FISHES FROM BERING SEA AND KAMCHATKA. 77 



Careproctus mollis, new species. (Fig. 21.) 



Type 84 mm. long, from station 4784, off East Cape, Attn Island, Bering Sea; depth 135 fathoms. 



Head 30 hundredths of length to base of caudal; depth 28; eye 5; snout 11; interocular width 12; 

 maxillary 12.5; gill opening 6; disk 8; distance from disk to tip of mandible 15; to front of anal 22. 

 Dorsal 51; anal 47; pectoral 35; caudal 12. 



Body thickest and deepest in the region of the gill opening, tapering rapidly backward; head 

 swollen at occiput; profile slightly concave over eyes; snout short, blunt, not projecting over mouth, its 

 length greater than diameter of eye; nostril single, with a well developed tube; mouth terminal; jaws 

 subequal; maxillary reaching vertical from just behind pupil; teeth tricuspid, forming narrow bands 

 in each jaw, arranged in oblique rows; eye medium, about equal to bony interorbital space; pupil 

 small, round; gill opening extending down to fourth pectoral ray; opercular flap forming a sharp angle. 

 Disk larger than eye, its anterior edge under posterior edge of orbit; width of disk greater than length. 

 Vent close behind disk, in front of origin of dorsal. 



Dorsal beginning far back; distance from tip of snout to origin of dorsal 3 in length of body; origin 

 of anal under seventh dorsal ray; dorsal and anal rays becoming verj' slender posteriorly, connected to 

 the caudal for more than half its length; caudal narrow, composed of 12 rays; upper edge of pectoral on 



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Fig. 21. — Careproclus mollis, new species. Type. 



a level with the eye; upper lobe of pectoral composed of 30 rays, reaching to anal; lower lobe composed 

 of 5 rays, the upper 3 exserted and extending slightly past vent. Skin nearly all gone; body flesh 

 colored; fins pale. 



This species, from the size of disk and gill opening, appears to be related to C. simus, but it differs 

 in the shape of the snout, the presence of a nostril tube, and in the smaller eye, gill slit, and ventral disk. 



Two small specimens 31 to 45 mm. in length, were taken at station 4781, one in an intermediate 

 haul of 300 fathoms, the other was taken by the dredge in 482 fathoms. In these specimens the skin is 

 present and is dusky along the back and the base of the anal lin. 



Careproctus candidus, new species. (Fig. 22.) 



Type 73 mm. long, from station 4784, off East Cape, Attn Island, Bering Sea; depth 135 fathoms. 



Head 28 hundredths of length without caudal; depth 29; eye 8; snout 12; maxillary 12; gill 

 opening 4.8; disk 9.5; pectoral 25; caudal 14; distance from disk to tip of mandible 10; to front of 

 anal 16. Dorsal 47; anal 39; pectoral 35; caudal 10. 



Body deepest at origin of dorsal, tapering rapidly backward. Head short, its profile descending 

 rapidly from occiput to front of eye, then dropping almost vertically to snout; snout very short and 

 deep; nostril single, in a short tube in front of eye; eye large and prominent; pupil elliptical, the long 

 axis nearly horizontal, directed forward and a little downward; mouth small, terminal; maxillar>- reach- 

 ing vertical from front of pupil; teeth strongly trilobed, in 8 or 9 oblique series in the half of each jaw. 

 Gill slit small, little more than 0.5 eye, entirely above base of pectoral. 



Origin of dorsal above gill slit; fiftli, sixth, and seventh spines weak and shortened, forming a 

 notch which separates off the first 5 spines; dorsal and anal joined to caudal for 0.4 its length; caudal 

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