THE FISHES OF ALASKA. 



275. Psettichthys melanostictus Girard. 



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The collection contains i specimens, G.25 to 15 inches long, collected off Cape Flattery, at Seattle 

 (1888), and near Marrowstone Point (1903). 

 Recorded from Wrangell (Bean 1882). 



Fig. 135 i 1 1< titbys mclanostlctua Qirard. 

 276. Parophrys vetulus Girard. 



Twenty-two specimens L.75 to 8.5 inches long collected at the following places: Marrowstone Point; 

 Klawak; Gabriola Island; Kilisut Harbor; Port Townsend; Vakuiai: and For) Rupert. Others were 

 seen or collected at Seattle; Tribune Bay; Marrowstone Point; Quarantine Station; Kili.-nt Barbor; 

 and stations 2869, 3460, 1214, 1219, 1221, 1269, and 1271. 



Some of the small specimens have ground color brown, irregularly blotched with black. There 

 are, however, on the same specimen, round blotches of black Bomewhal smaller than eye at regulai 

 intervals around the body jusl below base of dorsal and above base of anal; in some specimens tl 

 dark blotches have smaller white blotches between them; a small white blotch at each end of interorbital 

 i : a distinct white Bpol just below axil of pectoral, another at base of ventral, these quite constant 

 in all ■an- specimens; tins decidedly blotched. 



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Fig. 136. (nopsottfl Isehyra (Jordan & Gilbert). 



277. Inopsetta isehyra (Jordan & Gilbert). 



Recorded from Unalaska (Nelson 1887). 



278. Isopsetta isolepis i Lockington 



We have I apecimens, hi..") to 12 inches long, collected at Seattle ami si a i ions 2869, 4276, and 4297. 



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