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Measurements. — Total length, 69. Standard length, 54.5. Depth, 

 10.4 (19.1); least depth of caudal peduncle, 6.8 (12.5); length of 

 ventral, 11.9 (21.8) ; distance from ventral to anal origins, 17.3 (31.7) ; 

 length of head, 15.6 (28.5); depth of head directly beliind eye, 6.7 

 (12.3); maxillary, 7.2 (13.2); snout, 3.7 (6.8); eyeball, 3.3 (6.1); 

 interorbital, between soft margin, 2 (3.7); postorbital part of head, 

 10 (18.3); antedorsal distance, 19 (34.9) ; caudal, 14.3 (26.2). 



Color. — Head and body prettily marbled with brown and yellow, 

 without definite crossbars. Two yellowish bars on cheek rather 

 faintly indicated. The marbUngs on the back at the base of the first 

 dorsal faintly tend to a cross-streaked arrangement. Ventral aspect 

 plain yellowish. Fins plain, more or less uniformly dusky; caudal 

 with a transverse band of duskj^, more intense than rest of fin, flush 

 with its base and having a convex margin posteriorly. 



Holotype.— V.S.'N.M. 'No. Q5517. Male. Chatham Island, Gala- 

 pagos Archipelago; January 7, 1905; collected on shore by the 

 Albatross. 



Remarks. — Two specimens of this species, taken at the same place, 

 were recorded by Kendall and Radcliffe. Only the type has been 

 studied by me. In preparing a revised account of the genus Gohio- 

 soma, I studied the specimen described above, intending to include it 

 in that genus as a new species. On drawing an illustration of the 

 specimen, Miss Louella E. Cable, after whom I take pleasure in 

 naming the species, called my attention to the ventral fins not being 

 united, showing that the species is not a member of Gohiosoma. 



Family GOBIIDAE 



GOBULUS, new genus 



Genotype. — Gohulus crescentalis (Gilbert) = Gohiosoma crescentalis 

 Gilbert. 



Definition. — Ventral fins united (in the three specimens of the 

 genotype examined the ventrals are united only for about half their 

 extent, at the base, but the distal half of the membrane is apparently 

 torn, the ventrals probably having been united for their whole extent 

 in life) . No interspinal membrane. Entirely scaleless. First dorsal 

 with seven flexible spines. The two dorsals separate. Second dorsal 

 having more rays than the anal, 12 and 11 rays, respectively. 

 Teeth in bands in both jaws, the outer rows enlarged; no canines. 

 Body moderately elongate. Caudal short. Maxillary moderate, 

 not extending past posterior margin of eye. Shoulder girdle without 

 flaps of skin. Tongue entire. Cutaneous papillae on cheek in trans- 

 verse and longitudinal rows; a series of short transverse rows present 

 on middle of body. 



Remarks. — While this new genus agrees with Gohiosoma in nearly 

 all technical characters, it differs radically from the latter as well as 



