354 Fretp Museum or Natura History — Zodroey, Vor. X. 
dinal series between anterior part of base of second dorsal and 
anal; ventral fins rather short, failing to reach vent, 1.55 to 1.9 
in head; pectorals scarcely reaching vertical from vent, 1.3 to 
1.45 in head. latifrons, p. 355. 
82. Dormitator maculatus (Bloch). 
Scitena maculata Bloch, Naturgesch. der Ausland. Fische, 1790, PI. 
299, fig. 2 (West Indies). 
Eleotris mugiloides Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XII, 1837, 
226 (Martinique; Surinam). 
?Eleotris grandisquama Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XII, 
1837, 229 (America,— locality unknown); Ginther, Cat. Fish. Brit. 
Mus., III, 1861, 113. 
Eleotris sima Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XII, 1837, 232 
(Vera Cruz). 
Eleotris somnolentus Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1858, 169 (near 
mouth of Rio Grande). 
Eleotris omocyaneus Poey, Memorias, II, 1860, 269 (Havana). 
Eleotris gundlachi Poey, Memorias, II, 1860, 272 (Cuba). \ 
Eleotris maculata (in part) Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., III, 1861, 
112 (Trinidad; Demerara; Surinam). 
Dormitator lineatus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 271 (Savannah). 
Dormitator gundlachi Poey, Synopsis, 1868, 396 (Cuba). 
Dormitator omocyaneus Poey, Synopsis, 1868, 396 (Cuba). 
Dormitator maculatus (in part) Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 
XVI, 1883, 632; (in part) Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 
XLVII, 1898, 2196; Regan, Biol. Cent. Amer., Pisces, 1905, 8. 
Head 2.95 to 3.55; depth 2.8 to 3.34; D. VII-I, 8 or rarely 9; A. I, 10 
or rarely 11; scales 31 to 35. 
Body rather robust, compressed; head flat above, its upper profile 
straight or slightly concave over eyes; snout very short and broad, its 
length 3.85 to 4.35 in head; eye lateral, 4.2 to 4.8; interorbital broad, 2.3 
to 3.2; mouth broad, strongly oblique, margin of upper jaw slightly 
above level of lower margin of eye; jaws anteriorly of equal length; 
width of mouth at its posterior angles notably longer than snout; maxil- 
lary reaching vertical from anterior margin of eye, 2.95 to 3.4 in head; 
teeth all small, somewhat compressed at tips, in a band in each jaw; 
gill-membranes attached to the isthmus, the openings extending forward 
to margin of preopercle; gill-rakers well developed, a double series on 
each arch, about 45 in anterior series on lower limb of first arch; scales 
cycloid on upper surface of head, cheeks, chest and predorsal region, 
elsewhere ctenoid; snout and cheeks completely covered with scales, 
