No.i-9;5. JAPANESE BLENXOID FISHES— JORDAN AND SNYDER. 471 



i8. PHOLIS PICTUS (Kner). 



Uroceutms pidus Knek, Sitzungs)). Denkhihr. Akad. Wissensch., LVIII, 1868, 

 p. 51, pi. VII, fig. 21; Singapore; an error, probably from Decastris Bay. 



Centronottis pidus Steindachner, Ichth. Beitriige, IX, 1880, p. 25. 



Pholis vidus Jordan and Gilbert, Rept. Fur Seal Invest., 1898, p. 383; Shana 

 Bay, Iturup Island. — Jordan and Evermann, Fish. N. and M. Am., Ill, p. 

 2415; Iturup. 



Head 9i to lOi; depth 8 to 10 D. XCIII or XCIV; A. II, 40 to 

 48. Eye as long as snout; mouth oblique, the upper jaw the longer, 

 reaching- to front of eye; pectoral very short, scarcely longer than 

 eye, 3 to 4 in head; anal said to have an isolated channeled spine hid- 

 den in the skin, but our specimens show no peculiar structure. Color, 

 yellowish, with 2 lengthwise series of large oblong blackish blotches, 

 the one along base of dorsal, but not on the fin, of 21 or 22 blotches, 

 the other on lower part of sides, of about 25; a series of fainter 

 l)lotches along base of anal ; in other specimens the lower row becomes 

 obscure, the upper more distinct, and the series above anal disappears; 

 a black bar downward from eye, a whitish band behind it; opercles 

 dusky. Ochotsk Sea; our specimens from Shana Bay, Iturup Island, 

 Kuril Group, not seen elsewhere in Japan. 





Fig. 16.— Phuus i-icxus. 



As already shown by Steindachner, this is a typical Pholis, Kner 

 having been in error in ascribing to it an isolated and channeled first 

 anal spine. The ventral spines are bound down by the integument 

 more closely than usual, but they are in other respects not peculiar. 

 Each is accompanied by 2 short rays concealed in the membrane, and 

 difiicult to detect. The latter are stiff and pungent and seem not to 

 be articulated. The ventrals of P. ornatus show the same structure. 

 Kner gives the anal formula as II, 40. This must be a misprint for 

 II, 49, as the artist figures 51 rays in the fin, not differentiating the 

 2 anterior ones. 



{pictus^ painted.) 



19. PHOLIS DOLICHOGASTER (Pallas). 



Blennius doUchogaster Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat., Ill, 1811, p. 175; Kamchatka. 



(Type in Mus. Berlin.) 

 Gtmellus doUchogaster Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XI, 1836, p. 



436.— Brevoort, Exped. Japan, 1856, p. 270, pi. vii, fig. 2; Hakodate. 

 Centronotus doUchogaster GvsTHEK., Cat., 1861, p. 288. — Steindachner, Sitzb. Ak. 



Wis. Wien, 1870, p. 22; Decastris Bay. 

 Murxnoides doUchogaster Jordan and Gilbert, Synopsis, 1883, p. 768. 



