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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



Slender, of nearly uniform depth throughout, the body everywhere a little compressed; opercular 

 region compressed, like the body, the occiput depressed and fiat, the cheeks greatly swollen, the snout 

 depressed, wider than deep. Mouth slightly oblique, the maxillary reaching the vertical from pos- 

 terior border of orbit; teeth small, conical, none of them enlarged; those on premaxillaries in a single 

 irregular series, within which near the median line, one or two supplementary teeth; those on mandi- 

 ble in a very short broad band; one or two teeth on head of vomer; a short single series on palatines, 

 the premaxillary series shuts outside the mandibular band and also extends beyond it laterally. A 

 series of wide slitlike pores on preorbital and mandible. The gill opening begins on the level of the 

 eye and reaches a point in front of lower pectoral ray. 



Scales small, without definite arrangement, continued on vertical fins and on basal half of posterior 

 face of pectorals; they are more crowded on abdomen, and become reduced in size on nape and on 

 upper half of opercle, the rest of head being naked. 



Origin of dorsal above middle of pectoral; posterior line of occiput midway between front of eye 

 and origin of dorsal. Ventrals very small, not reaching the line joining lower pectoral rays, this line 

 midway between tip of snout and vent. 



Color olive-brown, in life with greenish gilt in varying amount on top and sides of head and front 

 face of pectorals; lower parts darker. 



Three cotypes were taken at station 4797, with the type. 



Bothrocara mollis Bean. 



List of Stations. 



Bowers Bank, Bering Sea, and the viciiiity of Avatcha Bay, east coast of Kamchatka. 



GADID^. 



Eleginus navaga (Kolreuter). 

 Petropavlovsk. 



Gadus macrocephalus Tilesius. 



LTnalaska. 



Antimora microlepis Bean. 



List op Stations. 



Bowers Bank, Bering Sea, and the vicinity of Avatcha Bay, Kamchatka. 



