ART. 20 NEW AND IMPEEFECTLY KNOWN FISHES — GINSBUBG H 



ELEOTRICA CABLEAE, new species 



Figure 1 



Gobiosoma crescentale Kendall and Radcliffe (not Gilbert), Mem. Mus. Comp 

 Zool., vol. 35, p. 148, 1912 (Chatham Island, Galapagos Archipelago). 



Description of type. — Body moderately elongate, depth 5.2 in 

 length without caudal. Head quite depressed, its depth behind eye 

 2.3 in its length. Mouth somewhat oblique, lower jaw projecting. 

 Maxillary extending to a vertical nearly through posterior margin 

 of eye. The two nostrils in front of eye, one behind the other, both 

 ending in a tubule. Teeth pointed, in bands, outer row of upper jaw 

 markedly enlarged, outer and inner rows of lower jaw moderately 

 enlarged. Anterior margin of tongue with a rather shallow emargi- 

 nation. Ventral 1.4 times in distance from its base to origin of anal, 

 its base under that of pectoral; the two ventrals entirely disconnected; 

 their bases very closely approximated; no interspinal membrane. 



Figure l. — Eleotrica cableae, new species, from the type specimen 



D. 7-12. A. 11. Origins of second dorsal and anal nearly on same 

 vertical; end of anal base under base of third dorsal ray from its end; 

 posterior rays of dorsal and anal nearly, but not quite, reaching base 

 of caudal. Dorsal spines only slightly filamentous, the fourth not 

 quite reaching origin of second dorsal, the fifth just reaching origin. 

 Tip of pectoral about reaching a vertical through vent. 



Five pores ending in tubules; 3 behind eyes, 1 on midline, and 1 

 on a level through the middle of each eye; 1 each at upper anterior 

 corner of opercle ; height of tubules about equahng two-thirds diam- 

 eter of pupil. Four transverse rows of papillae on cheek, the first 3 

 rows under eye, more or less oblique, the fourth vertical, very slightly 

 behind eye; 2 very short rows radiating from eye between third and 

 fourth rows; 2 short longitudinal rows on cheek not so well marked; 

 2 rows on underside of lower jaw continued upward along margin of 

 preopercle, the papillae of the inner row being coarser; a transverse 

 row along anterior margin of opercle, 2 lengthwise rows on opercle, 

 1 above and 1 below; a few small groups of papillae over the opercle; 

 a short transverse row behind eye; a series of short transverse rows 

 along middle of body. 



