NO. 1293. JAPANESE BLENNOID FISHES— JORDAN AND SNYDER. 499 



spines as long as eye, caudal fin free from dorsal and anal; ventrals 3 

 in head; pectorals rather large, 1^ in head. 



Color 3"ellowish, irregularly marked with dark spots, a series of 

 about 6 of these spots extending along sides close to base of dorsal 

 fin; a series of smaller spots extending along center of sides from 

 upper base of pectoral to caudal ; dorsal irregularly covered with dark 

 spots; caudal with -1 dark cross bands; anal, ventral, and pectorals 

 plain yellowish. 



Bering Sea to Spitzbergen, south to the Aleutian Islands, the Kurile 

 Islands, and the coasts of Sweden and Norwa3\ This description is 

 taken from a specimen 5i inches long, from Alaska, near Unimak Pass 

 (U. S. Fish Commission steamer Alhatross Station 3309). A few 

 young individuals of this species, formerly known only from the 

 North Atlantic, were taken in Unimak Pass and Bristol Bay, in 29^ 

 to 7(J fathoms. Three small specimens were also taken o& Robben 

 Island, near the coast of Saghalen, which is near the Japanese Kuriles, 

 in 2S fathoms, and one off Karluk, Kadiak Island. The Pacific 

 species should be compared with specimens from northern Europe. 



{laaculatim^ spotted.) 



27. LUMPENUS Reinhardt. 



Lumj^enus REiNHAKirr, Dansk. Vidensk. Sel.>^k. Natur., VI, 1837, p. 110 {lam- 



penus=fabricii) . 

 LcpiofiimrJhis AvRES, Proc. Cal. Ac. Nat. Sci., I, 1854, p. 26 {gntcilit^). 

 CnilmhlrinrniH GiLL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1864, p. 209 {nithilm). 

 L,ptnl,]runai^ GiLL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1864, p. 209 (i^crpenthms). 

 Anisarchuii Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1864, p. 209 {inedlus). 



Body greatlv elongate, moderately compressed, covered with small 

 scales; lateral line indistinct or obsolete. Headlong; snout short; no 

 cirri; ej'es placed high; mouth moderate, teeth in narrow bands on the 

 jaws; palatine teeth present or absent; gill openings prolonged for- 

 ward below, very narrowly united anteriorly to the isthmus, not form- 

 ing a free fold across it. Dorsal composed of numerous, sharp, flexi])le, 

 rather high spines; caudal fin long; anal man3'-ra3ed; pectorals large, 

 more than one-half length of head, the middle rays longest; ventrals 

 well developed. Jugular I, 3 or I, 4; intestinal canal long; pyloric cseca 

 present; no air bladder. Chiefl}' herbivorous. Northern seas. 



{L^ivipen^ a Danish name of Zoarc6Svivlj_)aru^^ with which these fishes 

 were at first confounded.) 



a. LuMi'Exus: Teeth on palatines, none on vomer. 



h. Dorsal spines about 70; eye not niucli shorter than snout; fins with dark cross 



1)ands tniguilJaris, 42. 



66. Dorsal spines 75; eye much shorter than snout; tins all nearly plain. J'owleri, 43. 



