472 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxv. 



PJiolifi dolichogaster JoRVAS and Gilbert, Hept. Fur Seal Invest., 1898, }>. 383 — 

 Jordan and Evermanx, Fish. N. and M. Amer., Ill, p. 2-416; Robben, Ber- 

 ing, and Medni islands, and Kigiktowik Bay. 



GunneUus ruberrimns Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XIV, 1839, 

 p. 440; Kuril Islands; after notes of Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. , III, 1811, 

 p. 178. 



Murcenoides ruberrinun^ Bean in Nelson, Rept. Coll. Alaska, 1887, p. 305, pi. 

 XIV, fig. 1. 



Rhodi/menicJithys rnherrimiis Jordan and Evermann, Check-List Fishes, 1896, 

 p. 474. 



Fholls riiherrimm Bean and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1896, p. 248; Bering 

 and Medni islands.— Bean and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1897, p. 389; 

 Mororan. 



Head 9| in length; depth 8; D. XCII; A. II, 44; P. 14; eye 5 in 

 head; maxillaiy 2f ; pectoral 2^; caudal 2; ventral spines If in eye. 

 Body elongate, much compressed; head small, its upper profile con- 

 vex; mouth moderate, very oblique, the maxillary reaching to below 

 middle of eye; teeth rather large and l)lunt, arranged in a single row, 

 the anterior one not enlarged; interorbital space narrow, without a 

 sharp ridge, its width less than eye; snout equal in length to eye; 

 distance from tip of snout to occiput 1| in head; head entirely naked; 

 body covered with small, cycloid, inconspicuous scales; origin of dor- 

 sal over upper end of gill-slit, its distance from nape equal to distance 

 from nape to front of eye, the spines toward the anterior end of tin the 

 highest; origin of anal a little nearer tip of caudal than snout; dorsal 

 and anal confluent with caudal, the anal more broadly connected than 

 dorsal; pectoral small, rounded ])ehind; ventral spines inserted directl}^ 

 under base of pectorals, their length little greater than their distance 

 apart; caudal short and broad, well rounded in outline. 



Bering Sea; recorded from the Kuriles and from Robben, Medni, and 

 Bering* islands, and from Kigiktowik Ba}- not taken b}^ us in Japan. 

 The specimen abo\e described was taken at Robben Island by Capt. 

 J. G. Blair, then in command of the guard-ship Leon. It is 9 inches 

 long and is uniform red in color, with a few pale dots. Another 

 specimen, 18 cm. long, taken by Mr. Gerald E. H. Barrett-Hamilton 

 at Bering Island, shows the following characters: The color is cherry 

 red on the body and fins, lighter on belly, lower half of cheek and under 

 side of head: lips blackish anteriorl3% a narrow black streak running 

 from them along snout to eye and from eye across cheek and opercles 

 toward upper edge of pectoral base; this line separates the deep red 

 upper part of the head from the lighter area below; sides of body with 

 a number of minute scattered black spots; along middle of side is a 

 distant series of light spots as large as the pupil, the margin of each 

 with 2 to 4 black specks like those scattered over sides. The dorsal 

 and anal more widely joined to the caudal than in other species, the 

 fiuB being higher posteriorly and without perceptible notch. The 



