Jordan and Evcrniann. — Fishes of North America. 2417 



sides of body with a number of minute scattered black spots; along 

 middle of sides is a distant series of light spots as large as pupil, the mar- 

 gin of each with 2 to 4 black specks like those scattered over sides. The 

 dorsal and anal are more widely joined to the caudal than in other 

 species, the fins being higher posteriorly and without perceptible notch. 

 The dorsal contains 93 spines, the anal 2 spines and 47 rays, the pectorals 

 15 rays. Head 9+ in length ; depth 7f . Eye 5 in head ; maxillary 3|; pec- 

 torals ?j\\ caudal 2\\ ventral spine 2A in eye. Bletinius dolichogaster, Pal- 

 las, is undoubtedly identical with Gunnellus ruherrimus, Ciivier & Valen- 

 ciennes. They agree in the very long dorsal and anal fins (D. XCIII, A. 

 II, 50 in dolichogasfer), and in the color. P. dolichogasier is described as 

 having the color brownish olive, shaded with greenish and yellowish, 

 sjiotted with green above the lateral line ; belly yellow ; anal, caudal, and 

 pectorals yellowish; dorsal and anal dusky, with transverse pale bars. 

 Compare with this, details of coloration recently published concerning 

 P. ruberrimus by Bean & Bean (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1896, 248): "Color 

 olive brown, with minute black spots; belly yellowish." In another speci- 

 men, "Across the spinous dorsal there are 20 narrow, nearly vertical pale 

 streaks. Similar streaks to the number of 12 cross the anal." The species 

 is evidently not always red in life. (SoXtxdi, long; yadrrfPf belly.) 



Blennius dolichogaster, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., in, 175, 1811, Kamchatka. (Type in 



Mus. Berlin.) 

 Oimndlus ruherrimus, Cuviek & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xiv, 440, 1839, Kuril 



Islands; after notes of Pallas,* Zoogr. Eosso-Asiat., in, 178, 1811. 

 Gunellus dolichogaster, Cuvier it Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xi, 436, 1836. 

 Gentronotus dolichogaster, Gunther, Cat., 288, 1861. 

 Murcenoides dolichogaster, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 768, 1883. 

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

 Rhodymenichthys ruherrimus, JORDAN & Evermann, Check- List Fishes North and Middle 



America, 474, 1896. 

 Pholis ruberrimus. Bean & Bean, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1896, '248. 



Subgenus PHOLIS. 



2772. PHOLIS FASCIATUS (Bloch & Schneider). 



Head 8 to 9i; depth 7 to 9. D.LXXXVI to LXXXIX; A. 11, 42 to 44; 

 V. I, 1. Head scaleless; mouth decidedly oblique, the tip of lower jaw on 

 level of middle of the eye; width of mouth nearly I head. Eye equal 

 to snout, a little more than interorbital width; ventral spiue | eye, | 

 leugth of mandible; caudal | head; pectoral 2^ in head; vertical fins 

 slightly joined at base. Ground color yellowish gray in life, the sides of 

 a brilliant scarlet; base of dorsal occupied by 10 or 11 oblong blotches 

 of dark brown, which extend to the tips of the fins; these blotches 

 each divided upon the fin by a median spot of the ground color; the 

 areas of the ground color alternating with these blotches are finely 

 speckled with brown, a large spot of brown usually occupying a median 



* Bright red. Form of tcenia,- scales inconspicuous; ventrals each a single scarcely 

 projecting spine ; caudal broad, rounded, distinct. D. CXV. Kuril Islands. (Pallas') 

 Murcei) aides ruberrimus, BEAN, in Nelson, Rept. Nat. Hist. Collections made in Alaska, 



3U5, pi. XIV, fig. 1, 1887. 



