FISHES OF PUGET SOUND. 829 



One specimen brought up from deep water in the 

 dredge, x /n inch in length. Numbered 3131 on the regis- 

 ter of the Leland Stanford Jr. University Museum. 



This species seems to belong to the genus Lethotremus 

 Gilbert, MS. From L. muticus, type of the genus, it is 

 distinguished by its few -raved fins and by its scanty 

 prickles. 



93. Eumicrotremus orbis (Giinther). 



One specimen of this interesting fish taken, 2 inches in 

 length. 



Family LIPARIDID^. 



94. Neoliparis greeni Jordan and Starks, n. sp. Plate 

 xcvi. 



Head 3-|; depth 4; depth at disk 5; dorsal VI -34; 

 anal 30; pectoral 35; caudal 15; eye small, about 10 in 

 head; snout 2^; longest pectoral ray 1^; disk 2^; 

 longest dorsal ray 2^ ; longest anal ray 2^ ; caudal i^j\ 



Body elongate, posteriorly compressed; profile undu- 

 late, over snout blunt and rounded, depressed over eyes, 

 well rounded from eyes over occipital region. Skin 

 thin and exceedingly loose, nearly to the end of the dor- 

 sal and anal rays. 



Jaws equal; maxillary extending to posterior margin 

 of eye; teeth small, nearly simple, depressible and blunt, 

 slightly hooked back, arranged in oblique series, those in 

 the front running nearly straight in, but towards the sides 

 of the jaw they grow more and more oblique till they are 

 nearly parallel with the jaw at the sides ; superior pharyn- 

 geal teeth conical and sharp, slightly longer than the teeth 

 in the jaws, arranged in a single round patch on each 

 side; inferior pharyngeals separate, with small teeth. 

 (Teeth probably tricuspid in young specimens.) 



Posterior nostrils in a short wide tube; cheeks well 



