Supraorbital tentacle with fringe of 5 slender points. Maxillary 
to pupil. Mouth terminally inferior, lower jaw little shorter. 
Teeth 24 above, 20 below, uniserial, compressed, slender, and 
canine each side behind, lower of which little longer, Inter- 
orbital moderate, concave. Gill-opening about wide as pectoral 
base, Color in alcohol dull .uniform brownish, markings if present 
in life now faded. Length 45 mm, One without locality, likely 
from Rio Janeiro? 
We have compared the type of Blenniys germinatus Wood, from 
Charleston, $.C.} which is still in the Academy. 1+ has the same 
number of teeth and much larger and stronger canines, 
Blennius (Hypleurochilus ) paytensis Steindachner differs in 
being described without canines. Its size is not given, 
H. geminatus has not been recorded from the West Indies or 
South America, 
Hypleurochilus’periophthalmoides (Macleay). 
Head 3 1/2; depth 3 7/8; D. XII, 18; A. II, 18; P. I, 12; 
snout 4 in head; eye 2 4/5; maxillary 2 7/8; interorbital 2 2/3; 
head width 11/2. Snout convex, length 3/4 its width. Maxillary 
to eye center, and preorbital very narrow. Mouth terminal, lower 
jaw slightly shorter. Teeth large, simple, slightly compressed, 
uniserial; pair of wide-set canines in lower jaw. Interorbital 
convex, broad, Gill-opening small slit, lateral, before pectoral 
base and about long as width of same, Color in alcohol pale 
brownish with traces of about transverse deeper or cross~bars, 
