8l6 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



chin. The genus Siphagonus, to which Dr. Steindach- 

 ner refers it, is based on Agonus segaltensis, which seems 

 to be a true Brachyopsis. 



87. Podothecus acipenserinus (Pallas). 



Very abundant on sand beaches, where it is taken with 

 seines. It reaches a foot in length. Many specimens 

 taken. 



Two additional new species of Podothecus, presented 

 by the Alaska Commercial Company, collected by Capt. 

 J. G. Blair at Robin Island, in the Gulf of Patience, 

 Saghalien, may be here recorded: 



Podothecus accipiter Jordan & Starks, n. sp. Plate 

 lxxxviii. 



Head 34 in length; depth 6]/ 2 ; dorsal VIII-9; anal 

 10; pectoral 15; lateral plates 36; eye 4^ in head; 

 snout i]/%\ second dorsal spine if; second dorsal ray 

 i)4 ; third anal ray i-f; caudal i|; upper ray of pectoral 

 1^; ventrals 2^3 . 



Body elongate, not compressed; head triangular as 

 viewed from above; the mouth wide, entirely inferior, 

 q -shaped, the lower jaw shutting behind the upper by a 

 distance equal to half eye ; maxillary not reaching quite to 

 anterior orbital rim; distance of anterior edge of upper lip 

 from tip of rostral spines a little more than half eye; teeth 

 in upper jaw almost obsolete; villiform band of teeth in 

 lower jaw, wide in front becoming narrow at sides; 

 vomer and palatines toothless; a patch of thick barbels 

 below snout in front of mouth, the longest equal to verti- 

 cal diameter of eye, a similar patch at end of maxillary, 

 about equal in length to the shortest on snout; two short 

 barbels on each side of lower lip between symphysis and 

 angle of mouth. A pair of short, sharp, rostral spines, 

 pointing directly forwards; at their base and much wider 



