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rays, the fin little emarginate; dorsal and anal not joined to the caudal. 

 Greenish, with 4 or 5 irregular dark spots or shades along the back; 

 dorsal with a large black spot in front; anal brown-edged. South Caro- 

 lina. Only the original type in the museum at Paris known; from this 

 the present description was taken. No later collector has recognized 

 the species and it may not be American. 



Pholis carolinut, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss, xi, 276, 1836, Carolina. (Coll. 



M. Bosc.) 

 Blennius carolinus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 760, 1883. 



2725. BLENNIUS FUCORUM, Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



Head 5 in total length. D. XI, 17 ; A. 18. Orbitial cirri nearly as long 

 as head, bifid at tip, and fringed at the base. Dorsal fin slightly einar- 

 giiiate, free from the caudal, the spines rather stiff. Head very short and 

 steep, its profile nearly vertical; 24 teeth in each jaw; each jaw with 

 very strong canines ; gill membranes free from the isthmus posteriorly. 

 Olive green, becoming darker above, with numerous brown spots on the 

 cheeks and sides of the body; below reddish ; dorsal with a large black 

 spot in front, behind which are smaller spots; spinous dorsal edged 

 with paler. (Cuvier & Valenciennes.) Open ocean in floating Fucus; the 

 type from near the Azores ; recorded by De Kay from the open sea, off 

 New York, in floating seaweed, (fucorum, of the seaweed, Fucus.) 



Blennius fucorum, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xi, 263, 1836, 240 miles south 

 of the Azores (Coll. Claude Gay) ; GUNTHER, Cat., m, 217, 1861 ; DE KAY, N, Y. Fauna: 

 Fishes, 149, pi. 22, fig, 66, 1842; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 710, 1883. 



Blennius oceanieus,* CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xi, 265, 1836, open sea, 29 

 N., 50 W.; on a drawing by CLAUDE GAY. 



2726. BLENNIUS STEARNSI* Jordan & Gilbert. 



Head 3f (4f in total) ; depth 4f (5) ; eye 4J; snout 4. D. XI, 18; A. II, 

 21. Body much elongate, compressed, tapering regularly behind ; anterior 

 profile moderately decurved ; snout short and blunt ; mouth large, oblique, 

 the jaws even; maxillary reaching slightly beyond middle of orbit, 2 

 times in head; teeth in the front of the jaws only, occupying on each side 

 a space equal to | length of maxillary; teeth ff, the lateral one on each 

 side much enlarged and canine-like, rather short but strongly curved; 

 canine in upper jaw equaling about diameter of pupil; interorbital 

 space very narrow, not as wide as pupil ; upper posterior rim of orbit with 

 a long slender filament, forked at base, its length equaling distance from 

 tip of snout to posterior rim of orbit; no filaments at the nape; gill mem- 

 branes somewhat united to the isthmus in front, but forming a broad fold 

 across it posteriorly, the gill openings of the two sides therefore continu- 

 ous below. Dorsals rather high ; no notch between the spines and soft 

 portion, the membrane of last ray not reaching base of caudal; spines of 



* Very near Blennius fucorum, the profile more oblique, the cirri shorter, the spinous 

 dorsal lower, the caudal more truncate ; anal shorter. Color brown with brown spots on 

 body and fins ; sides clear green ; belly silvery. Length 2 inches. (Cuvier & Valenciennes.) 



