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and cherry red ; traces of about 20 darker bars along sides ; a dark bar 

 downward from eye; fins reddish; a V-shaped mark from eye to occiput, 

 grayish, bordered by jet-black; the common form with about 14 red spots 

 along base of dorsal, each with a curved black bar in front and behind, 

 partly encircling it; others with about as many broad /\ -shaped darker 

 blotches, which extend on the fin, the first one or two blotches often shaped 

 as in the former case; anal white, unmarked. Length 12 inches. San 

 Francisco to Bering Sea; very common northward, its range extending 

 to Kamchatka;* very common at Unalaska; always in shallow water. 

 (ornatus, ornamented.) 



Gunncllus ornatus, GIRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1854, 149; GIRARD, Pac. R. R. Surv., 



x, Fishes, 116, pi. 25b, figs. 6 and 7, 1858 (Type, No. 490, Presidio, California, Coll. 



Lieut. Trowbridge; No. 491, Shoalwater Bay, "Washington, Coll. Dr. J. G. Cooper; 



No. 492, Fort Steilacoom, Washington, Coll. Dr. Geo. Suckley). 

 Centronotus Icetus, COPE, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. Phila. 1873, 27, Sitka or Unalaska (Coll. 



George Davidson) ; A. n, 33. 



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

 Pholit ornatus, GILBERT, Kept. U. S. Fish Comm. 1893, 450. 



906. GUNNELLOPS, Bleeker. 

 Gunnellops, BLEEKER, Versl. Ak. Arast., 2, vm,1874, 368 (roseus). 



This genus is apparently distinguished from Pholis by the tapering tail, 

 around which the vertical fins are confluent; palatine teeth present. 

 (Gunnellus, Gunnel, an old name of Pkolis gunnellm; GOI/>, appearance.) 



2775. GUMfELLOPS ROSEUS (Pallas). 



D. ca. C; A. ca. 90; P. 9; V. I. Head obtuse, the lower jaw project- 

 ing; eyes large; body very long, compressed, tapering into a slender tail; 

 pectorals small, ovate, hyaline ; 2 spines in place of veiitrals ; dorsal extend- 

 ing from the nape to the end of the tail; anal joined to caudal. Color 

 intensely red. Kuril Islands. (Pallas.) Not seen by any recent collector. 

 (roseus, rosy.) 



Blennius roseus, PALLAS, Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat., in, 177, 1811, Kuril Islands. 



Centronotus roseus, GiJNTHER, Cat., in, 290, 1861. 



Gunnellops roseus, JORDAN & EVERMANN, Check-List Fishes N. and M. A., 474, 1896. 



907. ASTERNOPTERYX, Riippell. 



Asternopteryx (RiJPPELL MS.) GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., in, 288, 1861, name only ; 

 JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 769, 1883 (gunelliformis) . 



This genus is closely allied to Pholis, differing chiefly in the entire absence 

 of ventral fins. From Pholidapus it is distinguished by the shorter pecto- 

 rals and by the more broadly united gill membranes. Greenland. A sin- 

 gle species known, (a-, without; <5repvov, breast; itrepvt,, fin.) 



2776. ASTERNOPTEBYX GUNELLIFORMIS, Riippell. 



Head 9; depth 8|. D. LXXXVII (LXXXI, according to Guhther); A. 

 II, 40. Head and body strongly compressed; head bluntish, snout short, 



* We have specimens collected at Tareinsky Bay by Mr. Barrett-Hamilton. 



