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rated by a. very narrow interorbital space. Dorsal spines slender, the 
tilth slightly produced, reaching base of third soft ray when depressed. 
Last rays of dorsal and anal reaching slightly past base of caudal. 
Caudal lanceolate, the middle rays produced, 2| in body. Upper pec- 
toral rays not silk-like. Ventral longer than head, reaching beyond 
front of anal. Body covered with very small cycloid scales, which are 
readily deciduous; head naked. Head 3J; depth 4|. D. VII-IG; A. 
15. L. 1^ inches. Charleston Harbor. This species is closely allied 
to L. emblematicus Jor. & Gilb., from Panama. 
(Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882.) 
Page 638. Instead of Gohiosoma alepidotum read: 
903. O. bosci (Lac.) J. & G. 
To the synonomy add: 
{Gohius hose Lac^pede, Hist. Nat. Poiss. ii, 555, 1800. The name alcpidotus was given 
by Schneider in 1801 as a substitute for this personal name.) 
Page 638. Gohiosoma molestum is not distinguishable by us from G. 
bosci. It may therefore be suiipressed. 
Page 638. After Gohiosoma bosci add: 
903 (6). G. ios Jor. & Gilb. 
Light olive ; back, sides, and upper fins speckled with dark olive ; 
caudal with 3 or 4 dark olive cross-bars ; lower fins pale. Body long 
and slender, moderately compressed ; head long and low, anteriorly 
]»ointed, its profile scarcely convex ; mouth very large, oblique, the 
jaws subequal ; maxillary reaching middle of cheek, its length more 
than half head ; teeth slender, in moderate bands, the outer somewhat 
enlarged. Eye as long as snout, 4^ in head. Body entirely naked. 
Pins low, the spines slender; caudal short. Head 4^; depth 6§. D. 
VI-15; A. 12. L. 2 inches. Puget Sound; one specimen known, from 
the stomach of a Hexagrammus asper. 
(Jor. & Gilb. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882.) 
Page 639. After Tyatlasies sagiUa add : 
350 (5).— lOGLOSSlJS Bean, 
(Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 419: type loglossus calliimis Bean.) 
Body elongate, strongly compressed, of equal depth throughout, cov- 
ered with very small, mostly cycloid, scales. Head short, compressed, 
not keeled above; mouth large, oblique, the lower jaw projecting; 
teeth in narrow bands or single series, some of them canine; no teeth 
