FISHES. 305 



Anoplaechus ateopurpureus (Kittlitz). Purple Bleuuy. 



32958. (285, 236, 2d3.) Saint Michaels, summer, 13S0. Saud-fisli. 



32973. (87a.) Septeralier, 1377. 



MuE-^NOiDES OENATUS (Grd.). Spotted Guuuel. 



32974. (37fl.) September, 1373. 



MuEJSJS'OiDES EUBEEEiMUS (C. & V.). Buttei-fi.sb. {Plate XIV, Fig. 1.) 

 32978. (77, 78.) TJnalakleet, Korton Sound, summer, 1377. 

 [This beautiful specie.s was imperfectly knowu from Kamchatka, but uot before from Alaska. 

 The brilliant color is persistent in alcohol. lu our specimeus the dorsal spines vary from 92 to 

 9J.— T. H. Bean.] 



A specimen was brought me from Kigiktowik on October 15, 1877, and on October 27, 1878, 

 where, accoding to the Eskimo, they find it and one or two other species lying nearly dormant under 

 large stones that are left exposed near shore by extraordinary low tides. 



Chieolophus polyactocephalus (Pallas). Tufted Blenny. (Plate XY, Fig. 2.) 



32836. (54.) Saint Michaels, September, 1877. 

 32934. (87.) Saint Michaels, September, 1877. 



Atvaeehichas leptueus Beau. Wolf-fish (Eu-chn-ldul-). (Plate XY, Fig. 1, juv.) 



29909. (333.) 



29910. (261, 262, 264, 265.) Saint Michaels, May, 1331. 



, Wo//;/!s7t.— Xos. 261 and 262 were caught May 23; N<is. 264 and 265 are S and 5 , Saint 

 Michaels, May 24. The smaller (265) is the 2 and is dirty yellowish mottled and indistinctly 

 blotched. The S is uniformly covered with small irregular bluish-black spots, separated by irreg- 

 ular vei-miculated dirty whiti.sh lines, that give the whole fish a flnely-marbled appearance. The 

 iris of both is hazel. 



29911. (220,221.) Saint Michaels, June 1, 1880. 



Saint Michaels, June 1, ISSO, just as ice is breaking up; around rocky points in 2 to 3 fathoms 

 of water. 



(220) Twenty-five inches long, 5i inches deep posterior to base of jiectoral, which is 8J inches 

 from tip of snout ; 3^ inches deep at anus, and 4^ inches deep just in front of anus. Anus midway 

 between snout and end of caudal peduncle. 



(221) Length, 23^ inches; snout to posterior tip of pectoral, 7A inches; body, 4J inches deep 

 at posterior tip of pectoral, 3i inches deep just in front of anus, and 2^ inches deep just back of 

 same. 



Color : Iris yellow ; the entire body a dark leathery-olive brownish, clouded with indistinct 

 shading of blackish, and a close inspection shows numerous irregular black spots and dots, uone of 

 which exceed I-jV to l^V of an inch iu diameter and are very obscure. The fins are similarly 

 marked and colored, but are all much darker than the rest of the body, which, however, at a short 

 distance, has a blackish tinge. The eye is encircled posteriorly and iuferiorly by a series of eight 

 to ten large distinct mucous pores. The thick fleshy lips are above smooth and on lower jaw bor- 

 dered with well-marked papilla;. The two parts of the upper jaw are movable independently of 

 each other. 



32919. (130.) Kigiktowik, October 2.-). 



This specimen was taken from under a rock at low tide at Kigiktowik, October 25. Colors 

 dark reddish brown, becoming lighter on ventral surface, and with numerous fine irregular lines on 

 head in front and below eye and on the lips, chin, and abdomen, sides, also on dorsal and anal. 

 Caudal a trifle darker than body with no markings. Dorsal almost black along outer half, same 

 as body on inner half, variegated by irregular light lines rather coarser than on abdomen and 

 head. A series of faint light spots of about the size of eye, but with ill-defined borders, extend 

 from front of dorsal to its posterior extremity on the dorsal surface and iu a line parallel to the 

 dorsal fin. 



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