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rounded; gill-rakers short and thick, no longer on the 

 outer side of the first arch than on the other arches, fourth 

 arch not free: gill-slit short, its length contained about 

 3 times in head, its lower edge extending in front of pec- 

 toral to about the third ray ; opercles with a blunt spine 

 which is covered by the skin. 



Dorsals two, connected by a low membrane; first 

 dorsal about twice as high as anterior part of second 

 dorsal; the first rays of pectorals inserted under eye and 

 in front of disk; the anterior rays short, graduated to 

 the sixth ray, which is about 4 times longer than the first, 

 the next few rays again short and gradually lengthening 

 posteriorly; posterior rays }< longer than anterior, fin 

 broadly rounded behind; ventral disk nearly round, its 

 posterior edge reaching the vertical from gill-slit; its 

 distance from tip of lower jaw 1% times its length: 

 caudal truncate or slightly rounded: vent under ends of 

 pectorals. 



Color, in alcohol, uniform brown, breast and lower 

 parts of head creamy, fins slightly darker. When fresh 

 the sides were blotched with pinkish. 



The type of this species is a specimen 10 inches long, 

 in the Leland Stanford Jr. University Museum, number 

 3019. It was collected in the Harbor of Victoria by Mr. 

 Ashdown H. Green, of Victoria, President of the Nat- 

 ural History Society of that town. 



95. Neoliparis floras Jordan & Starks n. sp. Plate xcvi. 



Head 34 in length of body: depth at ventral disk $ l / 2 ; 

 depth under middle of soft dorsal 4^; dorsal VI -27; 

 anal 21 to 23; caudal 15; pectoral 30; eye 7 in head; 

 interorbital space 2^; maxillary 2 l /> \ pectoral if; ven- 

 tral disk 2%. 



A small specimen collected at Waadda Island. Neah 



