2362 Bulletin 4.7, United States National Museum. 



St. Bartholomew, West Indies; known from one specimen taken among 

 madreporic rocks. (Le Suenr.) Not recognized by any recent author; 

 perhaps not distinct from L. nuchipinnis. 



Blennius herminier, LE SUEUK, Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 361, St. Bartholomew. 

 Glinus hermineri, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xi, 380, 1836. 



2703. LABBISOMUS NUCHIPINNIS (Quoy & Gaimard). 



HeadSi; depth 3. D. XVIII, 12; A. II, 17; scales 70. Body oblong, 

 rather robust ; head naked, thick, short, not very obtuse anteriorly, com- 

 pressed above ; mouth rather large, the maxillaries not prolonged back- 

 ward, extending to opposite the posterior part of eye, 2- in head ; teeth on 

 vomer and palatines; front teeth of jaws conic, strong, behind them a 

 band of villiforui teeth, broadest in lower jaw; vomer with a patch of 

 smallish teeth; eyes large; interorbital space very narrow ; each side of 

 neck with a long series of hair-like filaments, nearly as long as eye ; orbital 

 tentacle short and broad, multifid; nostril with a tufted barbel; lower 

 jaw slightly projecting, its posterior teeth sometimes recurved; pectorals 

 a little shorter than head, reaching vent. Dorsal spines rather slender, 

 the 3 anterior spines scarcely shorter than the others, all the spines lower 

 than the soft rays; dorsal fin commencing near the nape, the spinous por- 

 tion long ; soft rays higher than the spines ; caudal small ; pectorals rather 

 large; ventrals moderate; gill-membranes broadly united, free from the 

 isthmus; lateral line complete, high anteriorly, then abruptly decurved; 

 membranes of vertical fins scaly; scales not very small, cycloid. Reddish 

 brown, sometimes with vertical bands ; a black spot on opercle, which is 

 often edged with white; cheeks and fins reticulate or dotted. Length 6 

 to 8 inches. West Indies, north to Florida Keys, south to Brazil ; gener- 

 ally-common in rock pools ; also recorded from the Canary Islands, (nucha, 

 nape; pinna, fin.) 



Clinus nuchipinnis, Quoy & GAIMARD, Voy. TJranie et Physicienne, Zool., 255, 1824, Brazil 

 (Coll. M.Freycinet & M. Gay) ; GUNTHER, Cat., in, 262, 1861; JORDAN & GILBERT, Syn- 

 opsis, 762, 1883. 



Glinus pectinifer, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XI, 374, 1836, Bahia. 



Lepisoma cirrhosum, DE KAY, N. Y. Fauna: Fishes, 41, 1842, Florida. 



Olinus canariensis, VALENCIENNES, in WEBB & BERTHELOT, Poiss. lies Canaries, 60, 17, f. 3, 

 Canary Islands. 



Clinus capillatus, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xi, 377, 1836, Martinique. 



Lalrosomus pectinifer, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1860, 105. 



Labrisomut capillatus, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. I860, 107. 



2704. LABR1SOMUS XANTI, Gill. 



Head 3 in body; depth 3|. D. XVIII, 12; A. II, 18; scales 10-64 

 (pores)-12 (from front of straight portion of lateral line to anal) ; eye 4| 

 in head, maxillary 2; highest dorsal spine 2|; pectoral 1|; caudal If. 

 Body not greatly elongate, compressed, anterior profile well rounded from 

 snout to nape ; mouth rather large, the maxillary reaching to below mid- 

 dle of eye; teeth small, canine-like, growing gradually larger toward 



