114. BLENNIID^ - STICELEUS. 775 



and palatine teeth present; 3 lateral lines on each side, the median 

 continued to the base of the caudal ; ventral fin half as long as the pec- 

 toral, whicli is much shorter than head; dorsal fill terminating just at 

 root of caudal. Head 4; depth nearly 6. D. XLIX; A. 34; V. 3. 

 Greenland. ( Giinther.) 



(Clinus pm'cisus Kroyer, Natnrh. Tidsskr. i, 25, 1836: Clinus unimacitJntus Reinli. 

 Vid. Selsk. vii, 114, 1837: Slichceus unimaculalus Giinther, iii, 283; Gill, 1. c. 210.) 



aa. Lower lateral line wanting. 



113. E. subbifurcatus (Storer) Gill. 



Brownish, with several round paler blotches above at the base of 

 the dorsal fin; spaces between these blotches darker, appearing like 

 bars; a broad black bar crossing the opercle obliquely from below the 

 orbit, and two parallel dark bars running backwards from orbit; belly 

 yellowish white; dorsal fin with numerous black dots. Mouth rather 

 large; maxillary reaching to below orbit; back somewhat arched; ven- 

 tral outline nearly straight; eyes large; lower lateral line wanting; 

 upper branch of lateral line about two-thirds length of head. Head 4^; 

 depth nearly 5. D. XLIY ; A. 30. North Atlantic, south to Cape Cod. 



(Pholis SHbbifnrcatiis Storer, Eep. Fish. Mass. 1839, 03.) 



417. STICH^EUS Reinhardt. 



(Reinhardt, Dansk. Videusk. Natur. og Math. Afhaudl. 1837, 109: type Blenniiis punc- 

 tatus Fabricms. ) 



Body comparatively short and compressed, covered with small scales; 

 teeth on jaws, vorner, and palatines. Lateral line present, single, me- 

 dian; pectorals and veutrals well developed. Dorsal moderately high, 

 of spines only, free from the caudal ; gill-openings continued forward 

 below, the membranes narrowly united to the isthmus; pyloric cceca 

 present, (a-l^du), to set in rows.) 



1I4. S. punctatns (Fabric.) Kroyer. 



Scarlet ; dorsal with a series of round black spots, white-edged pos- 

 teriorly; head below with 5 brownish cross-bands; a brown streak 

 from snout through eye. Snout subconical. Dorsal spines of mod- 

 erate length. Eye half interorbital width. Head 5^ in total length; 

 depth 8. D. XL; A. I, 35. (Giinther.) Polar seas, south to Cape Cod 

 and Alaska. 



(Blennius punctaius Fabric. Faun. Gron. 153, 1780: Kroyer, Naturh. Tidsskr. i, 377, 

 1837; Giinther, iii, 283.) 



