100 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Sub-class Teleostei. Blennioid.e. 



which crosses the operculum obliquely ; two other bands of the same 

 color extend from behind the eye backwards, in nearly a straight 

 line, the distance from one to two lines. Body beneath the lateral 

 lines lighter colored, abdomen yellowish white. Ilead above 

 brownish ; opercula and preopercula yellow ; numerous black spots 

 uffon the dorsal fin. Those upon the first five rays larger. Pec- 

 torals light, with some darker shades. Edge of anal dark colored. 

 Small dark colored spots upon caudal. 



Description. Length including tail, five inches, five lines ; depth 

 across on a line with the anus, one inch ; body much compressed. 

 Body smooth, scales very minute. Length of head from tip of 

 snout to posterior angle of the operculum, is to the entire length of 

 body, as one to three ; jaws somewhat protracted, armed with 

 prominent sharp teeth ; lips large and fleshy : over the nostrils is a 

 minute filament one third of a line in length; circumference of eye 

 two lines. 



The lateral line commences just above the angle of the opercu- 

 lum and having extended two lines, sub-bifurcates ; passing down 

 in a gradual curve a little more than a line, it is continued in a 

 straight course to the base of the caudal fin ; while the upper por- 

 tion abruptly terminates opposite the fourteenth ray of the dorsal 

 fin. 



The dorsal fin, commencing on a line with the posterior angle of 

 the operculum, is continued to the caudal fin ; the first five rays of 

 this fin are shorter than the sixth ; the rays become again shorter 

 as they approach the tail. 



The pectorals are rounded ; they arise on a line with the poste- 

 rior angle of the operculum. 



The ventrals are situated two lines in front of the pectorals ; the 

 rays are united throughout the greater portion of their extent ; 

 extremities free. The anus is situated two and a half inches from 

 the extremity of the jaws. The anal fin commences just halfway 

 between the tip of the snout and the extremity of the tail. The 

 caudal is rounded. 



Ray formula — 



D. 43; P. 13; V. 3 ; A. 30 ; C. 14. 



Professor Gill has removed this species into the genus SHchens of 

 Rheinhardt and describes it under the name of Slicheus suh-hifur- 

 catus, Gill. 



