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Spines of dorsal stiff and sharp, those near middle of fin equal in 

 length to snout; membrane of fin thin, not connected with caudal, not 

 incised between the rays. Rays of anal near middle of fin, ii in head; 

 membrane thick, incised, free tips of rays fleshy. Caudal truncate, 

 2 in head. Pectoral rather pointed, the upper rays longest, 1^ in 

 head. Ventrals pointed, 4^ in head. 



Color in alcohol, whitish below, darker above; upper parts spec- 

 kled with brownish black; anal edged with white, lower part of 

 pectorals white, ventrals white. 



Here described from a specimen 500 mm. long from Hakodate. An 

 example almost as large from Mito, north of Tokyo, presented by the 

 Imperial University, does not differ from the one described. 



(Named for its discoverer, Grigorjew.) 



26. LEPTOCLINUS Gill. 



Ctenodon Nilsson, 8kandinav. Faiiu., IV, 1853, p. 190 {macidatus) (name three 



times preoccupied).^ 

 Leptodinus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1864, p. 209 (actdeatus). 



Bodv much elongated; lateral line obsolete; teeth on jaws, vomer, 

 and palatines; pectoral fins with the upper rays shortened; caudal fin 

 subtruncate. Arctic seas. This genus is close to Lumpenus, differing 

 mainly in the form of the pectoral. 



(A-iTrros, slender; CI Inns.) 



41. LEPTOCLINUS MACULATUS (Fries). 



Clinus macidulux: ¥h\&,, Kgl. Vet. Ak. Ilaiull., 18o7, p. 49; Bohiislaii, Sweden. 

 Liimpenus actdeatus Reinhardt, Kong. Dansk. Vid. Selsk., VI, 1837, p. 190; no 



description. 

 Clinus aculeaius Reinhardt, Dan^^k. Videnyk. .Selsk., Natur. Afli., VII, ]838, 



pp. 114, 122, 194; Spitzbergen. 

 Ctenodon rnaculatus Nilsson, Skand. Fauna, IV, 1853, p. 190. 

 tSiichiEus macidatus GtiNTiiER, Cat., Ill, 1861, p. 281. 

 Liimpenus aculeatas KnoYER, Naturhist. Tidsskr., I, 1862, p. 377. 

 Stichwus actdeatus GtJNTHER, Cat., Ill, 1861, p. 282. — Collett, NorskeNord-Havs 



Exp., 1880, p. 67. 

 Lumpenus rnaculatus Jordan and Gilbert, Synopsis, 1883, p. 777. — Lilljerorg, 



Sveriges Och Norges Fish., 1891, p. 500. 

 Leptodinus rnaculatus Gilbert, Rept. U. S. Fish Comni., 1893, p. 450. — Jordan 



and Evermann, Fishes N. and M. Amer., Ill, p. 2433; Robben Island, 



Kadiak, Unimak Pass, Bristol Bay. 



Head 5; depth 8; D. LX (LVHI-LX); A. 36 (85-88). 



Eye large, 3i in head; snout short and blunt, -i'i in head, maxillary 

 reaching past middle of eye, 2^ in head. Teeth in jaws, vomer, and 

 palatines, jaws each having two strong canines in front. Scale small, 

 cycloid. First 3 or 4 dorsal spines short and free; longest dorsal 



^Ctenodon Wagler, 1830, a lizard; Ehrenberg, 1838, a rotifer; and Swainson, 1839, 

 a fish. 



