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short, about 2f in head. Color in life olivaceous, with numerous paler 

 spots and broad diffuse dark bars ; the whole body covered with rather 

 faint, wavy, longitudinal stripes or lines of a light orange-brown color, 

 about as wide as the interspace, much as in some species of Liparis, 

 these entirely disappearing in alcohol ; skin everywhere with dark punctu- 

 lations; caudal dusky, slightly barred with paler, its tip abruptly yel- 

 lowish; dorsal and anal dusky, the darker parts corresponding to dark 

 bars on the body, barred. A rather large species. Length 2 to 4 inches. 

 Common among ballast rocks, from Pensacola Bay north to Charleston. 

 Our specimens from Pensacola and Charleston. (virgatulus, narrowly 

 striped.) 



Gobiesox virgatulus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 293, Pensacola, Florida 

 (Coll. Jordan & Stearns) ; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 958. 1883 ; GOODE & BEAN, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 236; JORDAN, Proc. U, S. Nat. Mas. 1884, 149. 



2668. GOBIESOX ADUSTUS, Jordan & Gilbert. 



Head 3; depth 5|. D. 9; A. 1. Head and body broad and flat, much de- 

 pressed; width of head nearly equal to its length, 3 in body. Incisors 

 in middle of lower jaw entire, broad; those in upper jaw narrow, blunt, 

 little compressed, entire, shorter than the lateral teeth ; behind these 2 or 

 3 series of smaller teeth. Eyes rather large, separated by a broad interor- 

 bital space, which is ^ length of head and about i greater than diameter 

 of eye. Opercular spine sharp. Pectoral short, about \ length of head; 

 ventral disk as long as head ; distance from base of caudal to front of 

 dorsal equaling W of the length ; caudal rounded behind. Brown, banded 

 with blackish on body, head marbled with darker brown ; front of dorsal 

 black, the fins dusky with darker points. Pacific Coast of Mexico. Three 

 specimens, the largest about 2 inches long, were obtained in a tide pool at 

 Mazatlan. (adustus, scorched; brown.) 



Gobiesox adustus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc.TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1881, 360, Mazatlan, Mexico; 

 JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat, Mus. 1882, 627 ; JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. TJ. S. Fish 

 Comm. 1882, 108. 



2669. GOBIESOX FUNEBBIS, Gilbert. 



Body rather slender, its width 5 in length; width of head 3 to nearly 

 4 ; head 2f to 3 in length ; depth i head. D. 9 ; A. 6 or 7. Teeth in upper 

 jaw conical, in several series, unequal but without canines; in lower jaw 

 niesially in 2 series, the outer of narrow, entire incisors, truncate or 

 rounded, without lateral canines. Interorbital space wide, 3 in head, the 

 eye small, f interorbital width. Mouth very wide, or more than ^ length 

 of head. Ventral disk wider than long, its length 1| to If in head. No 

 evident opercular spine. Distance from front of dorsal to base of caudal 

 2| to 3 in length anterior to dorsal ; distance from vent to front of anal 

 fin 1$ to If in distance from vent to disk; base of dorsal from 1% to 1 in 

 head ; base of anal about i head ; caudal rounded, If to If in head ; pec- 

 torals 3i in head. Color varying from dark olive brown to black, every- 

 where covered with fine, yellowish vermiculations, usually arranged to 



