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Subfamily stichj!s.etna.b 

 Genus ulvaria Jordan & Evermann 

 This genus is very close to Eumesogrammus, from 

 which it differs in the absence of the lowermost or third lateral 

 line, the median line being bifurcate. 



327 Ulvaria subbifurcata (Storer) 



Radiated SJiunm/ 

 Pholis subbifurcatus Stoeer, Rep. Fish. Mass. 63, 1839, Naliant, Mass.; 



Hist. Fish. Mass. 92, 1867; De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 150, 1842. 

 Eumcsofjrammus subbifurcatus Goode & Bean, Bull. Essex Inst. XI, 10, 



1879; Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 775, 1883. 

 Vivaria subbifurcata Jordan & Evermann, Check-List Fish. N. & M. A. 



475, 1896; Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. Ill, 2440, 1898, pi. OCCXLV, 



fig. 842. 



Body moderately compressed, fusiform, its greatest depth 

 about one fifth of the length without caudal. Head moderately 

 large, nearly one fourth of total length without caudal; mouth 

 large, the maxillary extending to below the middle of the eye, 

 the jaws equal in front; eye large, a little longer than the snout, 

 one fourth as long as the head. Dorsal origin at a distance 

 from tip of snout equal to length of head; longest spines about 

 in the middle of the fin two fifths as long as the head; first 

 spine two thirds as long as the eye. Caudal rounded, its middle 

 rays one half as long as the head. Anal origin under the 14th 

 spine of the dorsal, the fin not extending to the caudal, its 

 longest ray one third as long as the head. Pectoral ex- 

 tending slightly past the vertical from the ninth si)ine of the 

 dorsal, its length one sixth of total without caudal. Ventral 

 in advance of dorsal origin, three eighths as long as head. Back 

 somewhat arched; ventral outline nearly straight. Median 

 lateral line forked over the pectoral, the upper branch extend- 

 ing about as far back as the extended pectoral. Scales very 

 small. 



D. XLIV; A. 28 to 30; V. I, 3; P. 14. 



" Color, above reddish brown. Opercle and preopercle yel- 

 lowish. Light colored circular patches along the base of the 

 dorsal fin; beneath the lateral line lighter. Abdomen yellowish 



