2232 Bulletin //, United States National Museum. 



ENYPNIAS (eVvTrnos, in one's sleep) : 



aa. Scales excessively minute; body slender, the depth 6 in length. D. VI-15; A. 10; 

 dorsal spines not filamentous ; lower jaw with 2 small curved canines in front. 



SEMINUDA, 2562. 

 Subgenus GARMANNIA. 

 2560. GABMANHA PARADOX A (Guuther). 



Head about 3| (4 in total) ; depth about 4 (5f- with caudal). D. VI-11 ; 

 A. 9; scales 14. Head nearly as broad as high, its width being rather 

 more than | of its length. Eyes rather close together, of moderate size. 

 Snout obtuse, rounded, as long as the eye; cleft of the mouth slightly 

 oblique, with the jaws equal in length, and with maxillary extending to 

 below middle of the eye. Teeth in villiform bands; 2 curved canine 

 teeth on each side of the lower jaw. Head and trunk entirely naked to 

 between second dorsal and anal, the remainder covered with ctenoid scales 

 of moderate size, 9 or 10 of them in 1 of the anterior transverse series. 

 First dorsal spine elongate, filiform, sometimes extending to the base of 

 the caudal; caudal rounded, shorter than head; none of pectoral rays 

 silk-like; ventral terminating at a great distance from vent. Blackish 

 inspirits; caudal and ventral fins black, dorsal filament whitish. (Giin- 

 ther. ) Panama to Mazatlan ; scarce. Our single specimen from the estuary 

 at Mazatlan differs somewhat from Dr. Giinther's account. It is thus 

 described: Head 3; depth 4. D. VI-11; A. 9; scales 12; eye 4 in 

 head; snout 4; pectoral 1 in head; dorsal spine 1^. Form of Gobi- 

 osoma bosci. Body compressed; head broad and depressed, with tumid 

 cheeks; snout not very blunt, short, oblique-truncate; eyes rather large, 

 high, the maxillary not produced, extending to their posterior margin; 

 mouth large, oblique; lower jaw heavy, slightly projecting; teeth strong; 

 gill openings narrow, not wider than base of pectoral. First dorsal rather 

 high, the first spine filamentous, reaching past soft dorsal; other fins low. 

 Head and anterior half of body to front of soft dorsal naked; scattering 

 scales coming in above, 12 rows of imbricated slightly ctenoid scales 

 along median line of caudal peduncle and forward to middle of soft dorsal, 

 the scaled area about as long as head, the upper parts better scaled than 

 lower. No flaps on shoulder girdle. Olivaceous, with 7 or 8 dark cross 

 shades, 2 on head, 1 across gill openings, 1 behind pectoral, and a broad 1 

 below soft dorsal; dorsals dusky, the filamentous ray pink; lower half 

 of soft dorsal yellowish, upper dusky ; lower fins black ; caudal dusky ; a 

 dark speck at angle of opercle; skin everywhere punctate with black; a 

 pale olive bar at base of caudal. Skull without median crest ; interorbital 

 space not concave ; head not very abruptly widened behind eyes. Pacific 

 coast of Mexico and Central America. One specimen, 1| inches long, 

 recently obtained on muddy bottoms among the mangroves lining the 

 estuary at Mazatlan. (paradoxus, paradox.) 



Gobius paradoxus, GUNTHER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1861, 3, west coast Central America; 



GUNTHER, Cat., in, 549, 1861 ; JORDAN & EIGENMANN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 498. 

 Oarmannia paradoxa, JORDAN, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1895, 497, pi. 59. 



