Storer's Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 119 



2. Chasmodes novemlineatus, Wood. 



Body with nine whitish longitudinal bands ; dorsal fin with an irregular blackish spot 



between the first and second rays ; remainder of the fin clouded with dusky brown. 



D. 30. P. 13. V.2. A. 20. C. 121. Length, 3i inches. 



South Carolina, Wood. 



Pholis novemlineatus, Wood, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc, iv. p. 2S0. 



Le Chasmodes a neuf raies, Chasmodes novemlineatus, Cuv. et Val., xi. p. 299. 



Chasmodea novemlineuius, Dekay's Report, p. 152. 



3. Chasmodes quadrifasciatus, Wood. <J / /? 

 Body with four distinct brownish bands, and an interrupted obscure broad band on the 



neck ; belly with four yellowish spots over the anal fin ; ventral fin fasciate with brown 

 Dorsal fin not joining the tail. 



D 27. P. 11. V. 2. A. 15. C. 9. Length, 2A inches. 



Maryland (.'), Wood. 



Pholis quadrifasciatus, Wood, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc., rv. p. 282, pi. 17. &°. 1. 



Le Chasmodes a quatre bandes, Chasmodes quadrifasciatus, Cuv. et Val., xi. p. 293. 



Chasmodes quadrifasciatus, Dekay's Report, p. 152. 



GENUS IV. SALARIAS, Cuv. 



Species whose teeth, forming a single range and placed close to each other, 

 are compressed laterally, hooked at the end, exceedingly slender, and very 

 numerous. They move, in the living subject, like the keys of a harp- 

 sichord. Their head, strongly compressed above, is very broad below ; 

 their lips are thick and fleshy ; their profile is completely vertical, and their 

 spirally convoluted intestines are longer and thinner than in the common 

 Blenny. 



1. Salarias Atlanticus, Cuv. 



Chocolate-brown, lighter towards the abdomen ; caudal blackish in its middle, yellowish 

 upon its upper and lower edge. A black spot back of the eye. Head one fifth the whole 

 length. A simple and very slender tentacle upon the eyebrow, the height of the eye. 



D. 11-21. P. 15. V. 2. A. 24. C. 11. Length, 3J inches. 



Caribbean Sea, Cuv. 



Le Salaria-s de I'Atlantique, Salarias Atlanticus, Cnv. et Val., xi. p. 321. 



2. Salarias periophthalmus, Cuv. 

 Olive-green above, with small red points ; abdomen whitish ; dorsal dotted with red, vio- 

 let at its base, and having six blackish spots upon its anterior portion ; llie caudal is orange 



