2420 Bidletin ^7, United States National Museum. 



and clicrry red ; traces of about 20 darker bars along sides ; a dark bar 

 downward from eye; fins reddish; a V-shaped mark from eye to occiput, 

 grayish, bordered by jet-black; the common form with about 14 red spots 

 along base of dorsal, each with a curved black bar in front and behind, 

 partly encircling it; others with about as many broad /\, -shaped darker 

 blotches which extend on the fin, the first one or tw.o blotches often shaped 

 as in the former case; anal white, unmarked. Length 12 inches. San 

 Francisco to Bering Sea; very common northward, its range extending 

 to Kamchatka;* very common at Unalaska; always in shallow water. 

 (ornatMS, ornamented.) 



Gunnelhis ornatus, Girahd, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1854, 149 ; Gieard, P.-ic. E. E. Surv., 



X, Fishes, 116, pi. 25b, flgs. 6 ,iud 7, 1858 (Type, No. 490, Presidio, California, Coll. 



Lieut. Trowbridge; No. 491, Shoalwater Bay, Washington, Coll. Dr. J. G. Cooper; 



No. 492, Fort Steilacoom, Washington, Coll. Dr. Geo. Suckley). 

 Centronotus Icetus, Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. Phila. 1873, 27, Sitka or Unalaska (Coll. 



George Davidson) ; A. ii, 33. 

 Murcenoides ornatxiis. Joedan & Gilbebt, Synopsis, 767, 1883. 

 FhoUi ornatus, Gilbert, Kept. TJ. S. Fish Comm. 1893, 450. 



906. GUNNELLOPS, Bleeker. 



Gunnellops, Bleeker, Versl. Ak. Amst., 2, vni,1874, 368 {roseus). 



This genus is apparently distinguished from riioUs by the tapering tail, 

 around which the vertical fins are confluent; pahitine teeth present. 

 (GnmieUus, Gunnel, an old name of Pholis giuinelhis; ooip, appearance.) 



2V75. GUNNELLOPS BOSECS (Pallas). 



D. ca. C; A. ca. 90; P. 9; V. I. Head obtuse, the lower jaw project- 

 ing; eyes large; body very long, compressed, tapering into a slender tail; 

 pectorals small, ovate, hyaline ; 2 spines in place of ventrals ; dorsal extend- 

 ing from the nape to the end of the tail; anal joined to caudal. Color 

 intensely red. Kuril Islands. (Pallas.) Not seen by any recent collector. 

 {roseus, rosy.) 



Blennius roiseus, Pallas, Zoogr. Eosso-Asitit., ni, 177,1811. Kuril Islands. 



Centronotus roseus, Gunther, Cat., in, 290, 1861. 



Qtmncllops roseus, Jordan & Evermann, Check-List Fishes N. and M. A., 474, 1896. 



907. ASTERNOPTERYX, Eiippell. 



Asternopteryx (ROppell MS.) Gunther, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., in, 288, 1861, name only ; 

 Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 769, 1883 (gunelUformis) . 



This genus is closely allied to Pholis, differing chiefly in the entire absence 

 of ventral fins. From Fltolidapus it is distinguished by the shorter pecto- 

 rals and by the more broadly united gill membranes. Greenland. A sin- 

 gle species known. («-, without; dre'pvov, breast; Ttre'pv^, fin.) 



2776. ASTERNOPTERYX GUNELLIFORMLS, Eiippell. 



Head 9; depth 8.}. D. LXXXVII (LXXXI, according to Giinther); A. 

 II, 40. Head and body strongly compressed; head bluntish, snout short, 



^We have specimens collected at Tareinsky Bay by Mr. Barrett-Hamilton. 



