2220 Bulletin 4.7, United States National Museum. 



Coryphoptemsglaucofrcenum, GILL, Proc. Ac. K"at Sci. Phila. 1863, 263, Coast of Washing. 



ton (evidently an error). 

 Gobius glaucofrcenum, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 635, 1883; JORDAN <fc EIOENMANN, 



1. c., 494; EIGENMANN & ElGENMANN, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1888, 59. 



2540. GOBIUS MANGLICOLA, Jordan & Starka. 



Head 4J; depth 5|. D. VI-12; A. 12; scales about 35, not to be exactly 

 counted; caudal lanceolate, 2f in body; pectoral about equal to head; 

 dorsal spine slender, not filamentous, If in head ; eyes large, close together, 

 the range partly vertical, the narrow interorbital deeply furrowed; no 

 flaps on shoulder girdle; scales moderate, ctenoid anteriorly, becoming 

 smooth behind; median keel on head slight; head naked. Body long, 

 compressed, the head depressed, the cheeks tumid ; snout bluntly trun- 

 cate; mouth large, the maxillary reaching the middle of eye, not pro- 

 duced backward, truncated behind, somewhat oblique, the lower jaw a 

 little the longer; lower jaw flat; teeth strong, the outer in both jaws en- 

 larged; cranium without median crest, abruptly widened behind eyes. 

 Color light olive, mottled with darker; 6 oblong blotches of blackish on 

 sides as in Gobius boleosoma, the last at base of caudal; dorsals aud caudal 

 finely checkered and barred with dark brownish orange and blackish ; 

 anal mottled; a dark shoulder spot; a dark bar before eye and 1 below 

 eye; ventrals dusky, the edge pale. One specimen, 1 inches long. Ma- 

 zatlan; found in the mud of the Astillero among the roots of mangrove 

 bushes (Rhizophora mangle'), (whence the name mangle; colo, I inhabit). 



Gobius manglicola, JORDAN & STARKS, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1895, 496, Mazatlan. (Coll. Hop- 

 kins Expedition to Mazatlan. Type, 3095, L. S. Jr. TJniv. Mus.) 



2541. GOBIUS STIGMATUBUS, Goode & Bean. 



Head 4; depth 4-J-; eye 4, about equal to snout. D. VI-12; A. 11 or 12; 

 scales 33. Body subfusiform, little compressed; head blunt, the profile 

 rounded. Mouth small, horizontal, the lower jaw included; maxillary 3 

 in head, reaching eye. Teeth small, in bands in both jaws, the outer en- 

 larged, those of the upper jaw very slender. Region from nape to dorsal 

 entirely scaled, the scales large, ctenoid, those on nape and belly little 

 reduced. Dorsal spines short, the longest shorter than the head ; caudal 

 fin scarcely pointed, about as long as head. Grayish white, middle of 

 sides with 4 or 5 dark blotches, from each of which a dark bar extends 

 downward and forward; a large black blotch above pectoral, obsolete in 

 the female; a small black spot at base of caudal, and a dark mark below 

 the eye ; vertical fins barred. Two specimens taken in a shallow bay at 

 Key West are thus described : Very pale olive, everywhere freckled and 

 spotted; lower part of sides silvery, crossed by faint and narrow cross 

 streaks of light brown ; sides with about 5 faint dark blotches ; a dark 

 blotch below eye and 1 on opercle; a round black spot at base of caudal; 

 bars on verticle fins light olive. Numerous other specimens are less 

 freckled in coloration, and have a more diffuse caudal spot as well as a 

 vague dark spot at the shoulder. The dusky marks on the sides are larger. 



