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lateral line jjreseut auteriorly, endiug above anal. Head 3^; depth 4. 

 D. XII, 19; A. 21; P. 14. L. 5 inches. Coast of Califor-uia, from Point 

 Concepcion southward. 



(Blennius geiitilis Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbila. 1854, 149: Blenrius gcntUis 

 Giinther, iii, 217: Blenn'ms gentilis Steiadachuer, Icbtb. Beitriige, v, 150, 1876.) 



1156. I. p^BBictatus (Wood) J. & G. 



Light olivaceous, with darker reticulations, forming ill-defined ver- 

 tical bars; head with very 'distinct black dots; a series of black dots 

 on each side of lateral line; dorsal with a black blotch in front and 

 with the lateral bars extending on it; anal fin blackish, the rays tipped 

 with white; caudal barred. Body rather deep; head large, obtuse; 

 interorbital si^ace concave, half the diameter of orbit; orbital cirrus 

 as long as dorsal spines, bifid at tip, branched below; a minute nasal 

 cirrus; no canines; gill-openings extending to about lower fourth of 

 base of pectoral, thus narrower than in I. gentilis. Dorsal fin high, 

 little notched, the soft part highest, the spines stiff, 2| in head. Head 

 3f ; depth 3|. D. XII, 15; A. 19. Coast of North and South Carolina. 



{Blennius punciatus Wood, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. iv, 278, 1825: Blennius punc- 

 iatus Giiuther, iii, 228: 1 Blennius hentz Le Sueur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila. iv, 363, 

 1825: 1 JJmjsohlennius hentzi Gill, Cat. Fisli. East Coast N. Amer. 1861, nomcn nudum.) 



404.— HYPtiEUROCIIILUS Gill. 



(Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, 168: type Blennius multifilis Grd.) 



This genus ditfers from Blennius in the restriction of the gill-openings 

 to the sides, the gill-membranes being broadly ,and fully joined to the 

 isthmus, (y, upsilon; -hupov, side; yj'i^-»q, lip; the allusion not evi- 

 dent.) 



1557. H. inailtifiliis. (Grd.) Gill. 



Dusky brown, back and vertical fins with roundish spots, most con- 

 spicuous in the young. Head short, the profile bluntly decnrved; max- 

 illary reaching to below middle of eye; four canine teeth, those in the 

 lower jaw larger than those in npper; su^iraocular cirri very high, each 

 with four smaller ones at base. Dorsal fin not emarginate, the soft rays 

 rather higher than the slender flexible spines; membrane of last ray 

 almost reaching base of caudal; origin of anal in advance of that of 

 soft dorsal; pectorals broad, reaching beyond front of anal; veutrals 

 long, nearly reaching vent. Head 3|; depth about same. D. XIII, 

 14; A. II, 18; V. I, 3. Coast of Texas. {Grd.) 



(Blennius mnlUfilis Girard, U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv. 1859, 27, -pi. sii, f. 6: Blennius 

 multifilis Giiutlier, iii, 562; Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila. 1861, 163.) 



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