946 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
cross-bars and blotches; fins mostly spotted or barred. Body elongate. 
Head large, low, not very blunt. Mouth large, very oblique, the man- 
dible strongly projecting; the maxillary extending to below middle of 
])upil, 2 in head. Teeth in few series, those of the outer row very 
long, slender, and curved. Scales small, cycloid, imbedded. Head 
and nape scaleless. Dorsal spines slender, the longest somewhat fila- 
mentous; caudal long; upper pectoral rays not silk-lihe; ventrals in- 
serted directly below pectorals. Head 3J; depth 5. D. VI-15; A. 10; 
Lat. 1. 42. L. 3 inches. Florida to Texas. 
{Gohius gitlosiis Grd. U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv. Icdith. 1859, 26.) 
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987 (b). G. boScosoBiia J. & G. 
Pale olivaceous, mottled with darker; male with a black humeral 
spot; fins barred, their edges tinged with orange. Form, size, and 
coloration of Boleosoma ohnstedi. Head not very blunt. Mouth mod- 
erate, horizontal, the lower jaw included; the maxillary reaching nearly 
to middle of eye. Teeth small, slender, in narrow bands, the outer 
somewhat larger. Scales moderate, ctenoid. Dorsal spines not fila- 
mentous; caudal pointed, slightly longer than head; upper rays of 
pectorals not silk-like. Head 4; depth 4J. D. VI-12; A. I, 11; Lat. 
1. 33. L. 2 inches. Pensacola, Fla. 
(.Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 295.) 
987 (c). €r. stigrnaatiiriBS Goode & Bean. 
Light'olive, sides marbled with whitish; a dusky spot on opercle and 
one below eye; sides with 5 dusky blotches along median line, the last 
one a round bla(*k spot at base of caudal; vertical fins with wavy black- 
ish bars; paired fins plain. Form of G. hohosoma; head not very blunt; 
snout little shorter than eye; lower jaw not shorter than upper. ]Max- 
illary extending to below middle of eye, 2f in head. Teeth strong, 
curved, those of the upper jaw in a narrowband, two of the teeth some- 
what canine-like; lower teeth large, in a single irregular series. Scales 
large, those on the nape reduced, all ctenoid. Dorsal spines slender; 
fins not elevated ; caudal as long as head ; upper rays of pectoral not 
silk-like. Head 4; depth C. D. VI-12; A. 12; Lat. 1. 30. L. 2 inches. 
W est coast of Florida. 
(Goode Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 418.) 
987 (4). tr. iiicliolsi Bean. 
Olivaceous; scales edged with dusky; top of spinous dorsal black; 
second dorsal and caudal spotted with dark; ventrals black. Body 
