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Teeth on each jaw in narrow bands, all alike. Coloration in life, light 

 grayish olive, with rather sharply defined markings of darker brown; 

 head with a pale bluish stripe from behind the angle of the mouth upward 

 and forward parallel with the gape to below front of eye, then turn- 

 ing abruptly backward across suborbital region to upper edge of gill 

 opening; another pale streak from snout along lower part of eye; 

 between this and the first streak a dusky area; below the first-mentioned 

 streak a dusky region on cheek ; opercle with an oblique blackish bar ; 

 top of head with dark marblings surrounded by paler reticulations ; back, 

 with a series of black cross blotches, mostly separated on the median 

 line; 2 narrow vertical dark bars behind pectoral; middle line of side pos- 

 teriorly with longitudinally oblong black blotches; besides these num- 

 erous other blotches not regularly arranged; first dorsal with 2 or 3 

 oblique black bands; second dorsal pale, with about 4 series of black 

 dots ; caudal spotted with black, pectoral yellowish, ventral black, its 

 center yellowish ; anal pale; lower side of head pale; jaws dusky. Coast 

 of Florida to Texas, in sandy or weedy bays, common north to Indian 

 River. A strongly marked species with no near relative among our other 

 gobies. The specimens here described from Pensacola. (gulosus, large- 

 mouthed. ) 



Gobius gulosus, GIRARD, Proc. Ac. !N"at. Sci. Phila. 1858, 169, Indianola, Texas; GIRARD, 

 TJ. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., Zool., 26, 1859 ; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 634, 1883. 



Lepidogobius gulosus, J ORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 294 ; JORDAN & GIL- 

 BERT, Synopsis, 945, 1883. 



Microgobius gulosus, JORDAN & EIGENMANN, I. c., 505. 



2575. MICROGOBIUS ETJLEPIS, Eigenmann & Eigenmann. 



Head 4 in length (51 in total); depth 5 (7). D.VII-15; A. 16; scales 

 50-14. Body elongate, scarcely compressed; head slightly higher than 

 wide, the depth 1 in its length; eye large, longer than snout, 3 in head; 

 snout 5 in head, rather broad, not pointed as in M. thalassinus; preorbital 

 narrower than pupil ; mouth very oblique, maxillary not extending beyond 

 anterior margin of. pupil, 2 in head; teeth in upper jaw in a very narrow 

 baud, slightly enlarged in outer series, largest toward angle of mouth ; 

 teeth of lower jaw in a similar band, some of outer ones in front long and 

 slender. Scales cycloid, rather large, crowded anteriorly, regularly ar- 

 ranged, not embedded as in M. signatus, not deciduous as in M. thalassinus; 

 breast, nape, and region along spinous dorsal naked. First dorsal spine 

 equidistant from tip of snout and first anal ray; longest dorsal spine 14 in 

 head; caudal fin about 4 in body; ventral not reaching vent, equaling 

 length of head, the basal membrane of its actual length ; pectoral equal- 

 ing length of head. Color yellow or very light brown, dotted with 

 minute dark points above ; scales along back with a dark margin ; head 

 and nape with minute points ; spinous dorsal transparent, a marked black 

 spot on upper part of membrane between fourth and fifth dorsal spines; 

 other fins plain ; a light vertical bar on posterior margin of preopercle ; 



