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2838. BOTHBOCARA PUSILLA (Bean). 



Head 6 iu the total length; depth 9. D. 95, including \ caudal; A. 81, 

 including \ of caudal; P. 17; eye 3 in head; snout 4. Body elongate, little 

 compressed; head short; mouth small; maxillary extending to below front 

 of pupil; gill clefts narrow, tlie anterior end below margin of preopercle; 

 Avidth of isthmus rather less than \ of orbit; the low dorsal beginning 

 nearly over axil of pectoral ; pectoral nearly | as long as head ; vent as far 

 from end of head as dorsal origin from tip of snout. Color light brown; 

 dorsal and anal with a narrow dark margin. Size small; length 6^ inches. 

 Eastern parts of Bering Sea, and about the Alaskan Peninsula, in rather 

 deep water. Besides the original types Dr. Gilbert rt>cords a few speci- 

 mens from north of Unalaska, at depths of 121 to 351 fathoms. {i^nsWliis, 

 weak.) 



Maynca pmilla, Bean, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mns. 1890, 39, off Nagai Island, lat. 55^ 10' N., 

 Ion. 160° i8' W.,in no fathoms (Type, No. 45360. Coll. Albatross); Gilbert, Rept. 

 TJ. S. Fish Comm. 1893 (1895), 455. 



2839. BOTHBOCARA MOLLIS, Bean. 



Head 4^ in total length in adult, 5j^ to 5^ in young; depth 6| in adult, 

 10 in young. D. 100 to 105 to middle of caudal; A. 89 to 95 to middle of 

 caudal ; eye 4 in head iu adult, 3^ in young. Body covered with embedded 

 scales, which extend on dorsal and anal fins. Head naked, breast and nape 

 scaly; snout blunt, the lower jaw included; maxillary reaching middle 

 of pupil, 21 in head; large mucous cavities conspicuous along mandible, 

 suborbital ring, and top of head; vomerine and palatine teeth present, 

 the latter in a narrow band, obscure in the young. Pectoral 2 in head; 

 origin of dorsal slightly behind base of jiectoral, its distance from tip of 

 snout 4 in total length ; origin of anal under seventeenth dorsal ray ; longest 

 dorsal ray 5 in head; longest anal ray 8^ in head. Gill openings wider 

 than in Botlirocara piisiUa, the anterior end of the cleft under posterior mar- 

 gin of eye, the width of the isthmus less than l diameter of pupil. Color 

 uniform brown, fins lighter; dorsal and anal margined with black, more 

 prominent i)osteriorly where it covers the entire fins. North Pacific. 

 Adult examples from southern California, 18 inches long, were described 

 as Maynca hrunnea, while a young individual, 5| inches long, from Queen 

 Charlotte Islands, with the vomerine and palatine teeth not evident, was 

 made the type of a distinct genus, as Botlirocara mollis. The two are 

 identical and apparently belong to the same genus as B. pusilla. Similar 

 specimens, 1 adult and 2 young, were dredged by us (Albatross) olf Bogoslof 

 Island in 664 fathoms. Dr. Gilbert records also specimens from near 

 Unalaska, depth 316 fathoms. The teeth on the palatines are in a single 

 series instead of a wide band, as stated in the original description, {mollis, 

 soft.) 



Sothrocara mollis. Bean, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus. 1890, 38, off Queen Charlotte Islands, in 

 876 fathoms (Type, No. 45359. CoM. Albatross) ; Joedan & Gilbert, Kept. Fur Seal 

 Invest., 1898. 



Maynea hrunnea. Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mua. 1890, 39, lat. 33° 8' N., Ion. 118° 40' W., off 

 San Clemente Island, southern California, in 414 fathoms. {GoM. Albatross.) 



