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coast of Kamchatka are uot evidently different from the current figures and 

 descriptions of Atlantic specimens. (Eu. ) {medms, middle. ) 



Clinus medius, Reinhabdt, Dansk. Vidensk. Afh., vn, 1838, 194, Greenland. 



Liimpenus medius, Keoyee, Naturh. Tidsskr., i, 377, 1837; Jordan S: Gilbert, Synopsis, 



777, 1883. 

 Stichceus medius, Gunthkr, Cat., iii, 281, 1861. 

 Anisarchus medius, Gill, Proo. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, 210. 

 Lumpenus medius, Collett, Nor.ske Nord-Havs Exp., 62, 1880; Jordan & Gilbert, Rept. 



Fur Seal Invest., 1898. 



Subgenus LUMPENUS. 



2791. LIIJIPKNCS ANGUILL.iUIS (Pallas). 



Head 8; depth 14. D. LXXI; A. 46 (45 to 50); V. I, 4; B. 7- Cheeks 

 scaly ; moutli somewhat ohlique, the lower jaw included ; maxillary reach- 

 ing front of pupil; teeth (m palatines, none on the vomer; a single series 

 of rather long, conical, and not very closely-set teeth in each jaw. Gill 

 openings prolonged forward a distance greater than length of snout; 

 pyloric ca'ca 4, unequal. Fins all comparatively high, pectorals | length 

 of head, the middle rays longest; ventrals ^ length of head; dorsal and 

 anal distinct from the pointed caudal, which is nearly as long as head. 

 Olive green above, pale below ; sides marked above with dark olive brown ; 

 a series of more or less distinct oblong blotches of olive brown along mid- 

 dle of sides; dorsal liarred or spotted; anal pale; operclo with a dark 

 blotch; head dusky above. Length 18 inches. San Francisco to Alaska; 

 very abundant northward to Sitka and Unalaska; originally recorded from 

 Kamchatka, (angttillaris, eel-like.) 



Blennius anguillaris, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., ll, 176, 1811, Kamchatha and Aleutian 



Islands. (Coll. Billings and Merk.) 

 Septogunnelhis gracilis, Ayres, Proc. Gal. Ac. Nat. Sci., l, 1855, 26, San Francisco. 

 Gunnellus anguillaris, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xi, 434, 1836. 

 Lumpenus anguillaris, GiRAED, Pac. R. R. Surv., x, Fishes, 123, pi. 25&, figs. 1 to 3, 1858; 



Storer, Synopsis, 121, 1846; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 777, 1883; Jordan & 



Starks, Fishes Pnget Sound, 848, 1895. 

 Stichceus atiguillaris, Gunther, Cat., iii, 282, 1861. 



2792. LUMPENUS MACKATI (Gilbert). 



Head 65; dei)th 13 or 14; eye 8 in head; snont 4. D. LXIX; A. II, 41. 

 Very elongate. Head compressed and high, especially anteriorly, the 

 upper profile of snout very convex, the upper jaw decidedly longer than 

 the lower. Mouth nearly horizontal. Maxillary reaching vertical from 

 front or middle of pupil, its length 3* to 3| in head. Teeth small, in a 

 narrow band in jaws; a single series of weak teeth on palatines; vomer 

 toothless. Gill openings continued forward to below middle of cheeks, 

 the membranes then narrowly joined to isthmus; gill rakers short and 

 weak, about 10 on horizontal limb of arch. Eye small, its horizontal 

 diameter i longer than its vertical, slightly longer than iuterorbital 

 width. Distance from snout to nape equaling length of postorbital part 

 of head. Opercles large, continued to beyond base of pectorals. Dorsal 



