2226 Bulletin 4.7, United States National Museum. 



of caudal, partly or wholly surrounded by a broad ring of dark brown; 

 hoad slate color, white below; 3 dark bars extending forward and down- 

 ward from eye to mouth; a triangular spot on opercle; dorsals, caudal, and 

 pectorals finely barred with black ; a chocolate bar on base of ventral ; anal 

 margined Avith white; an irregular black bar on shoulder and upper half 

 of pectoral; everywhere more or less blotched with darker, the blotches 

 at times forming numerous bars across the back. Dominica, Fort de 

 France, Martinique, St. Kitts. (Eigenmann & Eigenmaun.) Not seen by 

 us. Apparently very close to Gobius lyricus, if not the same. (Named for 

 its discoverer, Prof. Samuel Garman.) 



Gobius yarmani, EIGENMANN & EIGEMANN, Bull. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1888,61, Dominica, Fort de 

 France, Martinique, St. Kitts. (Coll. Samuel Garman.) 



2550. GOBIUS ZEBRA, Gilbert. 



Head 3; -depth 4; eye 3 in head. D. VI-11 or 12; A. 9. Body not 

 elongate, the snout short, the mouth oblique, with maxillary reaching 

 below middle of orbit. Mouth small, the maxillary 2 in head. Interor- 

 bital space very narrow. Teeth in upper jaw in a narrow band or double 

 series, the outer row enlarged and spaced; lower jaw apparently with a 

 single series, similar to the outer row in the upper jaw. Scales cycloid, 

 large, wanting on nape and a narow strip along base of spinous dorsal. 

 Color cherry red, head and sides with 15 blue cross bars, a little narrower 

 than interspaces, encircling the body posteriorly, lacking for a short dis- 

 tance on belly and under side of head; on upper side of head and nape 

 these bars run obliquely forward and downward, but elsewhere vertical ; 

 on middle of each interspace a very narrow blue line, becoming indistinct 

 on lower part of sides ; on cheeks the blue bars are connected by narrow 

 cross lines, forming blue reticulations surrounding round spots of the 

 ground color. Length of types | inch. Two specimens from Albatross 

 Station 2989, west coast of Mexico, in 36 fathoms, (zebra, zebra, from the 

 stripes.) 



Gobiu* zebra, GILBERT, Proc. TT. S. Nat. Mus. 1890, 73, Albatross Station 2989, west Coast 

 of Mexico. 



Submenus EUCTENOGOBIUS, Gill. 

 2651. GOBIUS POETI, Steindachner. 



Head broad and flattish ; depth 6 in total length ; eye 4J, H in interor- 

 bital width, longer than snout; snout short and decurved. D. VI-9; A. 9; 

 scales 40. Maxillary extending to below middle of eye. Some of the dor- 

 sal spines produced and filamentous, the third 1| times depth of body; 

 caudal short, rounded. Two rows of ill-defined blotches on upper half of 

 body; dorsals and caudal sharply barred, anal and ventrals dusky (male). 

 A small round dark spot at base of caudal. (Steindachner.) Barbados; 

 not seen by us. (Named for Prof. Felipe Poey.) 



Gobiugpoeyi, STEINDACHNER, Ichthyol. Notizen, vi, 44, 1867, Barbados; JORDAN & EIGEN- 

 MANN, I. c., 497. 



