THE BAHAMA ISLANDS 319 



GOBIESOX H^RES Jordan and Bollman. 



Collection of C. L. Edwards, Green Turtle Cay, 1888. The single speci- 

 men taken was described in Proc. U. S. Nat. Museum, XI, 1888, p. 552. 



Family ECHENIID^E (Remoras). 

 ECHENEIS NAUCRATEOIDES Zuiew (Sucking Fish). 

 This interesting fish ranges from the coast of Massachusetts to the West 

 Indies, being common southward. It is also found in the waters of Bermuda, 

 usually attached to sharks. Obtained by the Expedition at Gregory Town, 

 Eleuthera, July, 1903, where they were first noticed by the side of the vessel 

 eating offal. ^Numerous examples, captured by hook and line. 



Family BLENNIID,^ (Blennies). 



LABRISOMUS NUCHIPINNIS (Quoy and Gaimard) (Molly Miller). 

 Common in rock pools of the West Indies. The steamer Albatross ob- 

 tained this species at Abaco, New Providence and Watlings Island during 

 March and April, 1886. Recorded from Bermuda. 



MALACOCTENUS MOOREI Evermann and Marsh (Combed Blenny). 



This species was described in 1899 from a specimen obtained in Porto 



Rico. It has since been collected in the Tortugas Archipelago by Dr. J. C. 



Thompson, U. S. N., at Key West by Bean and King, and obtained by the 



Bahama Expedition at Powells Point and Clarence Harbor during July, 1903. 



MALACOCTENUS VARIUS (Poey) (Variegated Blenny). 

 An interesting little fish recorded by Poey from Cuba, and obtained by 

 the steamer Albatross at Nassau, March, 1886. 



MALACOCTENUS LUGUBRIS (Poey) (Dismal Blenny). 



Described from Cuban specimens; obtained by the steamer Albatross at 

 Nassau, March, 1886. 



MALACOCTENUS OCELLATUS (Steindachner) (Ocellated Blenny). 

 Clinus ocellatus Steindachner. Ichth. Beitr., V, 1876, p. 182. Bahama 

 Islands. Definite locality not given. 



MALACOCTENUS BIGUTTATUS (Cope). 



Described under the name of Labrisamus biguttatus in Trans. Amer. 

 Philos. Soc., Phila., 1873, p. 473, from a specimen taken along New Providence. 



