Family XXII. Gobiid^e. 227 



end of snout; those on anterior part of the body smaller than those 

 on the posterior part. 



Color dark brownish above, lighter below; an interrupted dark 

 lateral band, in specimens a foot or more in length obsolete; anal and 

 ventral fins pale, the other fins dusky and distinctly mottled ; spinous 

 dorsal margined with blackish; head often with dark spots. Length 

 2 feet or more. 



Phily pints lateralis is said to differ from Philypnus Jormitor in 

 brighter color and the more distinct lateral band ; young specimens in 

 our collection from La Antigua have as distinct a lateral band as do 

 specimens of the same size from Tehuantepec. 



85. Dormitator Gill. 



PuNECAS. 



Dormitator Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 240. (Type, 

 Dormitator gundlachi Gill.) 



Body robust, somewhat compressed; head broad and flat above; 

 mouth little oblique, lower jaw little projecting; teeth in jaws, none 

 on vomer; lower pharyngeal teeth stiff and blunt, the bones with a 

 broad, flexible, and lamelliform rudimentary gill filament; scales large, 

 ctenoid ; no preopercular spine ; supraoccipital crest low. 



215. Dormitator maculatus (Bloch). Guavina; Punecas; Pargeta; 

 La Papeque. 

 Scimta maculata Bloch, Ichth., pi. 299, fig. 2, 1790, West Indies. 

 Elcotris sima Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 232, 1837; 



Vera Cruz. 

 Elcotris maculata Gunther, Cat., in, 112, 1861. 

 Elcotris somuolcutus Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1S58, 169; 



near the mouth of the Rio Grande. 

 Dormitator maculatus Jordan, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1895, 493- Ri° 

 Presidio, near Mazatlan: Rutter, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1896, 

 265 ; Rio San Jose, San Jose del Cabo, Lower California: Jordan 

 & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898, 2196. 

 West Indies, both coasts of America from South Carolina and Cape 

 San Lucas to Panama and Para. (Boca del Rio; El Hule; Obispo; 

 Perez.) 



Head 3K'- depth 3 1 /$ ; D. vii-i, 8; A. 1, 9 or 10; scales 10-30. 

 Bodv robust, somewhat compressed, profile much decurved ; head 

 broad, interorbital nearly flat, if in head; snout bluntish ; mouth 

 terminal, oblique, maxillary reaching vertical from anterior margin 

 of orbit; teeth in jaws villiform, in bands; no teeth on vomer; eye 4 



