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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



229. Lumpenus angnillaris i Pallas |. 



This species was found to be quite common. It was taken at various points and seen at many others 

 from Seattle to Atka Island. One hundred and fifty-two specimens, ranging from 1.75 to 14.5 inches 

 in length, were secured from the following places: Seattle; Kilisut Harbor; Duncan Canal; Loring; 

 Ankau River; New Morzhovoi; Pablof Harbor; Akutan Bay, Makushin Bay; Unalaska; Atka: and 

 stations 4214, 4218, 423d, 4272. and 4296. 



Recorded (Bean 1882) from Port Mulgrave, Yakutat Bay; Chugachik Bay, Cook Inlet; Port Levas- 

 hef, Iliuliuk and Chernofski, Unalaska; Wrangell and Sitka, and, in cruise of the Corwin. from Point 

 Belcher. Also from Norton Sound (Nelson 1887). Nakal Harbor and Boca de Quadra (Bean 18sii. 

 Unalaska (Gilbert 1895). 



230. Lumpenus mackayi Gilbert. 

 Originally describe 1 by Gilbert (1895) from mouth of Nushagak River. 



231. Lumpenus fabricii (Cuvier <& Valenciennes). 

 Recorded from Bristt 1 Bay at stations 3241 to 3244 (Gilbert 1805) as Leptoblenniw nubilus. 

 232. Lumpenus longirostris Evermann & Goldsborough, new species. 



Head 5.25 in length; depth 8.2: eye 4.75 in head; snout 2.8; dorsal lxiii (lxiii to lxxii; anal in 

 (m to v), 39 (38 to 42); interorbital 1.2 in eye. 



Body elongate, compressed; head long, compressed, interorbital slightly convex; eye large, elon- 

 gate, median, high; snout long, blunt, and projecting, mouth small, nearly horizontal, lower jaw included; 

 maxillary not nearly reaching eye, reaching halfway from tip of snout to posterior edge of eye; teeth in a 

 single crowded row on each jaw, crowded and more or less in a patch anteriorly, no teeth on vomer or 

 palatines; gill-openings continued forward to below anterior edge of pupil, the membranes then narrowly 

 joined to isthmus. 



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Fig. 115. — Lumpenus longirostris Evermann & Goldsborough, new species. Type. 



Dorsal fin beginning immediately above upper end of gill-opening, the spines short, strong, and pun- 

 gent, none of them flexible, the anterior ones very short, less than width of pupil, the fin gradually 

 increasing in height to opposite front of anal, thence decreasing very slowly to posterior end. the longest 

 spine about 1.3 in snout, the third ray from last two-thirds height of longest ray, the tips of the spines 

 naked for about one-quarter of their height; anal with 3 (in most examples 4) strong spines similar to 

 those of dorsal fin, the first half as high as second, which equals third, soft rays all forked and of about 

 equal length, the last 3 free for upper third of their length; caudal rounded, 1.9 in head; ventral short, 

 of 1 short, sharp strong spine, equal to perpendicular diameter of eye, and 3 simple rays, the fin 2 in snout ; 

 pectoral large, rounded, the middle rays longest, 1.5 in head. 



Scales small, smooth, rounded, covering entire body and head, those of head smaller and more 

 closely imbricated. 



The foregoing description from the type no. 57827 U. S. National Museum, a specimen 9.3 inches 

 long, taken in Lynn Canal, July 10, 1903, at Albatross station 4255. The Bureau of Fisheries cotype is 

 no. 5232; Stanford University Museum, no. 20013; Field Museum of Natural History, no. 01 111; 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, no. 33005. 



Life colors of one example: Back and upper side light olivaceous with darker brownish blotches; 

 middle of side and underparts sooty blue; middle part of belly blackish; pectoral and ventral dark; 

 dorsal pale yellowish at base, a narrow dark line near edge." 



a Not necessarily color of type, it not being known from wlueh specimen the note was taken. 



