282 BLENNllD^. 



one-fourteenth or one-sixteenth of the total length. Ventral rays 

 indistinct. Marbled with brown. 

 Coasts of Scandinavia and Iceland. 



Faber (Fische Islands, p. 79) considers this species as identical 

 with Blennms Imnpenus of Fabricius, but he does not appear to have 

 known it from autopsy. 



5. StichaBus aculeatus. 



Clinus aculeatus, Reinh. Danske Vidensk, Selsk. Naturv. og Mathem. 



Afhandl. vii. 1838, pp. 114, 122, 194 

 J^unipenus aculeatus, Kroyer, Naturhist. Tidskr. i. p. 377 ; Gaimard, 

 Voy. en Scand. et Lapon. Zool. Poiss. pi. 14. fig. 2. 



B. 6. D. 72. A. 46. V. 1/2, 



The upper jaw overlapping the lower ; vomerine and palatine teeth, 

 Ventrals slender, one-half the length of the head ; pectorals as long 

 as, or not much shorter than, the head ; caudal free from dorsal and 

 anal, rounded. A series of darker spots along the base of the dorsal 

 fin. 



Coast of Greenland. 



a, b. Adult. Greenland. 



6. Stichseus anguillaris. 



Blennius anguillaris, Pall. Zooyr. Ross. iii. p. 176. 



Gunellus anguillaris, Cuv. ^ Val. xi. p. 434. 



Leptogunellus anguillaris, Ayres in Proc. Calif. Acad. Nat. Sc. 1855, 



p. 26. 

 Lumpenus anguillaris, Girard in U.S. Pacif. R. R. Exp. Fishes, p. 123 



(pi. 25 b. figs. 1-3). 



B. 6. D. 68. A. ^. V. 1/3. CiBc. pylor. 6. Vert. 28/51, 



Vomer smooth ; palatine teeth. The upper jaw overlapping the 

 lower ; snout somewhat longer than the eye. The length of the pec- 

 toral fin is one-tenth of the total ; the ventral one-half the length 

 of the pectoral ; caudal free from dorsal and anal. Body with inter- 

 rupted blackish longitudinal streaks. 



Coast of Kamtschatka ; Aleutian Islands ; Western coasts of North 

 America. 



Pseudobranchiae. The liver is elongate, bUobed, the left lobe being 

 the longest. The stomach is strongly curved, and its pyloric portion 

 provided with six appendages of moderate length, namely, four on 

 one, and two on the other side. The intestinal tract makes a single 

 short curve, and is not quite one-half the length of the fish. 



a-c. Adult and half-grown. New Orcas Islands, Gulf of Georgia. 



Presented by the Lords of the Admiralty. 

 d. Adult : skeleton. New Orcas Islands. Presented by the Lords 



of the Admiralty. 



Skeleton. — The skeleton differs in several points from that of the 



