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The latter are stiff and pungent, and seem to be not articulated. The 

 ventrals of P. ornainn show the same structure. Kuer gives the anal 

 formula as II, 40. This must he a misprint for II, 49, as the artist figures 

 51 rays in the fin, not differentiating the 2 anterior ones, {jyicius, painted. ) 

 TJrocentrus inchis, Knee, Sitzungsb. d. k. Akad. D. Wisseuch., Lvni, 1868, 51, taf. 7, flg. 21, 



Singapore ; an error. 

 Centronotus pictus, Steindachner, Ichth. Beitriige, ix, 25. 1880. 

 Pholis pictus, Jordan &. Gilbert, Rept. Fur. Seal Invest., 1898. 



Subgenus RHODYMENICHTHYS, Jordan ct Evennann. 

 2771. PHOLIS DOLICHOGASTER* (Pallas). 



(Butter-fish.) 



Head 9* in length; depth 8. D. XCII; A. II, 44; pectoral 14; eye 5 in 

 head; maxillary 2|; pectoral 2^; caudal 2; ventral spines 1| in eye. Body 

 elongate, much compressed ; head small, its upper profile convex ; mouth 

 moderate, very oblique, the maxillary reaching to below middle of eye; 

 teeth rather large and blunt, arranged in a single row, the anterior one not 

 enlarged ; interorbital space narrow, without a sharp ridge, its width less 

 than eye; snout equal in length to eye; distance from tip of snout to occi- 

 l)ut 1| in head. Head entirely naked; body covered with small, cycloid, 

 inconspicuous scales. Origin of dorsal over upper end of gill slit, its dis- 

 tance from nape equal to distance from nape to front of eye, the spines 

 toward the anterior end of the fin the highest; origin of anal a little 

 nearer tip of caudal than snout; dorsal and anal confluent with caudal, 

 the anal more broadly connected than dorsal; pectorals small, rounded 

 behind; ventral spines inserted directly under base of pectorals, their 

 length little greater than their distance apart; caudal short and broad, 

 Avell rounded in outline. Bering Sea; recorded from the Kurils, and from 

 Eobben, Bering, and Medni islands, and from Kigiktowik Bay. The speci- 

 men above described was taken at Robbeu Island by Capt. .7. G. Blair, then 

 in command of the guardship Leon. It is 9 inches long and is uniform red 

 incolor, with a few pale dots. Another specimen, 18 cm. long, taken by 

 Mr. Gerald E. H. Barrett-Hamilton at Bering Island, shows the following 

 characters : The color is cherry red on the body and fins, lighter on belly, 

 lower half of cheek and under side of head; lips blackish anteriorly, a 

 narrow black streak running from them along snout to eye and from eye 

 across cheek and opercles toward upper edge of pectoral base; this line 

 separates the deep-red upper part of the head from the lighter area below ; 



* The following species is allied to Pholis dolichog aster: 



Pholis taezaiiowskii (Steindachner). 



Head 9: depth 10; D. LXXXII; A. II, 45; teeth bluntly conical; dorsal very low, 

 .joined to the caudal without constriction. Snout scarcely longer than eye, which is SJ 

 in head. Pectoral 3 in head. Scales very small, the liead naked. Clear, yellowish gray, 

 finely dotted, fins grayish, the pectoral yellowish; a yellowish streak edged with darker 

 from eye to axil. Gulf of Strietok. (Steindachner.) (A personal name.) 



Oentronotus taczanoirsHi, Steindachner, Ichth. Beitr., ix, 24, pi. 3, fig. 1, 1880, Gulf of 

 Strietok, Okhotsk Sea. (Coll. Prof. Dybowsky.) 



