2200 Bulletin 4.7, United States National Museum. 



the longest 2 inches long, from Surinam, in the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology. (d/ii/3kv$, blunt; oi/>ig, face.) 



Eleotris amblyopsis, COPE, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1870, 473, Surinam (Coll. Dr. Charles 

 Hering) , JORDAN & EIGENMANN, 1. c., 483, 1886; EIGENMANN & EIGENMANN, I. c., 55. 



2521. ELEOTRIS ABACURUS, Jordan & Gilbert. 



Head 3; depth 4$. D.VI-9; A. I, 8; scales 51-20; eye 8 in head, 2 in 

 interorbital Avidth ; pectoral 1^; ventral 1^; highest dorsal ray 2 ; highest 

 anal ray 2; caudal !. Body slender, compressed, the head depressed, 

 becoming very narrow anteriorly, its width f its length ; a notable depres- 

 sion above orbits, the premaxillary processes protruding before it; lower 

 jaw the longer; maxillary reaching vertical behind pupil, 23 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 some- 

 what enlarged, the largest being a single series in sides of lower jaw. 

 Preopercular 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 forming 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 ; 2 dusky streaks from eye downward 

 and backward across cheek ; 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 specimen, 4 inches long, 

 taken in the harbor of Charleston. This species agrees very well with 

 Cope's account of Culius amblyopsis, but the scales are larger, the eye is 

 smaller, and there is some difference in color, besides the remote habitat. 

 s, checker; ovpd, tail.) 



Culius amblyopsis, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 610 ; not of Cope. 

 Eleotris abacurus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1896, 228, Charleston. (Coll. Dr. 

 C. H. Gilbert. Type, No. 2009, L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus.) 



2522. ELEOTRIS PISONIS (Gmelin). 

 (GUAVINA TETARD; SLEEPER.) 



Head 3 to 3 in bqdy ; depth 4 to 5. D. VI-9 ; A. I, 8 ; scales 62 ; eye 5 

 to 8 in head; maxillary 2f ; pectoral 1|; ventral 2; caudal 1. Body not 

 much compressed; head somewhat depressed; mouth rather large, the 

 maxillary reaching to below posterior margin of pupil; lower jaw much 

 projecting, a knob at symphysis; wide bands of villiform teeth in jaws, 

 none on vomer or palatines; interorbital region nearly twice as wide as 

 the horizontal diameter of eye; top of head, cheeks, and opercles covered 

 with small scales; a stout, concealed spine projecting downward on edge 

 of preopercle. Origin of dorsal about midway between tip of snout and 

 end of last dorsal rays ; tips of first dorsal spines not reaching front of 



