9G0 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 



anal. Head 3§; depth 4. D. XIII, 17; A. 19; L. 4 iuches. Monterey 

 to Cape San Lucas. 



(Blennius gentUis Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phi]a. 1854, 149: Blennius gentilw 

 Giiuthcr, iii, 217: BUnnius gentilis Steind. Icbth. Beitr. v, l.'iO, 1876; Jordan, Proc 

 U. S. Nut. Mus. 1882, 3r)0; not Isesthes gentilis of tbe present work, page 757, which is 

 Isesthes gilbcrti.) 



Page 758. After Isesthes punctatus add : 

 1156 (Z>). I. Ucntzi (Le S.) J. & G. 



Light bluish-ash, mixed with rufous, with numerous irregular black 

 and rufous spots ; dorsal black, with whitish spots ; solt dorsal with 5 

 dark bands ; ventrals blackish, with pale bands ; caudal with 3 or 4 

 dark bands. Body little elongate ; snout very short, but not vertically 

 truncate ; eyes above angle of mouth, placed high ; gill-slit extending 

 from level of base of pectoral fins to height of eye ; teeth equal ; dorsal 

 slightly depressed in the middle ; pectorals large ; a short cirrus above 

 each eye and a smaller one over each nostril. Depth 3^ (in total). D. 

 XI, 14 ; A. IG. Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. [Le Sueur.) 



(Blennius hents Le Sueur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. iv, 363, 1825.) 



1 1 56 (c). I. ionthas J. & G. 



Clear olive-green with traces of darker bars, everywhere densely 

 freckled witb small round blackish spots, smaller than the pujiil, these 

 very small on sides of head ; a golden area behind eye, followed by a 

 blackish crescent ; two dark bars separated by a yellowish area below 

 eye ; fins all olive-green. Body rather deep. Head short, but less blunt 

 than in I. imnctatus. Mouth small, the maxillary scarcely reaching 

 eye ; teeth subequal ; orbital cirrus low, scarcely longer than nasal 

 cirrus, which is about as long as ijupil. Giil slit half head, its lower 

 edge just below middle of pectoral. Dorsal continuous, its spines low 

 and not very stiff; its soft rays free from caudal. Head 4; depth 

 3|. D. XII, 14; A. 16. Pensacola Bay. 



(Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 299.) 



1156 {(l). I. scrutator J. & G. 



Deep olive-green, nearly uniform ; a golden blotch behind eye, fol- 

 lowed by a dark crescent ; two dark bars separated by a yellowish area 

 below eye; fins plain dusky greenish. Body rather deep, compressed; 

 head short, very blunt; mouth very small; teeth subequal; orbital 

 cirri very long, reaching front of dorsal, about half length of head; 

 gill slit 2^ in head, its lower edge just below middle of pectoral. 

 Dorsal scarcely emargiuate, its spines stiff; the soft rays slightly joined 



