130 LÖNNBERG, LIST OF FISHES OBSEKVED IN SOUTH-^LORIDA. 



Gohiesox virgahdus JoKDAN & GILBERT. Not far froiu 

 Key West I obtained two specimens of a Gobiesox. I caught 

 one in a hole in a sponge and the other one in a hole in an 

 old log of buttonwood. They were dark purplish brown with 

 the margins of verticai fins bordei'ed with white forming a row 

 of small spöts. The head is very broad its width 2^/3 — 2'/2 in 

 total length. Dorsal with 10 rays, anal with 7 or 8. 



Batrachus tau LiNNÉ. »Rockfish», »Toadfish». Common at 

 Clear Water Harbor and other places on the westcoast. I found 

 it often in holes in spoDges and empty Pinna-shells and such 

 places like these. The boys soraetimes caught this kind of fish 

 on hook and line. They believed it poisonous! Round the keys 

 it used to live in holes in the rocks and under pieces of rocks. 

 Because the surroundings here were Jighter from the limerock 

 and the limy sediment that covered everything, the fishes them- 

 selves were much lighter here too, and just about of the same 

 color as the bottom. 



Blennius asterias Goode & Bean. Cruising among the 

 Keys not very far from Key West I collected some specimens 

 of this specie.s. They seem to be abundant in holes in the rocks. 

 The color seems to be somewhat variable, but on all specimens 

 the crossbars are conspicuous in alcohol at least as large blot- 

 ches on the sides. The small spöts were, if I remember right, 

 golden in life (Jordan ') says »probably blue») but not very 

 conspicuous but on two. Between first and second dorsal spine 

 there is a very nice and rather large ocellus in tw^o of my 

 specimens but on the third it is not so plain and on the fourth 

 there is no trace of such a one. May be it only belongs to 

 the male. The fringes or filaments on nape different in number 

 in different specimens. 



Paralichthys albigutta Jordan & Gilbert. »Flounder>'. 

 Rather common, Clear Water Harbor, Hillsborough Co. 



Citharichthys ocellatus (Poey) Jordan & Gilbert. »Flounder.>, 

 Key West. 



') Jordan Contrib. to N. Am. Ichthyol, p. 961. 



