19. STiCH^us. 283 



typical Blennioids : the bones are less ossified, and rather thin ; the 

 skiill is slightly compressed, and somewhat elongate ; crown of the 

 head smooth, flat, without crest ; intcrorbital space very narrow ; the 

 infraorbital ring is either absent or lost in our skeleton ; the bottom 

 of the tympanic groove is osseous, but thin. Posterior limb of the 

 prseoperculum very short ; operculum elongate, triangidar. Ulna and 

 radius broad, much larger than the carpal bones. There are twenty- 

 eight abdominal and fifty- one caudal vertebrae, the latter portion 

 being t\vice as long as the abdominal ; the vertebra) are slightly com- 

 pressed, rather longer than high ; processes and ribs very feeble. 



7. Stichseus punctatus. 



Blennius punctatus, Fabr. Faun. Gronl. p. 153, and Naturhist. Selsk. 



Shift, ii. part 2. pi. 10. fig. 3. 

 Clinus punctatus, Richm-ds. Faun. Bor. A^ner. Fishes, p. 88. 

 Gunellus punctatus, Cuv. Sf Val. xi. p. 428. 

 Stichffius punctatus, Kroyer, Naturhist. Tidskr. i. p. 377 ; Gaimard, 



Voy. en Scand. et Lapon. Zool. Poiss. pi. 20. fig. 2. 



B. 6. D. 49. A. ^. V. 3. 



The height of the body is contained eight times in the total length, 

 the length of the head five times and one-foui'th. Snout subconical, 

 with the cleft of the mouth horizontal ; the width of the intcrorbital 

 space is one-half the diameter of the eye, which is very projecting. 

 Vomerine and palatine teeth. The ventral fin is half as long as the 

 pectoral, which nearly equals the length of the head. Dorsal spines 

 of moderate length, stiff; caudal distinct. Dorsal with a series of 

 five round black, posteriorly white-edged spots ; the lower part of 

 the head with five brown cross-bands ; a brown streak from the 

 snout, ranning through the eye. 



Coasts of Greenland and Newfoundland. 

 a. Fine specimen. Greenland. 



8. Stichaeus unimacnlatus. 



Clinus unimacnlatus, Heinh. Danske Vidensk. Sekk. Naturv. og 3Ia- 



them. Afliandl. 1835, pp. 9-11. 

 Chirus prpecisus, Kroyer, Naturhist. Tidskr. 1837, p. 25. 

 Stichaeus unimacnlatus, Reinh. I. c. 1837, p. 109 ; Kroyer, I. c. pp. 375, 



377 ; Gaimard, Voy. en Scand. et Lapon. Zool. Poiss. pi. 20. fig. 1. 



D, 49. A. 34. V. 3. 



The height of the body is contained six times and a half in the total 

 length, the length of the head four times and two-thirds. Snout 

 subcorneal, with the cleft of the mouth slightly oblique ; vomerine 

 and palatine teeth. Three lateral lines on each side. The ventral 

 is half as long as the pectoral, which is much shorter than the head. 

 The dorsal fin terminates just at the root of the caudal. An ovate 

 black, white-edged spot between the sixth and tenth dorsal spines. 



Coast of Greenland. 



ff. Fine specimen. Greenland. 



