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cirri nearly as long as head, bifid above, and with fringes at the base. 
Dorsal fin slightly einarginate, free from the caudal, the spines rather 
stiff. Ilead very short and deep, its profile nearly vertical; both jaws 
with very strong canines. Gill-membranes free from isthmus poste- 
riorly. Head 5 in total length. D. XI, 17 ; A. 18. Open ocean, from 
near the Azores; said to have been once taken off the coast of Xew 
York. 
(Cuvier & Valencieuues, xi, 2G3; Gunther, iii, 217; Dekay, New York Fauna, Fish. 
149, 22, tig. G6.) 
aa. Orbital cirri uoue. (F/to/is* Fleming.) 
1160. B. ciarolisiias (C. & V.) J. & G. 
Greenish, with 1 or 5 irregular dark spots or shades along the back; 
dorsal with a large black spot in front; anal brown-edged. Body 
rather long and slender, more elongate than in JBlennius phoUs, more 
compressed, the head longer; maxillary extending to opposite middle 
of eye; teeth -j-f, with strong canines in both jaws. Gill-membranes free 
from isthmus; no trace of tentacles above eye. Dorsal spines slender, 
a little lower than the soft rays, the fin little emargiuate; dorsal and 
anal not joined to the caudal. D. XII, 18; A. 17. South Carolina. 
Only the original type in the museum at Paris known; from this the 
present description was taken. 
{Pholis carolinus Cuv. & Val. xi, 276.) 
406.— IVEOCLIIVUS Girard. 
(Girard, U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv. Fish, x, 114, 1853; type NeocUnus hlancliardi Girard.) 
Bod}' compressed, rather elongate, covered with minute cycloid scales; 
lateral line present, iucomiilete, high anteriorly; head naked, the cheeks 
tumid; upper jaw iirotractile ; maxillary greatly iiroduced backward, 
more than two-thirds length of head, reaching far beyond the eye; 
both jaws, vomer, and palatines with stout, unequal, conical teeth in 
a single series, besides which, in the front of the jaws, are smaller 
teeth; nasal and supraocular region with fringed tentacles; gill-mem- 
branes broadly united, free from the isthmus; gill-rakers weak. Dor- 
sal fin long, scarcely emargiuate, its anterior two-thirds composed of 
slender, flexible spines, which are similar to the soft rays, all of which 
are simple; anal long, its rays all simple; veutrals moderate, I, 3; cau- 
dal fin distinct; pectorals rather broad, rounded; no air-bladder; no 
pyloric coeca. Pacific Ocean, new; x/Uvu?, Cliuus.) 
* Flemiug, Brit. Auim. 207: type Blennius plioJis L. (Oo/lz?, ancient name of some 
fish which was believed to shelter itself in a cloud of mucous which it produced.) 
