ADDENDA 104 GOBIID^ LEPIDOGOBIUS. 
947 
stout, compressed. Snout obtuse, about as long: as eye; maxillary 
reaching- front of pupil; lower jaw slightly projecting; teeth slender, 
in several series, the outer enlarged. Last rays of soft dorsal nearly 
as long as head; caudal convex, nearly as long as head; pectoral as 
long as head, none of its rays silk-like. Scales large; head naked. 
Head Sf ; depth 44. D. VI-14 ; A. 12 ; scales 26-10. L. 4^ inches. 
Coast of British Columbia. {Bean.) 
(Beau, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1881, 469.) 
Page 636. After Gohionellus oceanicus add: 
9§9 (Z>). Cr. stigmaticiis Voej.— Esmeralda. 
Brown; head with 4 vertical broad black bands; 3 on the cheek, 1 
on the opercle; body with 10 narrow vertical yellow bars; pectorals and 
caudal with cross-rows of brown spots; ventrals yellow, with black 
edgings; a small black shoulder spot. Profile bluntly decurved; max- 
illary reaching past middle of orbit. Teeth slender, in bands, the outer 
row enlarged. Pectoral as long as head; caudal pointed, half as long 
as body. Scales ciliated. Head 4; depth 44. D. VI-12; A. 13; Lac. 
1. 30. (Paey.) Southern Florida {Bean) to Cuba. 
{Smaragdus stigniatieus Poey, Memorias Cuba, ii, 281, 1860; Poey, Syn. Pise. Cub. 
394.) 
The scales in Gohionellus oceanicus vary considerably. Lat. 1. 60 to 80. 
Page 637. After Lepidogohius gulosus add: 
992 (c). L. tlfiaBassinus Jor. & Gilb. 
Body translucent, very thickly covered with very minute, shiuing- 
greeu dots, least numerous on tail ; three conspicuous translucent bars, 
wider than the interspaces, crossing sides immediately behind head; 
two narrow brilliantly-green lines running obliquely across cheeks; 
dorsals whitish, with two or three leugthwise series of large reddish- 
brown spots ; spinous dorsal blackish at base ; anal whitish at base, 
the anterior rays tipped with brilliant white, the greater portion of fin, 
as well as lower part of caudal fin, blackish; upiier caudal rays marked 
with red; ventrals light buff; pectorals translucent. Body elongate, 
much compressed; caudal peduncle very narrow and short; head com- 
pressed, much higher than wide, with very short, acute snout; mouth 
terminal, wide and oblique; the jaws equal; maxillary reaching vertical 
from middle of orbit, half length of head. Teeth apparently- in a very 
narrow baud, behind an outer series of strong conical teeth (the inner 
band cannot be certainly verified in our specimens). Eyes high, sepa- 
