FISHES FROM BERING SEA AND KAMCHATKA. 



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Body pale, covered with small, irregular-shaped dark spots; epidermis on head and posterior 0.66 

 of body with the same kind of spots; caudal unmarked; abdomen, gill cavity, and mouth black. 



This species appears to be common in the intermediate depths of Bering Sea and the northern 

 part of the Okhotsk Sea. 



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Fig. 27. — Nectotiparis pelagicus, new species. Type. 



List of Stations. 



ACANTHOLIPARIS, new genus (Cyclogasteridae). 



Ventral disk absent. Pectoral iin broad, not notched. Nostril single. Teeth simple. Pseudo- 

 branchiae absent. Branchiostegals 6. Operculum with its ventral and posterior arms developed as 

 strongly projecting spines. Gill flap supported by the posterior arm of tlie subopcrculum, developed 

 as a slender bony rod crossing the flap at its middle. A deep-sea genus, differing from all other genera 

 of tlic family in the spinous condition of the operclc. 



T>-pe Acantholiparis opercularis, new species. 



Fig. 28. — Acantholiparis opercularis, new species. Type. 



Acantholiparis opercularis, new species. (Fig. 28.) 



Type 76 mm. long, from station 4797, off Staritschkof Island, east coast Kamchatka; depth 682 

 fathoms. 



Head 23 himdredths of length to base of caudal; depth 14; eye 4.5; snout 7; interocular width 9; 

 width of head 18; depth of head 13; distance vent to tip of mandible 17; to front of anal 15; length of 

 pectoral 17. Dorsal 45; anal 39; pectoral 26. 



