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wliite. From beneath the eye, a broad black band, which is 

 widest at its origin, crosses the opercle obliquely; two other 

 bands of the same color extend from behind the eye backward, 

 in nearly a straight line, to a distance of from one to two lines. 

 Numerous black spots on the dorsal fin [one of these extending 

 from the fifth to the tenth sj)ine]. Pectorals light, with darker 

 shades. Anal fin with a dark colored margin. Caudal with 

 small dusky spots," sometimes forming about four narrow con- 

 centric bars. 



The fish reaches the length of about 6 inches. 



This species is very rare in the North Atlantic, south to Cape 

 Cod. Storer records the capture at Nahant Mass. in 1838. It 

 has been taken by the U. S. Fish Commission at Grand Manan 

 and Halifax, and by Prof. Verrill olf Anticosti. De Kay had not 

 met with the species in New York waters and his description 

 is copied from that of Storer in his report upon Fishes of Massa- 

 chusetts, page 63, 1839. De Kay called it the radiated shanny. 

 Its occurrence in New York waters remains to be noted. 



Genus stichaeijs Eeinhardt 

 Body moderately elongate, covered with small scales; teeth 

 on jaws, vomer, and palatines. Lateral line present, single, 

 running along side of back; pectorals and ventrals well devel- 

 oped. Dorsal moderately high, of spines only; gill openings con- 

 tinued forward below, the membranes scarcely united to the 

 isthmus; pyloric caeca present. Arctic seas. 



328 Stichaeus punctatus (Fabricius) 

 Spotted Blenny 



Blennius pvnctatus Fabricius, Fauna Groul. 153, 1780, Greenland. 



Climis punctatus Richaedson, Fauna Bor.-Amer. Ill, 88, 1836. 



Gunnellus punctatus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. XI, 428, 

 1836. 



Stichaeus punctatus Gv^tseb,, Oat. Fish. Brit. Mus. Ill, 283, 1861; Jordan 

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

 Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. Ill, 2439, 1898, pi. COCXLV, fig. 841, 1900. 



Body compressed, tapering at both ends, moderately elongate, 

 its greatest depth one sixth to one seventh of total length with- 

 out caudal. Head two ninths of total length without caudal; 



