780 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 



back: a third along base of anal. Width of head equal to greater 

 depth of body; iuterorbital area equal to snout, or one-third length of 

 mandible: maxillary reaching a little behind eye, its length 3 in dis- 

 tance from snout to front of dorsal; eye 2 in snout, 11 in head. Be- 

 ginning at a short distance behind origin of dorsal, small, oblong, 

 cycloid scales, closely imbricated, cover a strip of the body along the 

 lateral line; the scaled area gradually widens backward until, behind 

 the vent, only a very narrow strip along bases of dorsal and anal is 

 naked. Dorsal beginning over upper angle of gill-opening; lirst spine 

 half as long as the seventy-first or longest; caudal 11 in length; pec- 

 toral 3 in head. Head G; depth 10. D. LXXVI; A. II, 4G; P. 13; 

 cceca G. L. 30 inches. Coasts of British Columbia and Alaska. (Bean.) 

 (Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882 ) 



422. CRYPT AC ANTIIODES Storer. 



Wry-mouths. 



(Storer, Kept. Fish. Mass. 1839, 28: type Cryptacanthodcs maculatus Storer.) 



Body very long and slender, compressed, naked; lateral line obso- 

 lete; head oblong, cuboid, with vertical cheeks; conspicuous mueifer- 

 ous channels in mandible and preopercle; head flatfish above, with 

 deep rounded pits between and behind eyes ; mouth large, very ob- 

 lique; lower jaw very heavy, its tip projecting; premaxillary not pro- 

 tractile; jaws with rather sharp, conical teeth; larger teeth on the 

 vomer and palatines; most of the teeth in single series. Gill-mem- 

 branes joined to the isthmus; the gill-openings prolonged forwards 

 below; pyloric cosca 5. Dorsal fin long, composed entirely of spines, 

 which are rat her strong, but enveloped in the skin; dorsal and anal 

 joined to the caudal; no ventral fins; pectorals short. Size rather 

 large; one species known. (x(>u--uz, hidden; axav0t>V y ?, spined.) 



1&91. <'. :ii:ir:jJulsis Storer. 7/V I/-K> nth; (;luit-f(tt1i. 



Light brownish, with several series of smallish dark spots, arranged 

 in more or le>s i.-idar rows, from the head 1< the base of the caudal; 

 verti'-al tins dosel\ spoiled with darker: head above thickly speckled; 

 body sometimes (> 'nun mitus") entirely immaculate. E\es small, placed 

 high, not so wide as the iiiterorbital space, which has 1' ridges and 3 

 pils; orbital rim raised; U deep pits behind eye at the temples; a 

 deeper pit on the top of head between them; a raised ridge con- 

 tinued backward on each side of head behind orbital rim; maxillary 

 extending to beyond eye; pseiidobrancliia- small; pectorals short, 3 iu 



