2414 Bulletiyi 4.J, United States Natiojial Museum. 



a single row on jaws; vomer with teeth; iuterorbital a narrow, sharp 

 ridge ; snout about equal to length of eye ; gill opening short, limited to 

 the part below angle of opcrcle, above adnate to shoulder girdle. Origin 

 of dorsal above upper end of gill opening, much nearer occiput than tip 

 of snout; anal spine small, noX, chiniueiliiA i\s\n Apodiclithys ftavidus; origin 

 of anal nearer base of caudal than tij) of snout by a distance equal to 

 twice length of head ; pectorals and ventrals obsolete ; caudal rather long, 

 confluent with dorsal and anal. Color in spirits, light brown, slightly 

 lighter under head and on belly; no markings. The type is a specimen 

 4i inches in length, collected by the Albatross at Santa Rosa Island, oil" 

 Santa Barbara, January 6, 1889. (Type, No. 47579. Coll. Alhatross.) 



Vlvieola sanctce-rosm, Gilbert & Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1896, 455, pi. 55, flg. 2, 

 Santa Rosa Island, California. 



905. PHOLIS (Gronow) Scopoli, 



(Gunnels.) 



Pholis, Gronow, Zoopbylaceum, 78, 1765 (not binomial). 

 Pholis, Scopoli, Introd. Hist. Nat., 456, 1777 (gunnellus). 

 Murcenoides, Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 11, 324, 1800 (sxijef). 

 Centronotus, Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Iclith., 165, 1801 (fasciatus). 

 Dactylepttis, Eaflnesque Anal, de la Nature 1815, 82; substitute for Murcenoides. 

 Centronotus, Cuvier, Regne Animal, Ed. 2, 11, 239, 1829 {gunnellus). 

 Ophisomus,* SwAiNSON, Nat. Hist. Claas'n. Anira., 11, 277, 1839 {gunnellus). 

 TTrocentrus, Knee, Sitzber. K. Akad. Wiss. TVien, lviii, 1868, 51 {pictus). 

 lihodymenicMhgs, Jordan & EvERMANN, Check-List Fishes, 474, 1896 {ruherrimus^idoli- 

 chogaater). 



Body long and low, considerably compressed, somewhat band-shaped, 

 the tail sloAvly tapering; hend small, compressed, naked ;t mouth rather 

 small, oblique; jaws with rather small teeth in narrrow bauds or single 

 series; vomer and palatines usually toothless; gill membranes broadly 

 united, free from the isthmus ; scales very small, smooth ; no lateral line. 

 Dorsal tin long and low, beginning near the head, composed entirely of 

 stiff, sharp, subequal spines; anal similar in form, of 2 spines and many 



* Substitute for Ounnellus, the latter being a barbarous word derived from " gunwale." 

 "Nomina generica quae ex Graca vel Latina lingua radicemnon habent, regiciendasunt." 

 This rule has never been generally adopted. 



T In Pholis nebulosus, a tJapanese species, the head is scaly. This species is the type of 

 a distinct genus ; which may be called 



ENEDRIAS, Jordan .i: Gilbert, new genus. 



Enedrias, Jordan & Gilbert, new genus {nebulosus). 



This genus ditfers from Pholis in the scaly head. {h'iSpa, lurking place.) 



Enedrias nehulosa (Schleijel). 



Head 7i to 8; depth 8^ to 9^. D. LXXX; A. 11, 39. Dorsal .and anal somewhat con- 

 nerted to caudal; pectoral 2^ to 25 in head. Head small. Body everywhere freckled 

 with dark blotches; 12 dark triangular blotches along base of dorsal; "a ro\7 of dusky 

 blotches on middle of side po.steriorly ; 10 or 12 dark blotches on base of anal ; caudal dusky, 

 edged with pale, 2 pale cro.ss strealis on top of head; pectoral pale. Northern Japan to 

 Okhotsk Sea, Gulf of Strietok; our specimens from Hakodate, {nebulosus, clouded.) 



Gunnellus nebulosus, Schlehel. Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 138, 1850, Bay of Magi, Japan. 



Gentronotus neb1llos^ls, Steindachner, Ichth. Beitr., i.\. 24, 1880. 



Enedrias nebulosus, Jordan & Gilbert, Kept. Fur Seal Invest., 1898, with plate. 



