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BUI^LETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



List of Stations. 



Psychrolutes paradoxus Giinther. 



Station 4796, off Avatcha Bay, Kamchatka; depth 48 fathoms. 



EURYMEN, new genus (Cottidje). 



Tadpole shaped; skin lax, naked; head smooth, -ivithout spines or tubercles, the nasal, preoper- 

 cular and opercular spines wholly wanting; vomer and palatines toothless; gill membranes broadly 

 united, joined basally to the isthmus, the marginal portion forming a free fold; no pore or slit behind 

 last gill; dorsal fins continuous, notched, the spinous dorsal evident, the spines with free tips; ventrals 

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Closely related to Gilbertidia, from which it differs in the wide free fold to the gill membrane, and 

 in the greatly increased number of rays in the pectoral fin. 



Type species, Eiirymen gyrinus, new species. 



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Fig. 14. — Eurymen gyrinus, new species. Type. 



Eurymen gyrinus, new species. (Fig. 14.) 



Type 50 mm. long, from station 4795, off Avatcha Bay, east coast of Kamchatka; depth 69 fathoms. 



Measurements in hundredths of length without caudal: Head 44; width of head 30; depth of head 

 24; interocular width g; diameter of eye 10; length of snout 13; length of maxillary 21; greatest depth 

 26; depth of caudal peduncle 8; snout to front of dorsal 43: base of dorsal 64; base of anal 32; base 

 of pectoral 20; length of pectoral 28; length of ventrals 22; length of caudal 23. 



Dorsal vin-23; anal 17; pectoral 26. Pores in lateral line 17. 



Head cuboid, a little depressed, with vertical cheeks and depressed broadly rounded snout; inter- 

 ocular space nearly flat, its width nearly equaling diameter of eye; occiput transversely rounded, not 

 ridged; pores scattered on top and sides of head, a series of six on lower edge of suborbitals and preorbital, 

 four on mandible; a short blunt papilla between each two pores on preorbital and mandible; a small 



