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Body much elongated; lateral line obsolete; teeth on jaws, vomer, and 

 palatines; pectoral fins with the upper rays shortened; caudal fin sub- 

 truncate. Arctic seas. This genus is close to Lumpenus, differing mainly 

 in the form of the pectoral. (A.eitr6$, slender; Clinus.} 



2788. LEPTOCLINUS MACULATUS (Fries). 



(LANGBARN.) 



Head 5 ; depth 8. D. LX (LVIII to LX) ; A. 36 (35 to 38). Eye large, 3 

 in head; snout short and blunt, 4 in head, maxillary reaching past middle 

 of eye, 2 in head. Teeth in jaws, vomer, and palatines ; jaws each having 

 2 strong canines in front. Scales small, cycloid. First 3 or 4 dorsal spines 

 short and free; longest dorsal spines as long as eye; caudal fin free from 

 dorsal and anal; ventrals 3 in head; pectorals rather large, 1 in head. 

 Color yellowish, irregularly marked with dark spots, a series of about 6 

 of these spots extending along sides close to base of dorsal fin ; a series of 

 smaller spots extending along center of sides from upper base of pectoral 

 to caudal ; dorsal irregularly covered with dark spots ; caudal with 4 dark 

 cross bands; anal, ventral, and pectorals plain yellowish. Bering Sea to 

 Spitzbergen, south to Aleutian Islands and the coasts of Sweden and Nor- 

 way. This description is taken from a specimen, 5 inches long, from 

 Alaska, near Unimak Pass (Albatross Station 3309). A few young individ- 

 uals of this species, hitherto known only from the North Atlantic, were 

 taken in Unimak Pass and in Bristol Bay, in 29| to 70 fathoms. Three 

 small specimens were also taken off Robben Reef, near the Kamchatka 

 coast, in 28 fathoms, and one off Karluk, Kadiak Island. Having no Atlantic 

 specimens of this species, we are unable to satisfy ourselves of the iden- 

 tity of the two, but no difference is evident from descriptions. The lat- 

 eral line is much more distinct than in our specimens of Lumpenus medius, 

 in which it can be made out with difficulty on scattered scales along mid- 

 dle of sides. (Eu.) (maculatus, spotted.) 



Clinus maculatus, FRIES, Kgl. Vet. Ak. Handl. 49, 1837, Bohuslan, Sweden. 

 Lumpenus aculeatus, REINHARDT, Kong. Dansk. Vid. Selsk., vi, 1837, 190, no description. 

 Clinus aculeatus, KEINHARDT, Dansk. Vidensk. Selsk. Natur. Af h., vir, 1838, 114, 122, 194, 



Spitzbergen. 



Otenodon maculatus, NILSSON, Skand. Fauna, IV, 190, 1853. 

 Stichceus maculatus, GUNTHER, Cat., HI, 281, 1861. 

 Lumpenus aculeatus, KROYER, Naturhist. Tidsskr., I, 377, 1862. 



Stichceus aculeatus, GUNTHER, Cat., in, 282, 1861 ; COLLETT, Norske Nord-Havs Exp.,67, 1880. 

 Lumpenus maculatus, JORDAN & GILBERT. Synopsis, 777, 1883 ; Lilljeborg, Sveriges Och 



Gorges Fish., 500,1891. 

 Leptoclinus maculatus, GILBERT, Kept. TJ. S. Fish Comm. 1893, 450. 



917. POROCLINUS, Bean. 



Poroclinus, BEAN, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1890, 40 (rothrocki). 



Body elongate, moderately compressed, covered with small scales ; lat- 

 eral line obsolete. Head moderately long; snout short ; eyes large ; inter- 

 orbital space narrow. Mouth small, lower jaw slightly included; teeth 

 on vomer and palate; narrow bands of teeth in jaws, the outer series 



