484 REVIEW OF NORTH AMERICAN GOBIID^. 



6. EROTELIS. 



Erotelis Poey, Memorlas de Cuba, ii, 273, 1361 (valenmeiinesi ^^ smaragdus). 



12. Erotelis smaragdus. 



Erotelis smaragdus Cuvier «fe Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xii, 231, 1837 



(Cuba). 

 Erotelis valenciennesi Poey, Mem. tie Cuba, ii, 273, 18G1 Cuba). 



Habitat. — Florida Keys to Cuba ; strictly marine, not ascending rivers. 



7. GYMNELEOTRIS. 



Gymneleotris Bleeker, Eaquisse iVuu Syst. Nat. des Gobiold., 304, 1874, {seminuda) 



13. Gymneleotris seminuda. 



Eleotris seminuda GliutLer, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864, 24, "plate iv, fig. 

 2, 2a" (Pacific coast of Panama). 



Habitat. — Pacific coast of Panama. 



8. SICYDIUM. 



SiCYDiUM Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xii, 168, 1837 (^plumieri). 

 Type Gobius plumieri BIocli. 



This genus, as here restricted, contains probably but a single species, 

 widely diffused in the fresh waters of the West Indies. 



ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES OF SICYDIUM. 



a. [Front teetli of lower jaw not larger than those behind ; a single row of inconspicu- 

 ous papillae on the gum beneath the upuerlip; a large median papilla above 

 the maxillary suture ; a median cleft in the upper lip ; head, 4 to 44 in length 

 (without caudal); depth, 4^ in length ; scales small, reduced ou neck and belly ; 

 diameter of eye contained 6 or 7 times in head, 2 to 3 times in interorbital 

 space; pectorals longer than head; third, fourth, and fifth dorsal spines pro- 

 duced into long ribands; the fourth, which is longest, 2 to 3 times height of 

 body ; color uniform, olive or violet-brown ; dorsals with irregular dark mark- 

 ings ; anal with a dark marginal band, sometimes edged with white.] (Grant.) 



Plumieri, 14. 



14. Sicydium plumieri. 



Gobius plumierii Bloch, Ichthyologia 125, taf. 178, fig. 3. (Martinique; on a 



drawing by Plumier) Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth,, 69, 1801 (copied) ; 



LacdpMe ii, 537, 562, plate 15, fig. 2 (copied), 1798. 

 Sicydium 2>lumierii Cuvier «& Valenciennes,Hist. Nat. Poiss., xii., 168, 1837 (Porto 



Rico); Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, 101; Giinther, Cat. Fish. 



Brit. Mus., iii, 92, 1861 (Barbadoes, West Indies); Poey, Fauna Puerto- 



Riquena, 338, 1881 (Porto Rico); Grant, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1884, 



156; plate xi, fig. 1 (West Indies). 

 Sicydium siragus Poey, Memorias de Cuba, ii, 278, 1876 (Santiago de Cuba). 

 t Sicydium aniillarum Grant, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1884, 157, plate xii, fig. 



3 (Barbadoes). 



Habitat — Fresh waters of the West Indies. 



