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that the lateral line runs along the upper fifth of the height of the body 

 and terminates at about the middle of the length. This correctly describes 

 its position in all our specimens, where it originates immediately above 

 the opercle, exhibiting at first rather a strong upward convex curve, then 

 running nearly parallel to the back, separated from base of dorsal fin by i' 

 height of body. It is very distinct throughout its course, and terminates 

 at about the middle of the length. The narrow brown streak bounding 

 the lateral line above, in No1o</rammns rothrocki, is conspicuous in our 

 smallest specimen (86 mm.). Branchiostegal membranes very narrowly 

 joined anteriorly, forming a narrow free fold across the isthmus, from 

 which they are entirely distinct. Narrow bands of teeth in the jaws, and 

 distinctly present on vomer and palatines; the outer series in upper jaw 

 and the inner series in the lower jaw enlarged. D. XLVII or XLVIII; 

 A. I, 32 to 35. The membranes from last dorsal spine join extreme base 

 of upper caudal ray; anal wholly distinct. We have not the material for 

 a comparison of Pacific with Atlantic representatives of this species, and 

 the published descriptions of the latter lack detail, (punctatus, spotted.) 



Blennius punctatus, FABRICIUS, Fauna Gronlandica, 153, 1780. Greenland ; REINHARDT, 



Naturhist. Selsk. Skrift., n, pt. 2, pi. 10, fig. 3. 

 Notogrammus rothrocki, BEAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., IV, 1881, 146, Plover Bay and Cape 



Lisburne, Siberia ; young. (Types, Nos. 27565, 27580, and 27573. Coll. Dr. Bean.) 

 Clinus punctatus, RICHARDSON, Fauna Bor.-Amer., in, 88, 1836. 

 Gunnellut punctatus, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xi, 428, 1836. 

 Stichceus punctatus, KROYER, Naturhist. Tidsskr., i, 377, 1837; GAIMARD, Yoy. en Scancl. et 



Lapon., Zool., Poiss., pi. 20, fig. 2; GUNTHER, Cat., HI, 283, 1861; JORDAN & GILBERT, 



Synopsis, 775, 1883; DRESEL, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1884, 249; GILBERT, Kept. TJ. S. 



Fish Comni. 1893 (1896), 450. 



920. ULVARIA, Jordan & Evermann. 



Vivaria, JORDAN & EVERMANN, Check- List Fishes N. and M. A., 475, 1896 (subUfurcatut) . 

 This genus is very close to Eumesogrammus, from which it differs in the 

 absence of the lowermost or third lateral line, the median line being bifur- 

 cate. ( Ulva, the sea lettuce, in which many Blennioid fishes live.) 



2796. ULVARIA. SUBBIFURCATA (Storer). 



Head 4; depth nearly 5. D. XLIV; A. 30. Mouth rather large; max- 

 illary reaching to below orbit; back somewhat arched; ventral outline 

 nearly straight ; eyes large; lateral lines 2 (the lowermost lateral line 

 wanting); median lateral line forked; upper branch of median lateral 

 line about f length of the head. Brownish, with several round paler 

 blotches above at the base of the dorsal fin ; spaces between these blotches 

 darker, appearing like bars; a broad black bar crossing the opercle 

 obliquely from below the orbit, and 2 parallel dark bars running back- 

 wards from orbit ; belly yellowish white ; dorsal fin with numerous black 

 dots. North Atlantic, south to Cape Cod; very rare. (subMfurcatus, some- 

 what forked.) 



Pholis subbifurcatus, STORER, Rep. Fish. Mass., 63, 1839, Nahant, Mass. (Coll. Dr. Thos. 



M. Brewer) ; DE KAY, N. Y. Fauna: Fishes, 150, 1842; STORER, Hist. Fish. Mass., 258, 



1867. 

 Eumesogrammus nubbifurcatus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 775, 1883. 



