114. BLENNIID^E CHIROLOPHUS. 765 



reddish; about 5 indistinct dark cross-bars; a distinct ocellated black 

 spot on posterior part of dorsal fin; caudal fin translucent, speckled; 

 a black bar at its base; base of pectorals violet, bordered with black, 

 the rest of the fin checkered; ventrals barred. Head stout, broad, 

 conical; niouth little oblique; eyes large; nasal, supraocular and nu- 

 chal regions with fringed cirri, those at the nape flap-like. First and 

 second dorsal spines low, a little higher than the third, which, in turn, 

 is higher than the fourth, and separated from it by an interspace; the 

 membrane between the third and fourth spines deeply einarginate; 

 anterior spines not forming a separate fin; highest anterior spine not 

 higher than the highest of the posterior part of fin. Head 4; depth 4&. 

 D. Ill, XXVIII, 1; A. II, 20; V. I, 3; Lat. 1. 38. L. 2 inches. San 

 Diego, California, southward to Mazatlan ; abundant in rock-pools. 

 (Cremnobates integripinnis Rosa Smith, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 147.) 



41O. CHIROLOPHUS Swainson. 

 (Rlenniops Nilsson: Carelophus Kroyer. ) 



(Cliirolopltls Swainson, Class. Fish, ii, 275, 1839: type Blennius yarrclli C. & V. = Blcn- 

 nius ascanii Walb.) 



Body moderately elongate, covered with small scales; no lateral line; 

 snout short; no teeth on vomer or palatines; teeth in jaws small; gill- 

 menibranes united, free from the isthmus; nostrils, orbital region, and 

 neck with dermal flaps, the supraorbital flaps high. Dorsal fin long, 

 of spines only; ventrals well-developed, jugular; caudal fin distinct. 

 No air-bladder or pyloric coaca. Northern seas; one species known 

 from Europe; a second species, imperfectly described by Pallas, may 

 be provisionally placed with it. (x&p, hand ; Xoyoq, crest ; apparently 

 a, head, was intended, which would make " Carelophus.") 



1167. C. (?) polyactocepiiaBais (Pallas) J. &. G. 



Form of Zoarces. Body compressed, covered with soft imbedded 

 scales; head very short, retuse; lower jaw longer; "both jaws without 

 teeth ";(?) eyes approximate; interorbital space with 2 minute cartilag- 

 inous spinules; 2 large superciliary cirri; vertex behind orbits subex- 

 cavated, with 2 series of erect cirri. Dorsal fin beginning at the neck, 

 extending to the caudal; ventrals midescribed. D. LXX. Karat- 

 schatka (Pallas) and Alaska. 



(Blennius polyactocephalus Pallas, Zool. Ross.-Asiat. iii, 179, 1811.) 



