482 REVIEW OF NORTH AMERICAN GOBIID^. 



The numerous specimens of this species have all been taken from the 

 stomachs of the Red Snapper, Lutjanus aya, at Pensacola. All of the 

 known specimens have been obtained by Mr. Silas Stearns. 



2. GOBIOMORUS.* 



GOBiOMORUS Lac6pMe, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ii, 61)9, 1798 (dormitor, etc). 

 Philypnus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hiat. Nat. Poiss., xii, 255, 1837 (dormitator), 

 Lembus Giintber, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mas., i, 505,1859 {maciilatm). 



GoBiOMORUS Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 571 (restricted to dornii- 

 tor). 



Type Gohiomorus dormitor Lacep^de. 



2. Gobiomorus lateralis. 



Philypuii lateralis Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, 123 (Cape San Lucas). 



Habitat. — Pacific coast of America, from San Jos6 to Panama. 



3. Gobiomorus dormitor. 



Goiiomonis dormitor Lac^pfede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ii, 599, 1798 (from a drawing 

 by Plumier). 



Batrachus guavina Blocb & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 44, 1801 (based on Guavina 

 of Parra). 



Platycephalus dormitator Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., IHOl, 60 (Mar- 

 tinique). 



Habitat. — Kio Grande to Martinique, in fresh waters. 



4. Gobiomorus longiceps. 



Eleotris longiceps Giintber, Proc. Zoo). Soc, Lond., 1864, 151 (Nicaragua). 

 Habitat. — Lake Nicaragua. 



3. DORMITATOR. 



Prochilus Cuvier, Regue Animal, ed. i, 1817 (niugiloides), (preoccupied). 

 Dormitator Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1862, 240 {gundlachi^=maculatu8). 

 Type Eleotris gundlachi Foey =Sciwna maculata Bloch. 



5. Dormitator maculatus. 



Scicena maculata Bloch, Ichth., tab. 299, f. 2, 1790 (West Indies). 



Eleotris mugiloides Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xii, 226, 1837 



(Martinique, SurinanO. 

 Eleotris sima Cnv. & Val., xii, 232, 1837 (Vera Cruz). 

 Eleotris somnolentus Girartl, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1858, 169 (Rio 



Grande). 

 Eleotris omocyaneus Poey, Memorias, ii, 269, 1860 (Havana). 

 Dormitator gundlachi Poey, Syn. Pise. Cub., 396, 1868 (Cuba). 

 Dormitator lineatus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 271 (Savannah). 



* The Eleotridinat have been made the subject of a special paper (A Review of the 

 American Elootrulime, in Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci., Phil., 1885, 66-80) by Eigenmann and 

 Fordice. For the synonymy and characters of the species of Gobiomorus, Dormitator, 

 Guavina, Eleotris, Erotelis, and Gymneleotris the reader is referred to the paper in ques- 

 tion. Only the outlines of the synonymy are here presented. 



