ART. 20 NEW AND IMPEKFECTLY KNOWN FISHES GINSBUEG 21 



This contention is evidently not in accordance with all the facts in the 

 case. Cuvier and Valenciennes^^ divide the exotic species (from their 

 standpoint) of their large and cumbersome genus Gohius into a number 

 of more or less natural groups, which are plainly indicated in the 

 table of contents as well as in the text. All the groups, except the 

 one under consideration, are not supplied with separate names; but 

 for the latter group they state, on page 97 (quarto ed., p. 73), as 

 follows: "On pourrait reunir sous le nom &'Awaous un petit nombre 

 d'especes de gobies qui ont la tete plus alongee . . ." The group 

 is briefly but aptly characterized, and the name is evidently in Latin 

 form. There is no reason why it should not be acceptable under the 

 code. While the genus was established in a somewhat noncommittal 

 manner, yet the authors introduced a new name in scientific nomen- 

 clature, and the manner of its introduction is not different from some 

 other generic names which are at present recognized. The group of 

 gobies thus named Awaous included originally ocellaris, nigripinnis, 

 pallidus, guamensis, banana, and martinicus. Later, Bleeker^^ desig- 

 nated its type as Gohius ocellaris. The name Awaous, 1837, which 

 antedates both Euctenogohius and Chonophorus, is therefore valid, 

 with Gohius ocellaris as its type species by subsequent designation. 



EUCTENOGOBIUS BADIUS Gill 



Euctenogohius badius Gill, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, vol. 7, p. 47, 1859. 



Description of type. — D. 6-11. A. 11. Scales 55-1 3 K. The body 

 has markedly the aspect of a specimen of similar size in the United 

 States National Museum, labeled Chonophorus taiasica. Mouth 

 moderately oblique, low, terminal, a horizontal line through margin 

 of upper jaw about bisecting cheek below eye. Lower jaw rather 

 thin and narrowly rounded in front, almost angular, very slightly 

 included. Maxillary reaching a vertical slightly past middle of eye. 

 Snout broad and rounded, its profile suggesting the quadrant of a 

 circle. Eye placed high, its upper margin about on the line of the 

 profile. Squamation quite similar to the species of Awaous. Longi- 

 tudinal rows of scales on body markedly regular; 55 oblique rows 

 from upper angle of pectoral to base of caudal, 50 rows when counted 

 on midUne from base of pectoral, ISji scales in an oblique row from 

 origin of anal to base of second dorsal; 17 longitudinal rows from 

 midline of belly, in front of vent, to back. Back in front of dorsal 

 fully scaled; the scales extending nearly but not quite to the eyes, 

 finely ciliated like those on body, gradually growing smaller anteriorly. 

 No scales on cheek and opercle. Some small, partly embedded scales 

 on base of pectoral and similar scales on chest. Belly scaled except 

 a small area on midline directly behind ventrals. Teeth in upper 



" Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 12, 1837. 

 "Arch. Nferland. Sci. Nat., vol. 9, p. 320, 1874. 



