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Familj GOBI ID E. 



193. Eviota personata Jordan & Thompson, new species. Figure 3. 



Head ::.!> in length; depth 4.30 (5.30 in total) ; D. vi-11; A. 11; V. i, 5; scales 9, l'7; eye 2.90 in 

 head; maxillary 2.70; longest dorsal spine 2.50; longest soft ray 1. 50; caudal 1; pectoral 1.05; ventral 

 I. in. 



Body rather elongate, compressed, the dorsal profile evenly curved; mouth small, oblique, the 

 lower jaw considerably projecting, the narrow maxillary extending a little beyond front of eye; teeth 

 sharp and irregular; lower jaw thin; head naked; preopercle entire; gill-membrane narrowly con- 

 nected with isthmus; scales large, finely ctenoid; nape, base of pectoral, and breast naked; dorsals 

 well separated, the first low, sixth spine highest; soft dorsal higher; anal rather low; pectoral long, 

 reaching vent; ventrals separate, rays i, 5; branched in the usual fashion; inner ray also branched and 

 shorter than the others. 



Color in spirits, pale, perhaps greenish in life, the dorsals ami anal fin with fine black dots; a dark 

 streak along middle line of nape; a dark shade along base of each dorsal and anal; a dark streak along 

 middle line of side; side of head about eye jet black, this color forming with the eye a triangular area. 



Fig. Z.—Eriota />r >- i >„><i,i Jordan a Thompson new species. Type. 



which fades out into dark speckling on snout and is hounded below eye by adefinite sharp line which 

 separates the dark area from the silvery of the cheeks; an oblong horizontal black blotch before base 

 of pectoral; an area of black dots on opercle and one above it. 



A Bingle specimen of this remarkable little goby was taken by Doctor Thompson on the reef at 

 Garden Key, and is numbered S41li in Stanford University Museum. 



194. Mapo soporator Cuvier & Valenciennes. We can not distinguish this species from Mapo fuscui 



(albopunetatui I of t hi' Pacific. 

 Common. 



195. Rhinogobius glaucofrsenum Moll). 

 In eel grass. 



196. Rhinogobius tortugse (Jordan). 

 ( Inly cine specimen seen. 



197. Gnatholepis thompsoni Jordan 



Type with about 10 faint dark squares down back, dots in these quincuncially arranged ; below 

 these squares a light line; another row of blotches on level of eye. extending lo tail; below this 

 another light line; at level of pectoral large blotches, the darkest; the dots in all these blotches 

 follow parallel lines; caudal faintly speckled; dorsal more so; ventral cloudy gray; pectoral color of 

 body, which is coral sand colored; above each pectoral a round fawn-colored spot; anal and lower half 

 of caudal tinged with gray ( this portion of body buried in sand when at rest) ; iris yellow; over eye a 



