2410 Bulletin 4.7, United States National Museum. 



2765. BRTOSTEMMA NUGATOB, Jordan & Williams. 



Head 54^; depth 5A; D. LIV; A. 41; V. I, 3; pores of lateral line 25. 

 Body elongate, less compressed than iu Bryostemma 2^ol>/actocephitluvi, cov- 

 ered with small, smooth, embedded scales. Head short, very obtuse, almost 

 truncate; top of head from nostrils to near front of dorsal covered with 

 lleshy cirri, much smaller than iu B.pohjaHoccplialum; only 2 or 3 small ones 

 extending on first dorsal spine; supraorbital cirrus short, 4 to 5 in head; 

 2 small cirri placed at the sides of snout Avith a larger median one behind 

 them, forming a triangle; jaws equal; mouth horizontal, the angle extend- 

 ing to l)elow pupil; eyes small, 4 iu head; snout very short, almost verti- 

 cally truncate, | in eye; teeth of both jaws subequal, shoi't, bluntish, and 

 close set. Lateral line short, 1\ in length of body, concurrent with the 

 dorsal outline of body. A line of pores begins in front of eye ou a level 

 with pupil, runs under eye and to a level with pnpil again, then back to 

 and along the entire length of the short lateral line. Gill rakers not 

 developed; gill membranes free from isthmus. Vent ^ distance from tip 

 of snout to tip of caudal ; distance from origin of ventral to anus 4| in 

 length of body Pectoral fin 5i in body, as long as head. Dorsal fin begin- 

 ning in front of the pectoral, highest along the posterior hall', tbe long- 

 est spine 2| iu head, the fiu higher than anal; dorsal slightly joined to 

 caudal ; anal separated from caudal ; caudal rounded, 1* in head ; first 

 dorsal spine 4^ in head, its surface with 2 or 3 small cirri. Color in spir- 

 its of 1 specimen, probably male, dark brown, with 13 pale cross bars 

 along back, extending on dorsal fin; along sides these become obsolete; 

 on belly they become increased in number and broadened below; dorsal 

 fin with 13 large, very distinct black ocelli with yellowish rings, 1 

 between each pair of the pale blotches; anal with about 7 small blackish 

 spots at base ou posterior part, the tin otherwise nearly plain; caudal 

 faintly barred with light and dark; pectorals pale, with 2 dark pale- 

 edged oblique bars before it; sides of head with irregular dark vertical 

 bars, 1 of them forming an inverted A below eye, this and others extend- 

 ing across lower jaw; cirri mostly black. The other specimen, probably 

 the female, has the body nearly i>lain brown, the dorsal with but 4 ocelli, 

 the anterior 9 being replaced by dark bars on the fin; anal with dark 

 ol)lique crossbars; pectorals baried with black ; markings on head more 

 sharply defined, coloration otherwise similar. This second specimen is 4f 

 inches in length, the other 4. Puget Sound; the above account from the 

 2 original types from near Seattle. Three others since obtained near 

 Channel Rocks, Port Orchard, show the following life coloration : Dark 

 red above, orange brown below, belly cream color; sides below with 

 cream-colored cross bars, wider than eye, running from the axis of body 

 downward and fading into the general color below; a A-shaped mark 

 downward from eye across branchiostegals to isthmus, a similar mark 

 behind eye across edge of preopercle, this last sometimes broken up 

 and chain-like; top of head dark; snout light; 2 oblique dark bars at 

 base of pectoral ; dorsal with 12 or 13 sharp dark brown spots as large as 

 eye, edged with bright red, these arranged regularly along the whole 

 length of fin ; pectorals and caudal bright red with wavy, irregular, brown 



