2224 Bulletin ^7, United States National Museum. 



Gobius encceomus,* JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. TT. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 611, Charleston, South 

 Carolina (Type, No. 29673, 3 specimens. Coll. C. H. Gilbert) ; JORDAN & GILBERT, 

 Synopsis, 945, 1883; JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1884, 142; JORDAN & 



ElGENMANN, I. C., 496. 



2547. GOBIUS STIGMATICUS (Poey). 



Head 4; depth 5 to 6; eye 3|. D. VI-12; A. 12 or 13; scales 27. Body 

 a little deeper and less compressed than in Gobius encceomus. Anterior 

 profile moderately decurved; back slightly arched; skull flattish behind, 

 much broader than in G. boleosoma, with an evident median ridge; mouth 

 oblique, large, lower jaw thin and flat, maxillary reaching to below pupil. 

 Teeth above uniserial, some of them enlarged and recurved ; lower teeth 

 in a narrow band, males sometimes with the hindmost of the outer series 

 a strong, exserted, recurved canine (present in Poey's type). Anterior half 

 of body scaled except region between nape and dorsal, which is naked ; 

 breast naked. Longest dorsal spine f- head, sometimes elongate ; caudal 

 3^ in body. Light greenish, sides of male with 5 or 6 narrow, straight, 

 whitish or yellowish cross bars, regularly placed; 4 dark bars on head, 3 

 below the eye and 1 on opercle; a small dark spot behind and above 

 opercle ; ventral fins barred ; female with a row of irregular dark spots 

 connected by a dusky streak, the pale cross bars obsolete. Coast of North 

 Carolina, Florida Keys, the West Indies, southward to Rio Janeiro; 

 common at Havana. Subject to considerable variation. Brazilian speci- 

 mens said by Eigenmann to be darker, the bars on cheek conspicuous; 

 third dorsal spine often much elongate, reaching fifth dorsal ray, last 

 soft ray sometimes reaching caudal, (stigmaticus, spotty.) 



Smaragdus stigmaticus, POEY, Memorias, n, 281, 1861, Cuba. 



Gobionellus stigmaticut, POEY, Synopsis, 394, 1868; POEY, Enumeratio, 126, 1876; JORDAN 



& GILBERT, Synopsis, 947, 1883. 

 Gobius stigmaticus, JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 49; JORDAN & EIGENMANN, I. c., 



496. 



2548. GOBIUS LYBICUS, Girard. 



Head 4; depth 4f. D. VI-11; A. I, 10; scales 27. Body rather elon- 

 gate, moderately compressed ; head rather short, the profile very obtuse, 

 descending abruptly from before the front of the eye to the snout ; eyes 

 small, placed high, about as long as snout, and about 4 in head ; mouth 

 nearly horizontal, much below level of eye, the maxillary extending to 

 beyond pupil, 2| in head; jaws subequal; teeth strong, in 1 series in each 

 jaw; in the lower jaw about 4 shortish, canine-like teeth behind the other 

 teeth; anterior teeth of lower jaw small, of upper jaw rather large; gill 



as*fonow a11 specimen> taken with the 8eine in a shallow bay, at Key West, is described 

 Light green, with 5 diffuse spots of darker green on sides, the posterior one most con- 

 spicuous; pectorals, both dorsals, and caudal edged above with pale orange; ventrals 

 mostly black, edged with paler; anal dark; a conspicuous dusky shoulder spot; maxil- 

 lary reaching to below middle of eye ; caudal about longer than head. Lateral line 

 about 30. Ihis little specimen appears to be identical with that described by us from 

 Charleston under the name Gobius encceomus. The species is allied to G. stwmaturus, 

 but has a much slenderer body. The number of scales in a lateral series is less than 37, 

 ongmally 8tated by U8> There are about 33 in this specimen. (Jordan & 



