114. BLENNIID^E - DELOLEPIS. 779 



length of bead; ventrals moderate, 2 in liead. Head 9; depth 15. 

 D. LXXV; A. 50; V. I, 3. L. 12 inches. Cape Cod to Greenland. 



(Blcnniitft scrptntimis Storer, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, iii, 30, 1848; Gill, Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Phi la. 1864, 209.) 



!i. lampetrseformis (Wall). ) J. & G. 

 Yellowish, with numerous brown spots of different sizes; caudal 

 banded. No teeth on vomer or palatines; maxillary reaching front of 

 eye. Caudal free, acuminate; first three or four rays of dorsal short 

 and almost free; pectoral convex, shorter than head; vent well for- 

 ward. Head 9. D. LXXII; A. 50; V. I, 3. (Collctt.) Greenland to 

 Norway and Spitsbergen. 



(Dlenniu-s lumpetraiformis Walbauin, Artedi, Pise. 1792, 184: Clhius nebulosus Nilss. 

 Skaiid. Faun. 1855, 195: Sticlia'tt* islandicus Giinther, iii, '281: Blennius graciUs Stuwitz. 

 Nye Magaz. f. Nat.urv. i, 40(5, 1838: Clinus nebulosus Fries Vet. Akad. Haudl. 1837, 

 55: Leptobh-nnius graciJis Gill, 1. c. 210: Lumpenus lampetrasformis Collett, Norske Nord- 

 havs Exp. 1880, 71.) 



421. DELOtEPIS Bean. 



(Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas. 1882: type Delolepis virgatus Bean.) 



Body anguilliform, moderately compressed posteriorly, covered with 

 small, imbricated, cycloid scales; vent nearly median; a small anal 

 papilla; lateral line continuous, straight, nearly median, composed of 

 open pores, without prominent tubes. Head oblong, subquadraugular, 

 naked, the muciferous channels well developed, the vertex shallow- 

 concave; snout short, obtuse; nostril single, tubular, close behind pre- 

 m axillary; eyes small, high, separated by an interspace of moderate 

 width, surrounded by a series of shallow pits; mouth wide, oblique, 

 terminal, the lower jaw projecting beyond the upper; lips fleshy; pre- 

 maxillaries slightly protractile, with 2 rows of small conical teeth; a 

 few larger teeth at the sj'mphysis; vomer and palatines with a few 

 rather large teeth; tongue smooth, adherent; mandible with a few 

 shallow pits, the series continued on the posterior border of preop- 

 ercle; opercles unarmed. Gill-membranes attached to a narrow isth- 

 mus; gill-rakers very short; pseudobrauchise present. Branchioste- 

 gals G. Pectorals short, placed low, their bases vertical; veutrals 

 none; dorsal beginning above gill-opening, composed entirely of 

 spines; anal with 2 spines and many split rays; dorsal and anal con- 

 tinuous with the caudal, which is rather long and pointed. Intestine 

 short, with a few pyloric cosca. (tir^oq, visible; te-<.~, scale.) 



1193. I>. virgatus Bean. 

 Brownish yellow; a brown stripe along lateral line; another along 



