2382 Bulletin 4.7, United States National Museum. 



2731. BLENXIUS VIXCTUS, Poey. 



Head 3* to base of caudal; depth 4. D. XII, 13; A. I, 8; V. 3. Eye 

 high, 4 in head, as long as snout. Anterior nostril in a short tuhe. Jaws 

 equal; 4 pores on the side of the lower jaw; 1 on the opercle; 4 on the 

 suborbital ; 4 below eye. A long tentacle above eye ; another very small 

 one on the nape. Maxillary reaching to below front of pupil. Teethlarge, 

 not pointed, compressed, in 1 series of 10 to 12 on each side of each jaw, 

 feeble, somewhat moveable; gill membranes united, free from isthmus. 

 Dorsal elevated backward, connected by a membrane to the first third of the 

 caudal, as is also the anal, twenty second ray highest, its height \ depth 

 of body and double length of the dorsal ray above tip of pectoral; anal 

 similar, \ also of the rays of the dorsal and anal simple; the spines 

 flexible, differing from the others in not being articulate ; pectoral pointed, 

 its middle rays longest, and also more robust, all simple ; ventral not very 

 short ; caudal rounded. Lateral line forming a curve anteriorly. Color 

 uniform brown. Cuba, (vinctus, bound.) 



Blennius vinctus, POEY, Repertorio, 243, 1867, Havana. (Coll. Felipe Poey. Type,* No. 

 12647, Mus. Comp. Zool.) 



2732. BLEKNIUS CR1STATUS, Linnaeus. 



Head 4; depth 4. D. XI, 16; A. 19; maxillary 3. Body moderately 

 elongate, compressed; the head very blunt and deep, almost as deep as 

 long, its anterior profile straight or slightly concave, and nearly vertical. 

 Mouth moderate, the maxillary reaching to past front of eye; lower jaw 

 with 2 short stoutish posterior canines, scarcely longer than the front 

 teeth; upper jaw without canines. Teeth about ff. Preorbital deep, 

 its depth equal to diameter of eye and contained 4J times in length of 

 head. Interorbital space flat, narrow, f- width of eye. Supraocular cirri 

 small, fringed, their length about equal to that of pupil. Nape with a lon- 

 gitudinal dermal crest reaching to front of dorsal, provided with a series of 

 about 20 filaments, the longest about as long as the eye. Gill membranes 

 forming a broad fold across the isthmus, as in all species of Blennius. 

 Dorsal nearly continuous, the last spine a little lower than the first soft 

 ray, not very high, beginning on the nape in front of the vertical of the 

 preopercle, the spines all slender and flexible, the longest as long as the 

 head, the longest soft ray f as long as the head; caudal free from dorsal 

 and anal, as long as head ; anal moderate, | length of head ; pectoral 

 somewhat shorter than head; ventral a little more than \ length of head. 

 Lateral line forming the usual arch above pectoral, and continued back- 

 ward on median line to base of caudal, becoming indistinct posteriorly. 



* On the type of Blennius vinctus we have the following notes: "No. 12647, M. C. Z. 

 Cuba. (Poey.) One and a half inches long, in poor condition. Head ca 3; depth ca 4. 

 D. XII, 13; A. II, 13. Dorsal joined to caudal as far as tips of the rays, which are high. 

 Dorsal spines high and stiff, the fin not notched, the soft rays higher. A thick scale-like 

 fringed cirrus above each eye, nearly as long as eye, which is small. Gill membrane free. 

 Head blunt, Maxillary to front of pupil. Lower jaw with very strong canines; upper 

 jaw with none. No nuchal cirri," 



