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his work and of the opportunity to include his identifications in this 

 report. These specimens will be fully treated some time in the future 

 in a big work on American gobies that he has been preparing for a 

 number of years, and I shall not attempt to make a key to this group. 



Family ELEOTRIDAE 



Genus EROTELIS Poey 



Erotelis Poet, Memorias sobre la historia natural de la isla de Cuba, vol. 2, 

 p. 273, 1860. (Genotype, E. valenciennesi 'Poey=Eleotris smaragdus Cuvier 

 and Valenciennes.) 



EROTELIS SMARAGDUS (Cuvier and Valenciennes) 



Eleotris smaragdus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des poissons, 

 vol. 12, p. 231, 1837 (Cuba). 



U. S. N. M. No. 123145, 1 specimen, Point Macollo, TJ.S.S. Niagara, April 19, 

 1925. 



Genus MICROPHILYPNUS Myers 



Microphilypnus Myers, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 68, No. 3, p. 134. 1927. 

 (Genotype, Microjphilypnus ternetzi Myers.) 



MICROPHILYPNUS TERNETZI Myers 



Microphilypnus ternetzi Myers, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 68, No. 3, p. 134 

 1927 (Cano de Quiribana, near Caicara, Venezuela). 



Genus DORMITATOR Gill 



Dormitator Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 14, p. 240, 1862. (Geno- 

 type, Eleotris gundlachi Poey.) 



DORMITATOR MACULATUS (Bloch) 



Mapo 



Sciaena maculata Bloch, Ichthyologie, ou Histoire naturelle des poissons, pi. 299, 

 fig. 2, 1785 (West Indies) ref. copied). 



The following collections were made by F. F. Bond : 



26 specimens, 18 to 63 mm. in standard length, Rfo Cumboto, near Ocumare, 

 January 5, 1938. 



1 specimen, 14 mm., coastal lagoons, 15 km, north of Maracaibo, April 6, 1938. 



9 specimens, 13 to 21 mm., Rfo Curiepe at Higuerote, February 2, 1939. 



53 specimens, 13 to 26 mm., Eio Guaiguaza, 3 km. west of Puerto Cabello, 

 January 15, 1938. 



2 specimens, 10.5 and 19 mm., Rfo Noguera at Noguera, January 13, 1938. 



10 specimens, 12.5 to 30 mm., Rfo Borburata, 3 km. east of Puerto Cabello. 



1 specimen, 15 mm., Rfo Cambur, tributary of Lago de Valencia, January 13, 

 1938. 



Genus GOBIOMORUS Lacep^de 



Gobiomorus Lacep^de, Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 2, p. 583, 1800. 

 (Genotype, Gobiomorus dormitor Lacep^de.) (Ref. copied.) 



