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head. The vent is under the forty-s<'cond dorsal spine. The caudal 

 contains 17 or 18 rays, and is connate with the dorsal and anal hns. 



A narrow, dark band from each eye around the throat, continued on 

 the interorbital space by narrower dark lines inclosing a diamond- 

 shaped pale area between the eyes. Pale bands in front of and 

 behind the eye continued over the top of the head, the hinder one as 

 broad as the eye in its widest portion and bounded behind by a narrow, 

 dark line. Fourteen or 15 broad, dark bands on tlie sides alternating 

 with saddle-shaped markings on the back and dorsal tin, the widest 

 bands nearly one-half length of head. The markings become indistinct 

 posteriorly. 



The type of Murwnoides maxiUaris was destroyed in 1883, and the 

 published description is now the only means of comparison with M. 

 t(eni((. The differences observed are too imijortant to be passed over 

 without notice. The length of the maxilla in M. maxiUaris equals one- 

 half the distance from the tip of the snout to the dorsal origin (one- 

 third in taenia) ; the mandilile is as long as the pectoral in maxiUaris 

 (about two-tliirds as long in ta'nia). It may be found that a series of 

 specimens from St. Paul Island will establish the identity of maxiUaris 

 with tamia. 



A smaller example, No. 38967, U.S.X.M., was obtained by N. Greb- 

 nitski at Petropaulski, in Se])tember, 1883. Length, 74 mm. This has 

 alternating dark and light bauds on the sides, about 18 to 20 of each. 

 The tops of some of the light bands on the dorsal fin inclose a brown 

 blotch as in maxiUaris. 1). LXXXVIII; A. II, 14, 



PHOLIS RUBERRIMUS (Cuvie and Valenciennes). 



No. 475(38, IT.S.N.M. Five specimens. Yesso, Japan, July, 1894; 

 N. Grebnitski. D. 92; A. 50 (the largest). Length from 5 to 8 inches- 

 These are from Volcano Bay, Port Mororan. 



The pink color is not fixed, but comes off upon the hands and the 

 muslin wrappings. 



PHOLIS NEBULOSUS (Schlegel;. 



No. 47560, IT.S.N.M. (47507). Yesso, Japan; N. Grebnitski. D. 

 LXIII; A. II, 42 (I). Length, 0§ to 7| inches. 



PHOLIDAPUS, new genus. 

 (Plate XXXIV.) 



Body and tail as in Pholis, but shorter and deeper; head small, com- 

 pressed, naked, provided with numerous mucous pores; anterior nos- 

 trils narrow slits, posterior nostrils tubular; mouth small, oblique; 

 intermaxillary teeth in two rows, blunt conical, the last one on each 

 side of the outer row enlarged, canine like; mandibulary teeth conical, 

 moderately sharp-pointed, uniserial ; no teeth on vomer or palate ; upper 



