JAPANESE BLENNOID FISHES— JORDAN AND SNYDER. 501 



and upward along cheek and side of head, uniting with scales of body; 

 snout, top of head, chin, throat, opercle and space along- preopercle 

 naked; bod}' covered with minute scales; membranes of dorsal iind 

 anal naked, membranes of caudal with minute scales between the ra3^s. 



Dorsal inserted immediately above gill-opening: spines strong, the 

 anterior ones short, about equal to diameter of ])upil, the posterior 

 ones more slender, longer, 3^ in head; membrane of dorsal tiiin, not 

 connected with the caudal. Anal inserted below twenty-eighth spine 

 of dorsal. The spines short, rather ])lunt, the rays longest on anterior 

 third of tin, 2^ in head; membrane of tin thin, with shallow incisions 

 between the rays, not connected with the caudal. Caudal rounded, 

 li in head. Pectoral sharply rounded, 1} in head. Spine of ventral 

 stout, the tin small, pointed, 4 in head. 



Color in spirits light yellowish brown, a dark brown band with 

 irregular margins along base of dorsal, a l)roken band al)out as wide 

 as pupil, forming a row of elongate brown spots extending from upper 





I'll,. 2.S.— lAMl^EiNUo FuWLEKl. 



edge of gill-opening to l)ase of caudal, small clouds of l)rown on upper 

 half of bodv; top of head mottled with brown, cheeks with indistinct 

 spots, opercles with a blackish spot, the membrane lining gill-chaml)er 

 l)lackish. Fins without bands or spots, except a small, indistinct spot 

 near base of caudal. 



Descriljed from a specimen 315 mm. long, type ' 70Tl>, Stanford 

 ichthyological collections, from Kushiro; presented by Mr. Nozawa 

 director of the museum of Sapporo. 



The species differs notably from Luinpenus, anguillaris in having a 

 smaller eye, more spines in the dorsal, and in not having banded fins; 

 the ventral is also probably shorter, being about equal to snout. 



A specimen in the Imperial Museum (No. 599) from Nemuro proba- 

 bly belongs to this species. D. LXXVI; P. li in head; ventral not 

 longer than snout; maxillary reaching to middle of eye. A specimen 

 in the museum at Hakodate, also probal^ly belonging to this species 

 rather than to the preceding one, has 75 spines in the dorsal. 



(Named for Mr. Henry Weed Fowler.) 



Family II. ANARHICHADID^. 



WOLF-FISHES. 



Bod}" oblong or elongate, covered with rudimentary scales; no lat- 

 eral line. Head scaleless, without cirri, its bones very thick and 

 strong, the profile strongly decurved. Mouth very large, ol)lique, 



