118. OPHIDIID^ OPHIDIUM. 
793 
12*20. O. joseplii Grd. 
Pale olive, sprinkled all over with brownish specks; belly and sides 
ot head plain ; vertical tins edged with black. Eye moderate, 4 in head ; 
maxillary extending to opposite its posterior margin; origin of dorsal 
at some distance behind base of pectorals. Body shorter and pectorals 
more elongate than in 0. taylori. Head G. Saint Joseph’s Island, Texas. 
{Girard.) 
{Ophidian josephi Girard, U. S. Mex. Bound. Siirv. Ichtb. 1859, 29.) 
1221. O. liolba'ooki Putnam. 
“ Inner barbel nearly two-thirds length of the outer; outer barbel equal 
to the distance from the center of the eye to the point of the operculum ; 
maxillary reaching to the posterior border of the eye. Length of the 
eye equal to the distance from its posterior margin to the ridge of the 
preopercnlnm. Head one-sixth of the total length of the fish. Dorsal 
and anal with a black margin. Gill-rakers 4. Air-bladder long, pointed, 
without a foramen.” L. 6 inches. Key West, Florida. {Putnam.) 
(Putuam, Proc. Bust. Soc. Nat. Hist. 1874, 342.) 
1222. O. tayloB’i Girard. 
Light olive; head and upper parts covered with conspicuous round 
dark, olive-brown spots; chin dusky; vertical fins edged with black. 
Head large, little compressed, naked; top of head with conspicuous 
mucous pores. Dorsal fin beginning over the pectorals; outer ray of 
ventrals little more than half length of head; inner about one-third. 
Air-bladder ovate, not contracted; seven gill-rakers below the angle of 
the arch ; pseudobranchim developed. Ko spine on the end of the 
snout. Outer teeth in both jaws considerably enlarged, the upper 
largest. Head G; depth 8. L. 12 inches. Coast of California; not 
rare. 
(Girard, U. S. Pac. E. R. Surv. Fisb. 1859, 138.) 
aa. Outer teetb iu jaws movable ; bead scaly above. {Leptophidium^ GiW.) 
1223. O. profuiidoi’uiBi (Gill) J. »fe G. 
Light rufous ; A^ertical fins margined with black. Body very slender; 
scales regularly arranged in quincunx order; scales on head extending 
to forehead, opercles, and cheeks; snout high, projecting, armed with a 
concealed spinous hook ; teeth villiform, separated by an interval from 
an outer row of longer, slender, movable teeth; eye longer than snout, 
3i in head; lateral line obsolete behind ; vent toward end of first third 
*Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbila. 1833, 210: type Leptophidium profundorum Gill. 
{XETtroi, sleuder; 6q)i8iov, Opbidium.) 
