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position upon the fin ; middle and lower part of sides occupied by ver- 

 iniculating brown lines on the ground color, these vermiculations arranged 

 in more or less distinct cross bars, about 20 in number, reaching to or 

 nearly to the midventral line, the posterior ones often continued faintly 

 onto the anal fin; pectoral and caudal fins yellow, unmarked; a brown 

 blotch across snout and tip of mandible, followed by a narrow yellow- 

 ish bar descending to front of eye; interorbital space crossed by a 

 broad brown bar with blackish margins, which become much narrower 

 below and traverse the eye and the cheek; behind this a broader yel- 

 low bar, margined behind with a narrow brown line. In life the colora- 

 tion is extremely brilliant, the pale markings being bright orange or 

 scarlet. Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean, from Greenland to the Kurils; 

 locally abundant ; numerous fine large specimens taken from the stomachs 

 of cormorants on St. Paul Island, Pribilof Group; others dredged in 

 shallow waters. Our specimens from St. Paul, Bristol Bay, and Upernavik, 

 Greenland. Three large specimens from St. Paul Island, the type locality 

 of P. maxillaris, have been compared with a number of individuals of P. 

 fasciatus from Upernavik, Greenland. We can appreciate no differences 

 between the two. The size of the mouth and the length of the head are 

 the same in specimens of equal length, and no difference exists in the 

 development of the ventrals. The agreement seems to be perfect in the fin 

 rays, relative proportion and coloration. Pallas's short account of l>lrn- 

 nim tcenia contains nothing distinctive except the number of fin rays and 

 the statement that the body is banded. As both of these items agree with 

 the present species, we may safely follow Bean & Bean in making the iden- 

 tification. In a specimen from St. Paul, 29 cm. long, the length of the 

 maxillary is contained 2$ times in distance from tip of snout to origin of 

 dorsal: the mandible equals the length of the pectoral. In a younger 

 example, 15 cm. long, from Bristol Bay, the maxillary is contained 3 

 in predorsal length ; the mandible approximately equals length of pecto- 

 ral, (fasciatus, banded.) 



Centronotus fasciatus, BLOCH & SCHNEIDER, Syat. Ichtli., 165, pi. 37. fig. 1, 1801, Tranquebar; 



an error? GUNTHER, Cat., in, 287, 1861. 

 Gunnellus groenlandicus, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xi, 442, 1836, 



Greenland, after BLOCK & SCHNEIDER; REINHARDT, Dansk. Vidensk. Selsk. Nat. og 



Mathem. Afh., vn, 122, 1838. 

 Gunnellus murcenoides, VALENCIENNES, in CUVIER, Kegne Animal, Poiss., pi. 78, fig. 2, 916 ; 



after BLOCK & SCHNEIDER. 



Blennius tcenia,* PALLAS, Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat., m, 1811, 178, Kuril Islands. 

 Murcenoides maxillaris, BEAN, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1881, 147, St. Paul Island, Alaska 



(Type, No. 23999. ColL Henry W. Elliott) ; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 768, 1883. 

 Gunnellus fasciatus, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xi, 441, 1836. 

 Murcenoides fasciatus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 767, 1883. 

 Murcenoidet tcenia, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 766, 1883. 

 Pholis fasciatus, GILBERT, Kept. TJ. S. Fish Comru. 1893, 449 ; JORDAN & GILBERT, Kept. Fur 



Seal Invest., 1898. 



* Pholis tcenia is thus described: Body banded; teeth obtuse, subdistinct; head sub- 

 triangular, compressed; body ensiform, covered with minute embedded scales; vent 

 median. Dorsal fin extending from near the head to the tail, the spines subequal; caudal 

 subdistinct ; pectorals small ; ventrals represented by 2 recurved spines. Body banded. 

 D.LXXXVII; A. 47, Kuril Islands. (Pallas.) 



