CRYPTACANTHODID^. — LXXXIV. 159 



210. EUMESOGRAMMUS Gill. (eS, well; fi^'aos, middle; 

 ypanfiri, line.) 



441. E. subbifurcatus (Storer). Brownish with pale blotches ; 

 black bars on head ; D. with black dots ; lateral line with upper 

 branch only. Head 4^; depth 5. D. XLIV. A. 30. Cape Cod; 



K. rare. (Lat., sub, almost ; bis, two ; furcatus, forked.) 



211, STICH^US Reinhardt. (trrtxao), to set in rows.) 



442. S. punctatus (Fabricius). Scarlet ; D. with black spots. 

 Head A\ ; depth about t>|. 1). XL. A. I, 35. Cape Cod, N. 



212. LEPTOBLENNIUS Gill. (Xe,7To?, slender; Blennius.) 



443. L. serpentinus (Storer). Head small; olive, with pale 

 shades; D. with oblique white bands. Head 9; depth 15. D. 

 LXXV. A. 50. V. I, 3. L. 12. Cape Cod, N. 



Family LXXXIV. CRYPTACANTHODID^. (The 

 Wrymouths.) 



Fishes allied to the Blenniidce, but with the head cuboid, with 

 vertical cheeks, conspicuous muciferous channels in jaws and pre- 

 opercle ; top of head flat; snout short; lower jaw very heavy, cleft 

 of mouth vertical; teeth conical, on jaws, vomer, and palatines; 

 gill membranes joined to the narrow isthmus ; P. short ; V. want- 

 ing ; D. very long, of spines only, enveloped in thick skin ; D., A., 

 and C. joined. Body naked or scaly. Vertebrae many. Genera, 2 ; 

 species 2. Arctic. 

 a. Body scaleless CRYPTACANTironES, 213. 



213. CRYPTACANTHODES Storer. (kpvtttSs, hidden; 

 aKavduStji, spined.) 



444. C. maculatus Storer. Wry-mouth. Ghost-fish. Brown, 

 with dark spots, rarely immaculate. Head 6^; depth 13. D. 

 LXXIII. A. 50. L. 24. Cape Cod, N. 



Family LXXXV. ANARRHICHADID^. (The Wolf- 

 fishes.) 

 Fishes similar to the Blennies in most respects, but with the 

 vomer very thick and solid, with two series of coarse molar teeth ; 

 palatines with similar teeth ; jaws with canines in front, the pos- 

 terior teeth below molar. Scales rudimentary ; no lateral line ; 

 gill membranes joined to isthmus. D. high, of flexible spines only. 

 V. wanting. Air-bladder present. Vertebrfe numerous. Large 

 fishes of northern seas. Two genera and 5 or 6 species; one of 

 them commonly, others rarely, taken ofF our coast. 

 a. Tail not very long, with a caudal fin, distinct from D. and A. 



^NAltKHICHAS, 214. 



