228 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



figured, not a type, is from near Unalaska. Coll., C. H. 

 Gilbert, on the Albatross. 



Family GOBIID.^. 

 15. Eleotris abacurus Jordan & Gilbert, n. sp. 



Head 3; depth 4^. D. VI-9; A. I, 8; scales 5 1-20 ; 

 eye 8 in head, 2% in interorbital width; pectoral 1% ; 

 ventral 1*4 ', highest dorsal ray 2; highest anal ray 2 ; 

 caudal 1% . 



Body slender, compressed, the head depressed, be- 

 coming very narrow anteriorly, its width -§ its length; a 

 notable depression above orbits, the premaxillary pro- 

 cesses protruding before it; lower jaw the longer; max- 

 illary reaching vertical behind pupil, 2f in head. Teeth 

 in jaws in narrow villiform bands, becoming a single 

 series on sides of lower jaw ; those of the outer and 

 inner series in each jaw are somewhat enlarged, the larg- 

 est being a single series in sides of lower jaw. Pre- 

 opercular spine as usual in the genus. Scales smooth 

 above and below, ctenoid on sides. 



Color in spirits brown, lighter above and below; each 

 scale on middle of sides with a dusky streak, these form- 

 ing obscure lengthwise lines ; back anteriorly with a few 

 small black spots; under parts, including sides of head, 

 very thickly punctulate with black; no dark stripes from 

 orbit. Lips black; a dark streak from snout through 

 eye to upper angle of preopercle; two dusky streaks 

 from eye downwards and backwards across cheeks; a 

 very conspicuous black blotch as large as eye in front of 

 upper pectoral rays. Pectorals and ventrals transparent, 

 dusky; vertical fins all barred with light and dark in fine 

 pattern. 



Coast of South Carolina; known from a single speci- 

 men, 4 inches long, No. 2009, L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus. ; 

 taken in the harbor of Charleston, bv Dr. Gilbert. 



