474 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.xxv. 



Gannellus murienoides Valenciennes in Cuvier, Regne Animal, Poiss., p. 91(3; 

 pi. Lxxviii, fig. 2; after Bloch and Schneider. 



Blennivs tasnia FaIuL AS, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., Ill, 1811, p. 178; Kuril Inlands. 



Fholis tsenia BsA-ff and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1897, p. 308; Petmpaulaky. 



Muramoides maxillarls Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1881, p. 147; St. Paul Island, 

 Alaska. (Type, No. 23999. Coll. Henry W. Elliott. )— Jordan and Gil- 

 bert, Synopsis, 1883, p. 768. 



Gunnellus fasciatus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XI, 1836, p. 441. 



Munvnoides fascialus Jordan and Gilbert, Synopsis, 1883, p. 767. 



Murxnoides Uenia Jordan and Gilbert, Synopsis, 1883, p. 766. 



Pholis fmciatus Gilbert, Rept. Fish Comm., 1893, p. 449. — Jordan and Gilbert, 

 Rept. Fur Seal Invest., 1898, p. 480. 



Head 8 to 9i; depth 7 to 9; D. LXXXIV to LXXXIX; A. II, 

 42 to 44; V. 1, 1. 



Head scaleless; mouth decidedly oblique, the tip of lower jaw on a 

 level with middle of eye; teeth short, blunt, in narrow bands on jaws; 

 3 or 4 teeth on the vomer; eye equal to snout, a little more than inter- 

 orbital width; ventral spine f eye, i length of mandible; caudal ^ 

 head; pectoral 2^ in head; vertical tins slight!}" joined at base. 



Ground color, yellowish-g-ray in life, the sides of a brilliant scarlet; 

 base of dorsal occupied by 10 or 11 oblong blotches of dark brown, 

 which extend to the tips of the tins; these blotches each divided on the 

 tin by a median spot of the ground-color, the areas of the ground- 

 color alternating with these blotches tinely speckled with ])rown, a 

 large spot of brown usually occupying a median position upon the tin; 

 middle and lower part of side occupied by vermiculating brown lines 

 on the ground-color, these vermiculations arranged in more or less 

 distinct cross-bars, about 20 in number, reaching to or nearly to the 

 midventral line, the posterior ones often continue J. on to the anal tin; 

 pectoral and caudal tins yellow, unmarked; a brown Ijlotch across 

 snout and tip of mandible, followed by a narrow yellowish bar 

 descending to front of eye; interorbital space crossed by a broad brown 

 bar with blackish margins, which become much narrower below and 

 traverse the eye and the cheek; behind this a broader yellow bar mar- 

 gined behind with a narrow brown line. 



In life, the coloration is extremely brilliant, the pale markings being 

 bright orange or scarlet. 



Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean, from Greenland to the Kurds, locally 

 abundant; numerous fine, large specimens taken from the stomachs of 

 cormorants on St. Paul Island, Pribilof group; others dredged in 

 shallow waters. Two specimens, each a])out 90 mm. long, were taken 

 at Aomori. We have still others from Bristol Bay and Upernavik, 

 Greenland. In the museum at Hakodate is a specimen of some other 

 species of FJtolis, from Nemuro, with 105 dorsal spines and 25 dark 

 crossbands. 



{fasciatus, banded.) 



