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a single row on jaws; vomer with teeth; iuterorbital a narrow, sharp 

 ridge; snout about equal to length of eye; gill opening short, limited to 

 the part below angle of opercle, above adnate to shoulder girdle. Origin 

 of dorsal above upper end of gill opening, much nearer occiput than tip 

 of snout; anal spine small, not channeled as in Apodichthys flavidus', origin 

 of anal nearer base of caudal than tip of snout by a distance equal to 

 twice length of head ; pectorals and ventrals obsolete ; caudal rather long, 

 confluent with dorsal and anal. Color in spirits, light brown, slightly 

 lighter under head and on belly; no markings. The type is a specimen 

 4 inches in length, collected by the Albatross at Santa Rosa Island, off 

 Santa Barbara, January 6, 1889. (Type, No. 47579. Coll. Albatross.) 



Ulvicola sanctce-rosce, GILBERT & STARRS, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1896, 455, pi. 55, fig. 2, 

 Santa Rosa Island, California. 



905. PHOLIS (Gronow) Scopoli. 

 (GUNNELS. ) 



Pholis, GRONOW, Zoophylaceum, 78, 1765 (not binomial). 

 Pholis, SCOPOLI, Introd. Hist. Nat., 456, 1777 (gunnellus). 

 Murcenoides, LACEPEDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., n, 324, 1800 (sujef). 

 Centronotus, BLOCH & SCHNEIDER, Syst. Ichth., 165, 1801 (fasciatus). 

 Dactyleptus, Rafinesque Anal, de la Nature 1815, 82 ; substitute for Murcenoides. 

 Ventronotux, CUVIER, Regne Animal, Ed. 2, n, 239, 1829 (gunnellus). 

 Ophisomus,* SWAINSON, Nat. Hist, Class'n. Anim., II, 277, 1839 (gunnellus). 

 TTrocentrus, KNER, Sitzber. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, LVIII, 1868, 51 (pictus). 

 Rhodymenichlhys, JORDAN & EVERMANN, Check-List Fishes, 474, 1896 (ruberrimus = doli- 

 chogaster) . 



Body long and low, considerably compressed, somewhat band-shaped, 

 the tail slowly tapering ; head small, compressed, naked ; t mouth rather 

 small, oblique; jaws with rather small teeth in narrrow bands or single 

 series; vomer and palatines usually toothless; gill membranes broadly 

 united, free from the isthmus; scales very small, smooth; no lateral line. 

 Dorsal fin long and low, beginning near the head, composed entirely of 

 stiff, sharp, subequal spines; anal similar in form, of 2 spines and many 



* Substitute for Gunnellus, the latter being a barbarous word derived from " gunwale." 

 "Nomina generica quae ex Grseca vel Latina lingua radicemnon habent, regicieiidasunt." 

 This rule has never been generally adopted. 



tin Pholi* nebulosua, a Japanese species, the head is scaly. This species is the type of 

 a distinct genus ; which may be called 



ENEDRIAS, Jordan & Gilbert, new genus. 



Enedrias, JORDAN & GILBERT, new genus (nebulosus). 



This genus differs from Pholis in the scaly head. (e^eSpa, lurking place.) 



Enedrias nebulosa (SCHLEGEL). 



Head 74 to 8: depth 8J to 9*. D. LXXX; A. II, 39. Dorsal and anal somewhat con- 

 nected to caudal: pectoral 2 to 2| in head. Head small. Body everywhere freckled 

 with dark blotches; 12 dark triangular blotches along base of dorsal; a row of dusky 

 blotches on middle of side posteriorly; 10 or 12 dark blotches on base of anal: caudal dusky, 

 edged with pale, 2 pale cross streaks on top of head ; pectoral pale. Northern Japan to 

 Okhotsk Sea, Gulf ot Strietok; our specimens from Hakodate, (nebulosut, clouded.) 



Gunncllus nebulosus, SCHLEGEL. Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 138, 1850, Bay of Magi, Japan. 



Gentronotufi nebulosus, STEINDACHNER, Ichth. Beitr., ix, 24, 1880. 



Enedria* nebulosus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Rept. Fur Seal Invest., 1898 with plate. 



