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Genus 785. ELEOTEIS Bloch & Schneider. 



FAcotris Block &. Schneider, Syst. Iclith., 65, 1801 {pisonis). 



2*85. xJleotris amblyopsis (Cope). 



Atlautic Coast of America, from Charleston, South Carolina, to Surinam; 



streams of West Indies. 

 EJeotris amhlyopsis Cope, Trans. Anier. Philos. Soc. 1870, 473, Surinam. 



2486. Eleotris abacurus Jordan & Gilbert. 



Coast of South Carolina. 



Eleotris ahaciir IIS .)ordim tS: GUhert, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1896, 228, Charleston, 

 South Carolina. 



2487. Bleotiis pisonis (Gmelin). Gnavina; Tetard; Sleeper. 



Rio Almendares, Cuba. 



GoMm pisonis (inielin, Syst! Nat., 106, 1788, Rio Almendares, Cuba (based 

 on EJeotris of Gronow). 



2488. Eleotris perniger (Cope). 



West Indies, south to Rio .Taneii'o. 



Culiiis perniger Cope, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1870, 473, St. Martins. 



2489. Eleotris pictus Kner & Steindachner. Guarina. 



Streams about the Gulf of California, from Sonora south to Panama; Rio 

 Presidio. 

 • Eleotris pictns Kner tfe Steindachner, Abh. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1864, 18, pL 3, fig. 

 1, Rio Bayano, near Panama. 



Genus 786. ALEXURUS Jordan.' 



Alexitrus Jordan, Proc. Cul. Ac. Sci. 1895, 511 (armiger). 



2490. Alexurus aniliger Jordan. 



La Paz, Baja California. 



Alexurus armiger Jordan & Richardson, in Jordan, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1895, 

 511, pi. 48, La Paz, Lower California. 



Genus 787. EEOTELIS Poey. Esmeraldes de Mar. 



Erotelis Poey, Memorias, ii, 273, 1861 (ralenciev.)iesi^=smaragdus). 



2491. Erotelis smaragdus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Esmeralda Negra; Esmeralda 



de Mar. 

 Key AVest and Cuba; coral shores among alga^. 

 Eleotris smaragdus Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., xu, 231, 1837, Cuba. 



Genus 788. GYMNELEOTRIS Bleaker. 



Gymueleotris Bleeker, Esiju. d'uu Syst. Nat. des Gobi., 304, 1874 (seminuda). 



2492. Gymueleotris seminuda (Giinther). 



Panama. 



Eleotris seminuda Giinther, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1864, 24, pi. 4, figs. 2, 2a, 

 Panama. 



Genus 789. CHEIOLEPIS Gilbert. 



Chriolepis Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1891, 557 {mirmtillus). 



2493. Chriolepis minutillus Gilbert. 



Gulf of California. 



Chriolepis minutillus Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1891, 558, Gulf of Cali- 

 fornia, at Albatross Station 2825. 



Genus 790. SICYDIUM Cuvier & Valenciennes. 

 Sieydiiim Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xii, 168, 1837 (phtmieri). 



2494. Sicydium plumieri (Bloch). Sirago. 



Fresh waters of the West Indies. 



Gobius plumieri Bloch, Ichth., 125, pi. 178, fig. 3, 1786, Martinique; on a draw- 

 ing by Plumier. 



2495. Sicydium antillarum Ogilvie-Grant. 



Barbados. 



Sicydium antillarum Ogilvie-Grant, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1884, 157, Barbados, 



