Jorda7i and Evermann.— Fishes of North America. 2439 



Slenniiis serpentimis, Storee, Proc. Bost. Soc. Kat. Hist., ill, 1848, 30, Massachusetts Bay, 

 from the stomach of a codfish (Coll. Capt. Nathaniel E. Atwood) ; Storer, Uist. Fish. 

 Mass. 169, pi. 18, f. 1, 18G7. 



Gunnellus islandimts, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xi, 433, 1836. 



Stichceus islandicus, GiJNTHER, Cat., ill, 281, 1861. 



Lumpenug lampetreeformis, Collett, Norske Nonl-Havs Exp., 71,1880; Jordan & Gil- 

 bert, Synopsis, 778, 1883. 



Leptoblenninus nerpentinus, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 778, 1883. 



919. STICHiEUS, Reiiibiirdt. 



Stichceus, Reinhardt, Pansk. Videusk. Katiir. og Math. Af handl. 1837, 109 (ptinctatus). 

 Notogranimiis, Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, 1881, 147 (rothrocki) ; young. 



Body njotlerately elongate, covered with small scales; teeth on jaws, 

 vomer, and palatines. Lateral line present, single, running along side of 

 back; pectorals and ventrals well developed. Dorsiil moderately high, 

 of spines only; gill openings continued forward below, the membranes 

 scarcely united to the isthmus; pyloric cieca present. Arctic seas. 

 {6TIXO.0J, to set in rows.) 



279.5, STICH.EU.S FUNCTATUS (Fabricius). 



Head U) depth about 7. D. XLYIII or XLVIX; A. 32 to 35; eye twice 

 interorbital width, 4^ in head; snout subconical, 4 in head. Maxillary 

 about equal to snout, 3| in head, reaching slightly beyond front of eye. 

 Narrow bands of teeth in the jaws and present on vomer and palatines, 

 the outer series in the upper jaw and the inner series in lower jaw enlarged. 

 Scales small, cycloid; head and cheeks scaleless; longest dorsal spines 

 slightly longer than snout. The membrane from last dorsal spine join- 

 ing extreme base of upper caudal ray; anal wholly distinct; pectorals 

 rather long, reaching vent, ly in head; ventrals 2^ in head. Numerous 

 large pores scattered over top and sides of head. Lateral line rather close 

 to back, running along the up])er fourth of height of body and ending 

 abruptlj' at about | the length of body. Color Inight scarlet, the head 

 marked below with 5 or (5 brown reticulations; a brown streak from snout 

 through eye ; fins irregularly marked by dark bars or spots ; a narrow row 

 of 5 large round black spots, each with a white band near its posterior 

 margin, occurring at regular instances along dorsal tin; a row of about 8 

 large dark spots on anal. Arctic seas, from Greenland to northern Siberia, 

 south to Bristol Bay and Newfoundland. Our description (from Dr. Gil- 

 bert) taken from a sijecimen, about 5 inches in length, from Karta Bay, 

 Alaska. It agrees very closely with the account by Ensign H. G. Dresel, of 2 

 examples from Godhavu, Disco Island, Greenland. The Alaska species must 

 be the same as the other. Dresel finds the depth 7f in length. Dr. Gilbert fur- 

 ther observes : A single specimen, 86 mm. long, was dredged in Bristol Bay, 

 Alaska, .Station 3239, dei)th 11^ fathoms. Several larger individuals were 

 seined in Karta Bay, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, July 12, 1889. The 

 position of the lateral line in this species is incorrectly given as "median" 

 by Jordan & Gilbert in the Synopsis, pp. 755 and 775. Cuvier and Valen- 

 ciennes, in their description, drawn from the writings of Fabricius, state 



