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2570 (a). BOLLMAMVIA BOQUEROXENSIS, Evermann & Marsh. 



Head 4; depth 5.5; eye 3.5; snout 4.4; maxillary 2.2; mandible 2.5; 

 interorbitnl width 3 in eye; preorbital 6; scales 27-8; D. VII-13, the 

 longest spine 1.5 in head, the longest ray 1.2; A. 12, tbe longest ray 1.25 

 in head; pectoral 1; ventrals 1.1 ; caudal 0.4. 



Body long, slender, tapering; head short; snout blunt; mouth large, 

 oblique; jaws subequal, maxillary reaching posterior border of pupil; 

 isthmus narrow, the gill-openings reaching forward to below preopercle; 

 eyes large, high, close together, the interorbital very narrow and without 

 median keel ; no fleshy process on inner edge of shoulder girdle; teeth on 

 laws in narrow bands, those of outer series somewhat enlarged; opercle 

 short, about 3 in head. Fins moderate; origin of spinous dorsal slightly 

 behind base of pectoral, its spines 7 in number, not filamentous; inter- 

 space between dorsals less than diameter of eye; soft rays of dorsal and 

 anal reaching, when depressed, beyond base of caudal ; caudal long and 

 pointed, as in Gobius occanicus ; pectoral pointed, reaching beyond origin 

 of anal; ventral disk moderate, free from belly, the longest rays barely 

 reaching origin of anal. Scales very large, weakly ctenoid; nape, cheek, 

 and breast scaled, the scales somewhat smaller than on body, about 9 

 scales before the dorsal. 



Color : Pale olivaceous or straw-color, back and upper part of head with 

 profuse fine dark punctulatious; under parts pale, breast somewhat 

 dusky; dorsal iins barred with white and dark, a large jet-black ocellus 

 on posterior part of spinous dorsal ; other fins pale, the ventral disk some- 

 what dusky in front. The only known Atlantic member of the genus. 



Length 2 to 3 inches. Puerto Rico. Known only from 5 specimens 

 dredged by the IT. S. Fish Commission expedition to Puerto Rico, off 

 Puerto Real, in Ensenada del Boqueron, January 25, 1899. (Named for the 

 type locality.) 



Bollmannia boqueronensis, EVERMANN & MARSH, Rept. U. S. Fish Com. 1899 (Dec. 19. 

 1899), 356, Ensenada del Boqueron, off Puerto Real, in 8.5 fathoms, at Fish Hawk 

 station 6074. (Type, No. 49366, U.S.N.M. Coll. Evermann & Marsh.) 



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 2575 (a). MICROGOBIUS MEEKI, Evermanu & Marsh. 



Head 3.75; depth 6; eye 3.5; snout 5.5; interorbital 7; preorbital 7; 

 maxillary 2; mandible 1.5; scales 55-12; D. vn-17; A. 16. 



Body slender, greatly compressed, tapering regularly from pectorals to- 

 caudal ; head moderately heavy, interorbital space very narrow; eye large, 

 high; mouth large, oblique; maxillary reaching posterior border of orbit; 

 lower jaw projecting; teeth in bands in each jaw, the outer series greatly 

 enlarged and strongly recurved, those of lower jaw largest; isthmus 

 rather narrow 7 , the gill-openings continue forward. 



Body densely scaled, the scales strongly ctenoid, those anteriorly some- 

 what reduced; nape, breast, and entire head naked. Origin of spinous 



