FISHES FROM BERING SEA AND KAMCHATKA. 



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forward and downward in a large irregular blotch; one under posterior third of soft dorsal di\'ided below 

 lateral line into two or three diverging branches; one on back of caudal peduncle, with two or more 

 diverging branches below lateral line, the posterior of which nearly or quite encircles tail; head dusky 

 anteriorly, without defined markings; under side of head punctate with black, sometimes with faint 

 bars on lips and concentrations of the black dots about the sensory pores. Soft dorsal and caudal very 

 faintly and finely barred, the bars sometimes irregtdar and ill defined; spinous dorsal irregularly 

 blotched with black; a black blotch on base of pectorals, widest below; terminal half of pectorals finely 

 barred, a basal portion unmarked; the anal may be unmarked, or the membranes may be blotched 

 with black. 



A single cotype, from the same station as the type, is apparently a male, with darker coloration, 

 including irregular black markings on the anal fin. It has also a broad cleft cirrus above posterior part 

 of orbit, not distinguishable in the type. 



Fig. 9. — Stelgistrum brringianum. new species. Type. 



Hemilepidotus hemilepidotus (Tilesius). 



In this species tlie lower band of scales is closely approximated to the lateral line throughout its 

 course, the interspace where widest not exceeding the width of one scale. In other species the inter- 

 space widens rapidly anteriorly and may equal the width of half the band. 



In 2 1 specimens fin rays are as follows, the terminal split ray of dorsal and anal being counted as one: 



Not taken in the dredge, but found abundantly in shallow water at Unalaska, Agattu, Attn, and 

 Medni Islands. Young were found in tide pools. 



Hemilepidotus jordani Bean. 



In 29 specimens the fin rays varj' as follows: 



