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cirri nearly as long as liead, bifid above, and with fringes at the base. 

 Dorsal fin slightly emarginate, free from the caudal, the spines rather 

 stiff. Head vei-y short and deep, its i)rofile 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 oft' the coast of Xew 

 York. 



(Cuvier & Valenciennes, xi, 263; Giiutlier, iii, 217; Dekay, New York Fauna, Fish. 

 149, pi. 22, fig. 06.) 



aa. Orbital cirri none. (F/JoZts* Fleming.) , 



1160. B. caroliBiMS (C. & V.) J. & G. 



Greenish, with 4 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 Blennius pholis, more 

 compressed, the head longer; maxillary extending to opposite middle 

 of eye; teeth yf , 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 emarginate; 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 caroUnus Cuv. Sc Val. xi, 276.) 



40S.— NEOCLIIVUS Girard. 



(Girard, U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv. Fish, x, 114, 1858: type NeocUnus hianchardi Girard.) 



Body compressed, rather elongate, covered with minute cycloid scales; 

 lateral line present, incomplete, high anteriorly; head naked, tbe cheeks 

 tumid; upper jaw i^rotractile ; 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 lonji', scarcely emarginate, 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: ventrals moderate, I, 3; cau- 

 dal fin distinct; pectorals rather broad, rounded; no air-bladder; no 

 pyloric cceca. Pacific Ocean, (v^o?, new; zAc'vo?, Clinus.) 



* Fleming, Brit. Auim. 207: type Blennius j)/io?(s L. (OoXi?, ancient name of some 

 fish which was believed to shelter itself in a cloud of mucous which it produced.) 



