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Family BATRACHOIDID^E. 



52. OPSANUS TAU (Linnaeus). 



Represented by numerous specimens. 



Family GOBIESOCIM). 



53. GOBIESOX VIRGATULUS Jordan and Gilbert. 



This species is represented by two specimens. 



Family BLENJN 1 1 1 ).K. 



54. HYPLEUROCHILUS GEMINATUS I Wood). 



This species is represented by two specimens, a male (multifilis) 

 with a supraorbital cirrus equal in length to twice the diameter of 

 the eye, and the anal II, 17 instead of II, IS," and a female (gemi- 

 iiatus) with a supraorbital cirrus shorter than the eye, and 16 rays 

 in the anal, which is apparently without spines. 



55. HYPSOBLENNIUS IONTH AS (Jordan and Gilbert). 



There are three specimens of this species in the collection, two 

 males and a female. The males have the long supraorbital cirrus 

 and otherwise correspond very closely to Jordan and Evermann's 

 description 6 , but have I). XII, 14, A. II, 14 and 16 instead of D. 

 XII, 14 or 15, A. II, 15 or 16. The female does not agree so closely, 

 having no evident cirrus, while the dorsal is XII, 14 and the anal I 

 15 (possibly II, 14) instead of D. XII, 13 or 14, A. II, 13 or 14. 



56. HYPSOBLENNIUS HENTZ ( Le Sueur). 



There are two specimens of this species in the collection. The 

 male, which corresponds very closely to the description given by 

 Jordan and Evermann c , having the dorsal XII, 14 and the anal 

 II, 15 instead of D. XII, 15, A. IS, is quite evidently Wood's Blennius 

 punctatus;' as he mentions the bifurcated orbital cirrus. The female 

 agrees with Le Sueur's original description of Blennius hentz, where 

 the cirrus is spoken of as short and presumably simple and the fin ray 

 formula given as D. XI, 14, A. 16, which is nearer that of the female 

 at hand (1). XII, 14, A. \>, 15) than that of the male, In other 

 words, the discrepancies between the two descriptions given by 

 Jordan and Fvermann are the differences between the male and 

 female, analogous tot hose found in Hypsoblt nnius ionthas, t he descrip- 

 tion in the text and that given by Wood referring to the male, and 

 that of Le Sueur referring t<> the female. 



a Jordan and Evermann, Bull. 17, LT. S. Nat. Mus., p. 2385. 



'< Idem, |>. 2388. 



•' Idem, j). 2390. 



^Journ. Acad. Nat. Sri. I'hila., vol. i, L825, |>. 279. 



