Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 2337 



Incisors in both jaws, entire and rather broad, the lateral teeth, as usual, 

 pointed; no canines. Eyes very large, considerably wider than the nar- 

 row interorbital area, 34- in head; interorbital area nearly 5 in head. 

 Ventral disk a little longer than head, 2 in body. Pectoral about 

 length of head. Distance from front of dorsal to caudal, 3 in body. 

 Caudal truncate, with rounded edges. Light olivaceous ; body with 3 or 

 4 bars of cherry red ; head marbled with red ; eyes intensely cherry red, 

 their upper border blackish; fins pale, the upper mottled with reddish; 

 caudal barred with red. Two specimens, 1 inches long, taken in a rock 

 pool at Mazatlan; also recorded from the Tres Marias Islands. (epvQpos, 

 red ; o5^, eye. ) 



Gobiesox erythrops, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc.TJ. S.Nat. Mus. 1881, 320, Mazatlan, Mexico 

 (Type, No. 29248. Coll. Gilbert) ; JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. TJ. S. Fish Comm. 1882, 108 ; 

 JORDAN, Fishes of Sinaloa, in Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1895, 499. 



2675. GOBIESOX RUBIGINOSUS {Poey). 



D. 6 or 7 ; A. 6 ; V. 4 ; P. 25. Head 3, including caudal, its greatest width 

 twice its height; eye 2 in interorbital width. Body slender; head semi- 

 oval, obtuse; distance from front of dorsal to caudal 1 in length, includ- 

 ing caudal; dorsal opposite anal, beginning at fourth seventh of total 

 length; mouth terminal; teeth not examined by Poey. Color red, with 

 12 dark bands and with many scattered spots of clear blue on the body ; 

 eyes with a red circle. Length 22 mm. Cuba (Poey); not seen by us; 

 locally common at Matanzas ; perhaps a species of Arbaciosa. (rubiginosus, 

 reddish.) 



Sicyases rubiginosus, POEY, Synopsis, 391, 1868, wharves of Palmasola, Matanzas, 

 Cuba (Coll. Poey) ; POEY, Enumeratio, 124, 1875. 



2676. GOBIESOX CARNEUS (Poey). 



Head rounded ; body very slender ; eyes large, as wide as interorbital 

 space ; mouth inferior ; teeth not examined by Poey. Color pale red, with 

 some white specks and bands. Length 22 mm. Otherwise essentially as 

 in Crobiesox rubiginosus. (Poey.) Matanzas; a doubtful species, (carneus, 

 flesh-colored.) 



Sicyases carneus, POEY, Synopsis, 392, 1868, wharves of Palmasola, Matanzas, Cuba (Coll. 

 Poey) ; POEY, Ennmeratio, 124, 1875. 



2677. GOBIESOX HJERES, Jordan & Bollman. 



Head 2f (3* in total); depth 6 (7|). D.9; A. 6. Body rather slender; 

 head low and broad, greatest breadth not quite equal to length, its anterior 

 margin not so broadly rounded as in G. virgatulus. Eyes very small, 1 

 in interorbital space, 5 in head ; interorbital bone appearing convex, least 

 width 3i in head and about equal to length of snout ; cleft of mouth ex- 

 tending to beyond middle of eye; lower jaw included; teeth uniserial, 

 those of upper jaw all canines, the first 3 on each side small, but becom- 

 ing larger outward, next 3 or 4 much larger, rest smaller than those in 

 front ; anterior teeth of lower jaw entire incisors, which have on each side 



