104. GOBIID.E LEPIDOGOBIUS. 637 



coast of United States, extremely abimdaiit southward. It lives in 

 shallow creeks and lagoons, where it tills the bottoms with holes and 

 tunnels. 

 (Cooper, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1833, 111.) 



3ir.— I.EPSO««<>KIU§ Gill. 

 ( Ct/clogobius Steiudacbuor. ) 



(Gill, Aun. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y. 1859, 14: type Gohhis gracilk Grd.) 



Scales small, cycloid; dorsal spines 7 or 8; otherwise essentially as 

 in Gobins. Pacitic Ocean. [k-:-c3uc;^ scaly; Gohiiis.) 



n. Head scaly. (Lcpidogohius.) 



091. L.. graciais (Grd.) Gill. 



Yery pale olive, with roundish blotches of rusty red on back and 

 sides; vertical fins mottled with reddish; distal half of all tins and 

 under side of head blackish, especially in the males. Body elongate, 

 long and low, little compressed, covered with thin, smooth, half-im- 

 bedded scales. Head scaly above and on cheeks and opercles; mouth 

 oblique; jaws equal; maxillary extending to below middle of eye. 

 Teeth in rather broad bands, the outer teeth enlarged, es[)ecially in 

 u[)per jaw; outer teeth in lower jaw somewhat movable. Eyes large, 

 l)laced high, the interocular space very narrow; opercle adnate to scapu- 

 lar arch from upper edge of pectoral upward. Fins rather high, the 

 dorsal spines slender, flexible and exserted at tip; pectorals short, not 

 reaching so far as tips of ventrals; ventrals inserted slightly behind 

 axil of pectorals; basal sheath of ventrals large. Head 4; depth 6h. 

 D. VII-IS; A. 15. L. 5 inches. Pacific coast of United States; com- 

 mon northward, in rather deep water. 



(Gohiiis (jrac'iHs Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1854, 134, not of Jouyna: Gobiiis 

 Icpidus Girard, U. S. Pac. R. R. Snrv. Fish. 127: (iobius Icpklnn Gilutlicr, iii, 78.) 



aa. Head naked. {Kuc}jclo)johiun'^ VAW.) 



!)5>r>. Ia, BBCwHjcrryi (Grd.) Gill. 



Olivaceous, mottled with darker; spinous dorsal and anal tipped with 

 dnsky; second dorsal and caudal checkered; pectorals transparent; 

 head with some dusky markings. Body short, chubby, little com- 



*Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 330: type GoMus newberryi Grd. "The 

 j^onus Eiiciidof/obius is very distinct from Lepidogobius, differing especially in the 

 lobust, snbfnsiforni body, the size and position of the eyes, wider forehead, shape of 

 Jaws, and especially the position of the ventral fins." (Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila. 1863, 264.) {ev, well; hvhXo?, cycloid; Gobiui<.) 



