280 ' liLKXNIIDJE. 



18. GUNELLICHTHYS. 



Gunellichthys, Bleek. Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Nederl. iii., Celebes, ix. p. 9. 



Body elongate, covered with rudimentary scales ; snout rather 

 obtuse ; lower jaw Avith a short skinny appendage. Jaws with teeth 

 of unequal size ; palate smooth. Dorsal fin long, formed by flexible 

 spines; caudal distinct. Ventrals two-rayed, scarcely before the 

 pectorals. Gill- openings not continued on to the throat ; branchio- 

 stegals six. 



Coast of Celebes. 



1. Gunellichthys pleurotsenia. 

 Bleekci; I. c. p. 10. 



B. 6. D. 59. A. 34. V. 2. 



The height of the body is about one-fifteenth of the total length. 

 Eose-coloured, with a brown, white-edged streak from the snout, 

 through the eye, to the middle of the caudal fin. {Bl.) 



Sea of Manado. 



19. STICH.aEUS*. 



Gunellus, sp., Cuv. 8,- Val. 



Lunipenus et Stichreus, Krnyer, Naturhist. Tidskr. i. 1837, p. 377. 



Cteuodon et Lumpenus, Niks. Skand. Faun. iv. p. 190. 



Body elongate, covered with veiy small scales ; lateral line more 

 or less distinct ; sometimes several lateral lines. Snout short, or of 

 moderate extent ; very small teeth in the jaws and, generally, on the 

 palate. Dorsal fin long, formed bj' spines only. Ventrals jugular, 

 with two or tlu'ee rays ; caudal distinct. GiU-openings rather wide, 

 the gill-membranes being only slightly united at the thi'oat ; pseudo- 

 branchiae present ; branchiostegals six ; air-bladder and pyloric ap- 

 pendages absent. 



Seas near the Arctic Circle, southwards to the coasts of Japan and 

 Scandinavia. 



1. Stichaeus lumpenus. 



Blennius limipenus, Fahr. Faun. Gronl. p. 151, and Schrift. Naturhist. 



Gesellsch. Cc^enh. ii. p. 87, cop. by Ricliards.Faxn.Bor. Amer. FisJies, 



p. 90. 

 Cliuus lumpenus, Reinlt. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Nature, og Mathem. 



Afhandl. vii. 1838, p. 194. 

 Gunellus fabricii, Cuv. S,- Val. xi. p. 431. 

 LumpeniLS fabricii, Kroi/er, Naturhist. Tidskr. i. p. 377 ; Gaimard, 



Vol/, en Scand. et Lapon. Zool. Poiss. pi. 14. fig. 1. 



D. 63. A. 41. Y. 3. 



The height of the body is one-fourteenth of the total length. The 



* 1. Pholis subbifiircatus, Storer, Rep. Massach. p. 63, and Bekay, New York 

 Fauna, Fishes, p. 160, appears to belong to this genus. — Massachusetts 



