280 BLENNIID^. 



18. GUNELLICHTHYS. 



Gunellichtliys, Bleek. Act. Soc. Sc. Imh-Nederl. iii., Celebes, ix. p. 9. 



Body elongate, covered with rudimentary scales ; snout rather 

 obtuse ; lower jaw with a short skinny appendage: Jaws with teeth 

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

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

 pectorals. GUI-openings not continued on to the throat ; branohio- 

 stegals six. 



Coast of Celebes. 



1. Gunellichthys pleurotaBnia. 

 Bleeker, 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.EUS*. 



Gunellua, sp., Ctiv. 8f Vol. 



Lumpenus et Stichseus, Kroyer, Naturhist. Tidskr. i 1837, p. 377. 



Ctenodon et Lumpenus, Nilss. SIcand. Faun iv. p. 190. 



Body elongate, covered with very 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 by spines only. Ventrals jugular, 

 with two or three rays ; caudal distinct. Gill-openings rather wide, 

 the gill-membranes being only slightly united at the throat ; 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 lumpenus, Fabr. Faun. Gronl. p. 151, and Sch-ift. Natnrhist. 



Gesellsch. Copenh. ii. p. 87, cop. by Richards.Faun.Bor. Amcr. Fishes, 



p. 90. 

 Clinus lumpenus, Reinh. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Nature, off 3IatJiem. 



Afhandl. vii. 1838, p. 194. 

 Gunellus fabricii, Ciiv. ^ Val. xi. p. 431. 

 Lumpenus fabricii, Kroyer, Naturhist. Itdskr. i. p. 377 ; Gaimard, 



Voy. en Scand. et Lapon. Zool. Poiss. pi. 14. fig. 1. 



D. 63. A. 41. V. 3. 



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



* 1. Pholis subbifurcatus, Storer, Bep. Massach. p. 63, and Delcay, New York 

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

 Bay. 



