114. BLENNIID^ DELOLEPIS. 779 



length of head; ventrals moderate, 2'g iu licad. Head 9; depth 15. 

 D. LXXV; A. 50; Y. I, 3. L. l'2 inches. Cape Cod to Greenland. 



(lilvnnius serpentiniis Storer, Proc. Boat. Soc. Nat. Hist, iii, '-iO, 1648; Gill, Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila. 1884, 209.) 



llOti. Ij. laaDBpeSa'ia^forBiBBS (Walb.) J. &. G. 



Yellowish, with numerous brown spots of different sizes ; caudal 

 banded. No teeth on vomer or palatines; maxillary reaching front of 

 eye. Caudal free, acuminate; first three or four rays of dorsal short 

 and almost free; pectoral convex, shorter than head; vent well for- 

 ward. Head 9. B. LXXII; A. 50; V. I, 3. {Collett) Greenland to 

 Xorway and Si)itzbergen. 



(BlenniHS lamjielraformis Walbatim, Artedi, Pise. 1792, 184: Clinus iiebiilosus Nilss. 

 Skand. Faun. 1855, 195: Stichams islandicitu Giinther, iii, '281: Blennias (jracilis Stuwitz. 

 Nye Magaz. f. Naturv. i, 40G, 1838: Cliinis ricbulosus Fries Vet. Akacl. Haudl. 1837, 

 55: Lcptobh'iiiiius (jracUifi Gill, 1. c. 210: LiunpenuH lampetraformis Collett, Norske Nord- 

 liavs Exi). 1880, 71.) 



421.— DEI.OI.EPIS Bean. 



(Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas. 1882: type Delolepis virgatus Bean.) ♦ 



Body anguilliform, moderately compressed posteriorly, covered with 

 small, imbricated, cycloid scales; vent nearly median; a small anal 

 papilla; lateral line continnons, straight, nearly median, composed of 

 open pores, without i)rominent tubes. Head oblong, sub(piadrangular, 

 naked, the muciferous channels well developed, the vertex shallow- 

 concave; snout short, obtuse; nostril single, tubular, close behind pre- 

 maxillary; eyes small, high, separated by an interspace of moderate 

 width, siuTounded by a series of shallow pits; mouth wide, oblique, 

 terminal, the lower jaw projecting beyond the upper; lips fleshy; pre- 

 maxillaries slightly protractile, with 2 rows of small conical teeth; a 

 few larger teeth at the symphysis; vomer and palatines with a few 

 rather large teeth; tongue smooth, adherent; mandible with a few 

 shallow pits, the series continued on the posterior border of preop- 

 ercle; opercles unaraied. Gill-membranes attached to a narrow isth- 

 mus; gill-rakers very short; pseudobranchiaj present. Branchioste- 

 gals G. Pectorals short, placed low, their bases vertical; ventrals 

 none; dorsal beginning above gill-opening, composed entirely of 

 spines; anal with 2 spines and many split rays; dorsal and anal con- 

 tinuous with the caudal, which is rather long and pointed. Intestine 

 short, with a few pyloric cceca. ('J?;^.o?, visible; U-l',^ scale.) 



1193. D. V'irsratus Bean. 

 Brownish yellow; a brown stripe along lateral line; another along 



