Form much as in 
(r. reticidatiis ; distance from vent to caudal 2f in length of body; 
maxillary extending to below eye; incisors of lower jaw tricuspid, not 
much declined, about 8 in number; upper teeth essentially as in G. 
reticnlatus. Dorsal a little longer than anal, coterminous with it. 
Head 3j^; depth GL D. 11; A. 10. L. 2i inches. San Diego to the 
Gulf of California; locallj" abundant. 
(Eosa Smith, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1681, 140.) 
