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BOLLMANIA LITURA, A NEW SPECIES OF GOBY* 



By ISAAC GINSBURG 

 U. S. Bureau of Fisheries 



(With One Plate) 



The first Johnson-Smithsonian Deep-Sea Expedition to the Puerto 

 Rican Deep obtained a specimen of a goby which proves to be a new 

 species, described below. 



BOLLMANIA LITURA, n. sp. 



Description of type. — Body and head of medium depth, well 

 compressed. Eye notably large, its diameter considerably greater than 

 length of snout. Mouth medium, notably oblique, terminal, lower jaw 

 projecting; a horizontal through anterior edge of upper lip about 

 passing through lower margin of eye ; maxillary ending on a vertical 

 through middle of eye. Tongue fleshy, broad, free for a considerable 

 distance, its anterior margin very moderately and broadly emarginate. 

 Teeth in narrow bands of three irregular rows, extending nearly to 

 angle of mouth ; teeth in outer row of upper jaw and in inner and 

 outer rows of lower jaw moderately enlarged ; enlarged outer teeth of 

 upper jaw extending nearly to angle of mouth ; enlarged outer teeth 

 of lower jaw smaller than those of upper jaw, extending only to ap- 

 proximately halfway between symphysis and angle of mouth ; inner 

 row of lower jaw having some of the teeth situated at the side some- 

 what larger than those at the symphysis, but no well-marked caninoids 

 anywhere. Isthmus moderately broad, attachment of gill membrane 

 approximately under margin of preopercle. 



Scales large, in 28 oblique rows from upper angle of pectoral to 

 base of caudal ; scales completely covering body and entire belly, con- 

 tinuous on side around base of ventral to chest as far as gill opening ; 

 scales present on base of pectoral, on antedorsal distance as far as the 

 eyes, and on cheek ; scales on side of body and caudal peduncle weakly 

 ctenoid, having one marginal row of comparatively small spinules, the 

 others cycloid and somewhat smaller ; opercle probably having one or 



' Published by permission of the U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries. 

 Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 91, No. 20 



