TWO NEW SPECIES OF FISHES 
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Eleotris pisonis (Gmelin) 
Qobius pisonis, Gmelin; Syst. Nat., 1788, 1206. 
The color of live specimens are as follows: Body dark, dirty brown, stippled 
with lighter dots; back and head lighter than rest of body, the lighter portion of the 
back being abruptly and rather sharply separated from the darker sides; a dark 
horizontal streak from snout to eye, continued back of eye to gill opening; two 
shorter somewhat diffuse streaks radiating backward from eye and situated below 
the larger streak; belly washed with golden shades and stippled with dark dots; 
dorsal and anal light with dark streaks; pectoral light, stippled with dark dots and 
with a black blotch at its base; caudal dark with lighter streaks. 
The foregoing color notes were taken from two specimens 83 and 85 millimeters 
long. The soft dorsal and anal each had nine rays in both fish. The smaller specimen 
had 55 rows of scales, counting from the base of the pectoral to the base of the anal 
while the larger had 49 rows on one side and 54 on the other. Four more specimens 
from Key West have 53 to 62 rows of scales. 
Erotelis smaragdus (Cuvier and Valenciennes) 
Eleotris smaragdus, Cuvier and Valenciennes; Hist. Nat. Poiss., XII, 1837, 231. 
This species has the peculiar habit of burrowing in the bottom mud, where it may 
be taken. It is quite probable that this fish is more common than it is generally 
supposed to be, but is not taken more often because of its unusual habitat. Our 
material from Key West include the following: Two specimens, 46 and 59 millimeters, 
February 7, 1919; 2 specimens, 45 and 63 millimeters, February 15, 1919; 1 specimen, 
60 millimeters, June 4, 1919; and 1, 85 millimeters, August 7, 1919. The first five 
were taken in mud, while the last was taken in a muddy pond. Color greenish above, 
pale below, and everywhere with dusky punctulations; caudal bluish; dorsal and 
anal with dark spots; other fins pale. 
Brannereila oeellata (Steindachner) 
Clinus ocellatus, Steindachner; Iehth. Beit., V, 1876, 182, PI. 12, fig. 5. D. XXI, 8-9; A. I-I, 19; lateral line 37-38. 
Upper profile strongly ascending to origin of dorsal, thence descending gradually 
to base of tail; lower profile much less curved than upper, nearly straight from 
articulation of mandible to anal fin, thence making a gradual curve to tail; body 
robust, not very slender, greatest depth a little behind insertion of pectoral, 4.29 to 
4.71 ; head (measured to margin of bony part of opercle) 3.23 to 3.29; mouth terminal, 
rather large, oblique, lower jaw slightly protruding; maxillary 2.04 to 2.1, reaching 
a vertical through posterior margin of eye; snout rather blunt, 4.37 to 5.1 ; eye large, 
3.32 to 3.57; interorbital quite narrow, 10.4 to 10.7; anterior nostril with a short, 
slender, simple tentacle ; a similar but longer tentacle on eye ; a single slender nuchal 
tentacle placed near mid line of back, about an eye’s diameter in front of dorsal; 
origin of dorsal over insertion of ventrals, slightly behind posterior margin of pre- 
opercle; predorsal distance 3.5 to 3.69 in length; spinous dorsal with a deep emargi- 
nation posteriorly, first spine 4.28 to 4.36 in head, spines gradually increasing in 
length from first to tenth (second spine sometimes slightly shorter than first), tenth 
spines 2.43 to 2.59 in head, tenth to sixteenth spines subequal, then rapidly decreasing 
in length to nineteenth, latter slightly shorter than first spine, twentieth slightly 
longer than eighteenth, last subequal to longest spines; soft part of dorsal rounded, 
higher than spinous part, third or fourth ray longest, 1.57 to 1.68 in head; membrane 
