111. BLEISTNIID^ STICn^US. 
775 
and palatine teeth present ; 3 lateral lines on each side, the median 
continued to the base of the caudal ; ventral fin half as long as the pec- 
toral, which is much shorter than head; dorsal fin teriuinating just at 
root of caudal. Head 4; depth nearly G. D. XLIX; A. 34; V. 3. 
Greenland. {Giintlier.) 
(Clinus pra’,cisus Kroyer, Natnrli. Tidsskr. i, 25, 1836; Clinun nnhnaculutus Reiuli. 
Vid. Selsk. vii, 114, 1837: Slichceus unimaculaias Giinther, iii, 283; Gill, 1. c. 210.) 
aa. Lower lateral liue wanting. 
11§3. E. SiibUjifwrcattis (Storer) Gill. 
Brownish, with several round paler blotches above at the base of 
the dorsal fin; spaces between these blotches darker, appearing like 
bars; a broad black bar crossing the oiiercle obliquely from below the 
orbit, and two parallel dark bars running backwards from orbit; belly 
yellowish white; dorsal fin "with numerous black dots. Month rather 
large; maxilhiry reaching to below orbit; back somewhat arched; ven- 
tral outline nearly straight; eyes large; lower lateral liue wanting; 
npi^er branch of lateral line about two-thirds length of head. ♦Head 4^; 
depth nearly 5. D. XLIY ; A. 30. Xorth Atlantic, south to Cape Cod. 
{Pholis suhbif urcatus Storer, Eep. Fish. Mass. 1839, 63.) 
417.— STSCII.EUS Eeinhardt. 
(Eeinhardt, Dausk. Vidensk. Natur. og Math. Afhandl. 1837, 109: type Blennius punc- 
iatus Fabricius.) 
Body comparatively short and comiiressed, covered with small scales; 
teeth on jaws, vomer, and palatines. Lateral liue present, single, me- 
dian; iiectorals and ventrals well developed. Dorsal moderately high, 
of spines only, free from the caudal ; gill-openings continued forward 
below, the membranes narrowly united to the isthmus; pyloric cceca 
liresent. ((Tri/dw, to set in rows.) 
11 §4. S. pasEicfatsas (Fabric.) Kroyer. 
Scarlet; dorsal with a series of round black spots, white-edged pos- 
teriorly’ ; head below with 5 brownish cross-bands; a brown streak 
from snout through eye. Snout subcouical. Dorsal spines of mod- 
erate length. Eye half interorbital width. Head 5^ in total length; 
depth 8. D. XL; A. I, 35. {Giinther.) Polar seas, south to Cape Cod 
and Alaska. 
(^Blennius piincta'ius Fabric. Faun. Gron. 153, 1/80: Kroyer, Naturh. Tidsskr. i, 3//, 
1837; Gunther, iii, 283.) 
