111. GOBIESOCID.E — GOBIESOX. 749' 



1146. G. retJcuIafBas (Onl.) J. & G. 



Llj^lit olive, everywhere reticulated with brownish orange; middk' of 

 upper lip black; a light bar between eyes and across cheeks; vertical 

 fins dusky; caudal with two faint brownish bars near its base. TIead 

 nearly as broad as long; mouth wide, its width more than lialf length 

 of head; outer teeth of upper jaw rather strong, close-set, vertical, con- 

 ical, or slightly compressed, a narrow band of small, conical teeth be- 

 hind them; lower jaw with hirger teetli, or 8 of the anterior broad, 

 incisor-lilce, with entire edges, i)laced nearly liorizontally ; lateral and 

 posterior teeth small, as in upper jaw; distance from vent to caudal 

 2| in length of body; sucking-disk as broad as long, 3i in length. 

 Head 2^ ; depth G^. D. 13 ; A. 12 ; V. I, 4. L. inches. I'uget 

 Sound to Monterey; very abundant in rock-pools. 



{Li'pado(iastir rcticidutua Grtl. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila. ISM, 155: Lcpudogasttr 

 mc'dvdricusLivd. U. S. Pac. E. K. Siirv. Fisb. x, 130: Gobiesox mwaitdriciin (juuthev, in, 

 505.) 



1147. C)i. StrilllBOSIBS Cope. 



Bluish plumbeous, fins blackish. Head extremely wide, its width 2% 

 in total length; this width partly produced by a large tleshy mass ex- 

 tending from end of maxillary to end of interopercle*; eye small; profile 

 of Ik^hI descending abruptly from posterior line of orbits. Superior 

 dental series 12 on each side, externally, but the three median teeth 

 conceal some series of which the second three external teeth are a 

 continuation; inferior teeth, 11 on each side; four median incisors hor- 

 izontal and sube<iual; no nmrked canine. D. 11; A. 10; C. 16; P. 21. 

 [Cope.) Hilton Head, South Carolina. 



(Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbila. 1870, 121.) 

 /'/'. Incisors of lower jaw tricuspid. 



ll'!§. Cr. rSicssodoM Kosa Suiitli. 



Dark olivaceous, usually with three broad yellowish cross-bands 

 above; the first across iuterorbital space and cheeks, the second, very 

 wide, across back and front of dorsal fin, the third below middle of 

 dorsal ; some or all of these sometimes wanting. Form much as in 

 G. reticnkxtm ; distance from vent to caudal 2|? in length of body; 

 maxillary extending to below ey(?; incisors of lower jaw tricuspid, not 

 much declined, about S in number; u])per teeth essentially as in O. 

 rctiviil((tus. Dorsal a little longer than anal, coterminous with it. 

 Head 3]; depth (U. D. 11; A. 10. L. 2.^ inches. San Diego to the 

 Gulf of California; locally abundant. 



(Rosa Smitli, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. IbBl, 140.) 



