342 MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM. 



opinion that " the Eocene Eocottus may be a Gobioid, and Lepidocottus also may 

 belong to the same group. "^^ 



Genus Eocottus A. S. Woodward. 

 15. Eocottus veronensis (Volta). 

 1796. Gobius barbatus G. S. Volta, Ittiolit. Veronese, p. 48, PI. XI, fig. 1. 

 1796. Gobius veronensis G. S. Volta, ibid., p. 51, PL XI, fig. 2. 

 1818. Gobius veronensis H. D. de Blainville, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., Vol. XXVII, 



p. 358. 

 1835. Gobius macrourus L. Agassiz, Neues Jahrb., p. 291 (name only). 

 1838-39. Gobius macrurus L. Agassiz, Poiss. Foss., Vol. IV, pp. 12, 203, PL XXXIV, 



figs. 3, 4. 

 1876. Gobius macrurus F. Bassani, Atti Soc. Veneto-Trent. Sci. Nat., Vol. Ill, 



p. 180. 

 1901. Eocottus veronensis A. S. Woodward, Cat. Foss. Fishes Brit. Mus., Pt. IV, 



p. 581. 

 1911. Eocottus veronensis C. R. Eastman, Mem. Car. Mus., Vol. IV, No. 7, p. 385, 

 PL XCIX, fig. 1 (figure inverted). 

 Type. — Imperfect fish; Paris Museum of Natural History. 

 The best preserved examples of this species, which have thus far been brought to 

 light, are those contained in the British and Carnegie Museums. Three specimens 

 are listed in the published catalog of the latter institution, and we have now to 

 record the accession of three additional specimens, smaller than the others, but 

 fairly well preserved. These have received the catalog numbers: 5325, 5326, 

 5327. 



Suborder Blennoidei. 



Pelvic fins jugular or mental, each of one to four rays, the first of which may be 

 spinous; parasphenoid sending up a wing on each side, which is joined by suture to 

 the frontals. 



Family Blennid^. 



Elongated fishes with stout caudal pedicle; snout not produced. Most of the 

 abdominal vertebrae with downwardly directed transverse processes bearing the 

 small ribs. Dorsal fin occupying nearly the whole of the back, often subdivided; 

 anal fin also much extended; caudal fin rounded or tapering. Scales small or 

 absent, and no bony scutes. 



" Regan, C. T. "The Osteology and Classification of the Tclostean' Fishes of the Oidrr .Sclero- 

 parei." Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., (8), Vol. XI, 1913, p. 181. 



