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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
The following table gives measurements of 14 specimens: 
Head. 
Depth. 
Eye. 
Dorsal. 
Anal. 
Scales. 
Q 
5 1 
4 
VI-11 or 12 
11 
30 
4 
5* 
4 
VI-11 
11 
30 or 31 
4, 
4f 
3-i 
VI-12 or 13 
13 or 14 
30 or 31 
4 
4 
VI-11 or 12 
12 
30 or 31 
4f 
5:1 
4 
VI-11 or 12 
11 or 12 
30 or 31 
ii 
5i 
3g 
VI-11 or 12 
13 or 14 
5' 
4 
VI-11 
11 
30 or 31 
4§ 
4f 
4, nearly. 
VI-11 
11 
29 or 30 
4f 
3f 
VI-1) 
12 
30, about- 
4+ 
54 
4 
VI-11 
11 
28 or 29 
4 
54 
4+ 
VI-11 
11 
28 or 29 
4 
5+ 
4 
VI-11 
12 
26, about. 
4+ 
34 
VI-11 
11 
28 
4 
5i 
3+ 
VI- ? 
11 
29 or 30 
200. Gobius wiirdemanni Grd. Brazos Santiago (types, Girard, 1859, and Synopsis). 
201. Gobionellus oceanicus (Pallas). Emerald Fish. St. Joseph Island (as Gobionellus hastatus 
types, Girard, 1859, pi. xii, figs. 7 and 8). 
202. Lepidogobius gulosus (Grd.). Goby. Indianola (as Gobius gulosus types, Girard, 1858 and 1859, 
and Synopsis) . Taken by ns at Corpus Christi and in Dickinson Bayou near Dickinson . 
203. Gobiosoma bosci (Lac.). Goby. Five specimens from Galveston and nineteen from Corpus 
Christi. 
204. Gobiosoma molestum Grd. Goby. Indianola (type, Girard, 1859, pi. xn, fig. 14). Six speci- 
mens are in our collection from Corpus Christi. 
XL.- TRIGLIDiE. THE GURNARDS. 
205. Prionotus scitulus J. & G. Sea Robin. Taken by us only at Galveston. 
206. Prionotus tribulus C. & Y. Sea Robin. Galveston (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882). Taken by us 
at Galveston and Corpus Christi. 
XLI.— GOBIESOCIDiE. 
207. Gobiesox virgatulus J. & G. One specimen, If inches long to tip of caudal, taken at Galveston. 
Head (from tip of snout to edge of gill-cover), about 2f ; width of head, 3J; depth, 7£; D. 
10; A. 6. Body slender, head low and broad. Eye small, 4^ in head or 2 jn interorbital 
width. Cheeks not prominent; opeicle ending in a sharp spine; cleft of mouth extending 
below front of orbit; teeth of upper jaw in two series, the outer series short, those occupy- 
ing front of jaw enlarged, four of which are canine-like. Eight middle teeth of lower jaw 
incisor-like, edges entire. Color, dark olivaceous, indistinctly mottled and finely punctate; 
under part of head, disk, and ventrals pale and yellowish; dorsal, caudal, and anal dark, 
barred with paler ; belly yellowish brown. This specimen seems to be G. virgatulus, but the 
fin rays are fewer than in that species. 
XLII.— BATRACHIDJE. THE TOADFISHES. 
208. Batrachus tau (L.). Toadfish; Oyster-fish. Indianola (Girard, 1859). One example obtained 
by us at Corpus Christi. 
209. Porichthys porosissimus (C. & V.). Galveston (as Poriclithys plectrodon types, Jordan & Gil- 
bert, 1882). 
XLIII.— URANOSCOPIDiE. THE STAR-GAZERS. 
210. Upsilonphorus y-gisecum (C. & V.). Star-gazer. One specimen of this species was secured 
by us at Galveston. 
211. Astroscopus anoplos (C. & V.). Dogfish. Electric Dogfish. Galveston (Jordan & Gilbert, 
1882), where they report it as being rather common. 
