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throat and belly faintly rosaceous; iris bluish with reddish 

 points radiating about the pupils." 

 The largest specimen recorded is 2^ inches long. 



Genus chasmodes Cuv. & Val. 

 Body oblong, compressed, naked; head triangular in profile, 

 the snout somewhat pointed; mouth large, with lateral cleft, 

 the maxillary usually, but not always, extending to beyond eye; 

 premaxillaries not protractile; teeth in a single series, long and 

 slender, comblike, confined to the front of each jaw; no canines; 

 cirri very small or wanting; gill openings very small, their lower 

 edge above the middle of the base of the pectorals; lateral line 

 incomplete. Fins as in B 1 e n n i u s. American. The species 

 with smaller mouth approach H y p s o b 1 e n n i u s , which 

 genus is not far separated from Chasmodes. 



325 Chasmodes bosquianus (Lac^p^de) 

 Banded Blenwj 



Blcnnius bosqulamts Lacep'ede, Hist, Nat. Poiss. II, 493, pi. 13, fig. 1, 1800, 



South Carolina. 

 Jilennius plicAis Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Sec. N. Y. I, 374, 1815, 

 Chasmodes boscianus GiJNTiiEE, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. Ill, 229, 1861. 

 Chasmodes bosquianus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. XI. 29."), 



pi. 327, 1836; De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 151, pi. 24, fig. 73, 1S42. 



New York Harbor; Jokdan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 750. 



1883; Jordan & Eveemann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. Ill, 2394, 1898. 



The depth of the body is contained three and one half times 

 in its length wliich is three and one half times the length of the 

 head. Orbital tentacle very minute or wanting; maxillary ex- 

 tending to rather beyond eye; interocular space very narrow, 

 not concave. Dorsal fin not emarginate, the spines slender. 

 Dorsal joined to base of caudal; anal free. D. XI, 19; A. 20. 



Color (in ! ) olive green, with about nine horizontal narrow 

 blue lines, these somewhat irregular and interrupted, converg- 

 ing backwards; opercular membrane and a broad stripe through 

 '''<n* of spinal dorsal deep orange yellow; anal fin dark, the 

 rays with white membranaceous tips; $ dark olive green, 

 reticulated with narrow pale green lines, and with several broad 

 dark bars, which are moie distinct posteriorly; vertical fins 



