2422 Btilletin //, United States National Museum. 



from siiDut loss than length oi" head; distance from origin of anal to tip of 

 8nout 2,i in length to hase of caudal; pectoral short and hroad, rounded, 

 2^ in head. Scales small, omhedded, those on the anterior part of the 

 body concealed by the thickened integument, as in A. atroiyiirjnireus. 

 Coloration in our specimens nearly uniform dark olive, with obscure dusky 

 mottliiigs on the side. In 1 specimen there is a light bar extending 

 obliquely downward and backward from eye, with a dark bar above and 

 below it. the 3 separated by narrow light gray lines; caudal narrowly 

 cross-bauded with light and dark as in A. atropurpureus, and the anal 

 obliquely barred with the same. In the smallest specimen is a series of 

 roundish spots about as large as eye along back just below dorsal tin; 

 each spot seems to have a narrow dark margin, a light ring, a dusky ring, 

 and a light center ; a series of similar but smaller spots along middle of 

 sides posteriorly ; the colors were probably brighter and more varied in 

 life. Western part of Bering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk. Here described 

 from 3 small specimens, 3^ to 9 inches long, taken at Tareinsky Bay, 

 Kamchatka, by Mr. Barrett-Hamilton; 2 other fine specimens since taken 

 by Arthur W. Greeley in Monterey Bay ; the only ones recorded since 

 Pallas. They difler from specimens of A. atropurpureus in the higher 

 crest, the more numerous fin rays, and in having the gill membranes with 

 a distinct free margin. {dXeHvoop, cock; Ad0o5, crest.) 



Blennius alectrolophus, Pallas, Zoogr. Kosso-Asiat., ni, 174, 1811, Island of Talek, Gulf of 



Penshin, Okhotsk Sea. 

 Ounnellus alec.trolo2>hus, CuviER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XI, 447, 1836. 

 Centronotvs alectrolojjhus, Gunthee, Cat., in, 289, 1861. 

 Anoplarchus alectroloxihus, Jokdan & Gilbert, Kept. Fur Seal Invest., 1898. 



2778. ANOPLARCHUS ATROPURPUBEUS (Kittlitz). 



Head 6.V in body; depth 7. D. LV; A. 40; eye 5J^ in head; maxillary 2i; 

 pectoral 2^ ; caudal If. Head with a fleshy crest, which rests on a ridge 

 of bone, its height in older examples about equal to eye; mouth rather 

 large, the maxillary reaching beyond the orbit. Dorsal and anal com- 

 paratively high, barely connected with the base of caudal; nape midwaj"^ 

 between origin of dorsal and pupil. Body naked anteriorly, scaled behind. 

 Color grayish olive, varying to brown; everywhere above finely marked 

 with blackish reticulations ; along each side of back a series of small, 

 irregular, sharply delined grayish spots; a series of small pale spots along 

 lateral line; belly pale; crest and middle line of back rather pale; under 

 parts of head yellowish; an oblique, wedge-sha]»ed, pale streak extending 

 dowuAvard and backward from the eye, bounded on each side by a sharp 

 light-red line, and then by a dusky area; lower jaw mottled; dorsal 

 olivaceous, speckled, a blackish spot on front; anal olive, tinged with 

 led; pectorals dull orange, barred at base; caudal reddish, with narrow 

 pale streaks, and a light bar at base ; color sometimes nearly plain purplish, 

 but more often grayish and mottled. Alaska to San Francisco ; abundant 

 northward; common in Bering Sea. Here described from specimens from 

 Neah Bay, Straits of Fuca, Washington. We have also specimens from the 

 Pribilof Islands, {ater, black; purpareus, purple.) 



