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caudal white; sides and under surface of head with several whitish ob- 

 lique bauds forming V-shaped markings; a few roundish white blotches 

 on sides of head, the most conspicuous behind eye; general color darkish 

 brown, nearly black. Length about 2 inches. Key West; 2 specimens 

 known. (Bean.) (Named for the collector, Henry Hemphill.) 

 Stafh'iionotus hemphillii, Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1885, 191, pi. 13, Key West, Florida. 

 (Coll. Henry Hempliill. Type, No. 37193, U. S. Nat. Mus.) 



goi. BRYOSTEMMA, Jordan &. Starks. 



Bryottemma, Jordan &. Starks, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1895, 841 (polyactocephalum). 



Body moderately elongate, covered with small scales; snout short; no 

 teeth on vomer or palatines; teeth in jaws small; gill membranes united, 

 free from the isthuuis; nostrils, orbital regions, and neck with dermal 

 Haps, the supraorbital flaps high. Dorsal tin long, of spines only ; pecto- 

 rals well developed, more than half length of head; ventrals well devel- 

 oped, jugular; caudal fin distinct. No air bladder or pyloric oieca. No 

 true lateral line; a short series of large pores above pectoral. North Pa- 

 cific, representing Chirolophis of the Atlautic. This genus differs from the 

 European genus, Chirolophis, Swainson {Bhnniops, Nilsson), in the absence 

 of a true lateral line. Dr. Boulenger informs us that a true median lat- 

 eral line is developed in Chirolophis ascanii. {fipvov, moss; drejLtjiia, 

 crown. ) 



a. Dorsal with about 60 spines ; anal witli about 55 soft raY.s ; a black spot on anterior 



part of dorsal, but no ocelli posteriorilj*. roLYACTOCEPHALUM, 2764. 



Oft. Dor.sal with about 54 spines; anal ■with 40 soft rays; dorsal with several black 



ocelli, most distinct posteriorly. nugator, 2765. 



2764. BUYOSTEMMA POLYACTOCEPHALUM (PaUas). 



Head 6^ ; depth 6. D. LXI ; A. 55 (51 to 57) ; P. 14 ; V. I, 3 ; lateral series 

 with 9 to 15 pores. Body elongate, much compressed, covered with small, 

 smooth, embedded scales. Head very short, blunt in profile ; mouth short, 

 terminal, the maxillary 3 in head; lower jaw heavy, projecting, its tip 

 with 2 small slender cirri, which are pale in color; teeth subequal, .small, 

 bluntish, close set, in 1 row in each jaw; eyes 4 in head, near together; 

 the snout 4; supraorliital cirri 2^ in head; interorbital space flat; a flat 

 fringed cirrus over front of ej'e, these 2 joined at base, about 3 in head; a 

 small cirrus about k length of this over posterior part of each eye, these 5 

 to 6 in head; top of head and nape covered with series of erect cirri, the 

 longest nearly as long as eye ; about 15 minute cirri along dorsal edge of 

 lateral line, 1 on each pore. Rows of jjores running around eye, under pre- 

 opercle, and along entire length of the short lateral line ; lateral series of 

 pores i length of head ; gill rakers not developed. Dorsal fin beginning over 

 pectoral and running to caudal; anterior rays fringed with fleshy cirri; 

 first ray, including cirri, 2 in length of head; anal beginning close be- 

 hind vent and running to caudal, to which it is joined at base; distance 

 from tip of snout to vent nearly 3 in body; pectoral fin but little shorter 

 than head, its breadth at base not .5 its length. Color in spirits, pale 



