386 FISHES OF KAMCHATKA AXD JAPAN— BEAX .f- BE AX. 



First dorsal from snout, 2g inches; aual from snout, 3i inches. The 

 mandible extends to below middle of eye. 

 D, VIII, 8; A. 13: lateral line, 42. 



SIPHAGONUS BARBATUS, Steindachner. 

 Siphatjonihs harhatus, STEIXl>AriiM;it, Icli. Beitr.. V. ISTfi, \^. 110. 



No. 33858, U.S.X.M. (2587). Petropaulski, Kamchatka, SeptemiRM 

 17, 1883; L. Stejneger. 



No. 38977, U.S.N.M. Petropaulski, Au.uust, 1883; X. Cirebnitski; 

 sixteen specimens. | 



LUMPENUS ANGUILLARIS tPallasi. Gill. 



No. 38959, U.S.N.M. Petropaulski, September. 1883; N. Grebnitski; 

 one specimen; length, 105 mm. 



D. LXVI; A. 15; Y. I, 3. No teeth on vomer; palatines apparently 

 present, but doubtfully made out. The head is contained 5|, the depth 

 10 times, in length to base of caudal. The eye is placed high ; its long 

 diameter is equal to the length of the snout and one-fourth the lenglh 

 of head. The lower jaw is distinctly shorter than the upper. ]\Ioutli 

 small and narrow; the maxilla reaches to below the front of the eye. 

 The interorbital space is very narrow, scarcely two-thirds as long as the 

 eye. The pectoral tin is nearly as long as the head, reaching to below 

 the thirteenth spine of the dorsal. Yentral very slender, two-lifths as 

 long as head. The vent is under the twenty-third spine of the dorsal, 

 much nearer the tip of the snout than the base of the tail. The caudal 

 is long and tapering, nearly as long as the head without the snout. The 

 dorsal and anal fins are low; the anterior spines of the dorsal gradu- 

 ated, the longest spine one-third length of head. The anal fin is not 

 quite so high as the dorsal. The gill-rakers are short and stout, less 

 than half as long as the eye, 12 below the angle on the first arch. 

 There are about 20G rows of scales on the body. 



In spirits the ground color is pale olive-brown. The body is profusely 

 mottled with irregular dusky mottlings, most distinct along the middle 

 line and close to the ridge of the back. The caudal fin is also mottled 

 in its anterior half The pectorals, ventrals, and anal are pale. 



Another example, No. 27575, U.S.N.M., collected in Plover P.ay, Sibe- 

 ria, by Capt. E. P. Herendeen, is 132 mm. long and has the dorsal LXIII; 

 A. I, 40; Y. I, 3. In this example the mottlings are absent from the 

 dorsal tin, but otherwise the color is similar to that of the specimen 

 above described. 



The palatine teeth are very weak and easily rubbed off, but can be 

 determined with certainty. The lower jaw is included as in the other 

 specimen. Branchiostegals, 0. The gill mend)ranes are united at the 

 isthmus without free posterior border; the angle is very deep, so that 

 the distance from its apex to the root of the ventrals equals two- 

 filths the length of the head. The spincms dorsal begins immediately 



