2388 Bulletin 4.7, United States National Musetim. 



ventrals and anal nearly blackish in males, the base of the anal with a 

 pale streak. Females more distinctly blotched, with a black spot in front 

 of dorsal and white spots on middle of sides ; head lacking the pale bars 

 and black spots, but much mottled with brown and whitish; a very dis- 

 tinct blackish blotch on front of spinal dorsal; pectoral and caudal pale, 

 a dark blotch on base of pectoral. Length about 4 inches. Monterey to 

 Cape San Lucas ; common southward in rock pools. Here described from 

 specimens from Angel Island, Gulf of California, from Cape San Lucas, and 

 from Monterey and San Diego, (gentilis. related. ) 



Blenniusgentilis, GIRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1854, 149, Monterey, California. Types, 



Nos. 690 and 785 (Coll. A. Cassidy; No. 489, Lieut. Trowbridge) ; GlRARD, Pac. K. R. 



Surv., x, Fishes, 113, pi. 25a, fig. 4, 1858 ; GUNTHER, Cat., m, 217, 1861. 

 Isesthes gentilis, STEINDACHNER, Ichth. Beitrage, v, 150, 1876; JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 



1882,350; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 956, 1883; JORDAN, Proc. II. S.Nat. Mus. 1882, 



349. 



2737. HYPSOBLENMUS STRIATUS (Steindachner). 



Head 4 to 4; depth 4f to 5. D. XI or XII, 17; A. 19; P. 15; V. I, 3. 

 Snout steep, and slightly concave in older examples; interorbital narrow, 

 equal to eye; origin of dorsal a little before the edge of preopercle; 

 second and third dorsal spines equal to the distance from tip of snout to 

 edge of preopercle ; dorsal and anal free from caudal ; pectoral reaching 

 nearly to front of anal. Color yellowish below, sides brownish, irregular 

 dark-brown cross bars on back and sides ; toward the caudal are rows of 

 spots, 4 or 5 wider cross bars of dark brown or violet; a dark blotch from 

 the third to the fifth dorsal spine, behind which are irregular longitudinal 

 dark stripes; anal edged with white, behind which runs a violet line; 

 pectoral and caudal spotted ; a dark oval spot behind eye ; a brown line 

 from first dorsal spine to eye. Panama (Steindachner), where specimens 

 were also taken by Dr. Gilbert, none of these showing posterior canines, 

 although Steindachner notes the presence of a small canine in 1 speci- 

 men, (striatus, striped.) 



Blennius striatus, STEINDACHNER, Ichth. Beitrage, V, 15, 1876, with plates, Panama. 

 Isesthes striatus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. 1882, 111. 



2738. HYPSOBLENNIUS IONTH1S (Jordan & Gilbert) . 



Head 3| to 4 (4* to 4f in total) ; depth 3 to 3i (3f to 4f ). D. XII, 13, or XII, 

 14 ; A. II, 13, or II, 14. Body rather deep, moderately compressed, the back 

 little elevated. Head short, blunt, but less so than in H. punctatus ; the pro- 

 file prominent above the eye, thence descending abruptly but not vertically 

 to the tip of the snout; length of snout 3 in head. Mouth small, low, its 

 cleft largely anterior, the short maxillary scarcely reaching past the front 

 of the eye, 4 in head. Eyes large, placed high, 5 in head, the interorbital 

 space about i their diameter. Female (iontlias} with the orbital cirrus low, 

 scarcely larger than nasal cirrus, which is about equal to diameter of pupil. 

 Teeth moderate, equal; no posterior canines. Gill opening extending 



