2502 BuUdln //, United States National Museum. 



956. BROSMOPHYCIS, Gill. 



Brosmophycis, Gill, I'roc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pbila. 1861, 168 (marginatus). 

 Halias, Ayees, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1861, 52 (marginatus) ; preoccupied. 



Body elongate, moderately compressed ; head unarmed ; snout not long- ; 

 teeth sharp, evirved, in hands on jaws, vomer, and palatines; small cilia 

 above snout and on anterior part of lower jaw. Body covered with thin 

 cycloid scales; scales on head rudimentary or wanting. Caudal fin differ- 

 entiated, entirely separated from the dorsal and anal; caudal peduncle 

 slender. California. This genus is very close to Ogilbia, differing in the 

 ciliated lips. Its species reaches a larger size. (Brosmius; I'liycis.) 



2873. BROSMOPHYCIS M.4BGINATIIS (Ayres). 



Head 4| in hody; depth 6*^. D.92; A. 70; eye 7^ in head; snout 4^; 

 maxillary 2 ; pectoral If ; caudal 3 ; body elongate, moderately compressed ; 

 snout blunt; profile of head straight from snout; snout scarcely over- 

 hanging mouth; jaws subequal, thi' teeth conical, sharj), and slightly 

 curved back, in bauds on jaws, vomer, and palatines; maxillary reaching 

 ^ the eye's diameter beyond eye ; snout and lower jaw thickly covered with 

 small cilia; head naked with the exception of small scales above; 2 large 

 jiores at tip of chin, a few large ones around preopercle and preorbital, 1 

 around gill opening, behind which is a pocket in the skin ; about 3 short 

 gill rakers developed below the angle of first arch, with many rough 

 plates, not differentiated from those on the other arches. Dorsal and anal 

 long and low, the rays embedded in the skin ; tips of last rays each beyond 

 the base of the caudal about i the length of caudal rays; distance of 

 front of dorsal from snout 3|f in length of body; origin of anal a little 

 nearer base of caudal than tip of snout; pectoral reaching about halfway 

 from its base to front of anal; ventrals developed as long filaments; cau- 

 dal slender and rounded behind. Color bright reddish brown; fins edged 

 with bright rose-red. Coast of California, in water of moderate depth; 

 rare. Here described from a specimen, 12 inches in length, collected oft' 

 San Francisco by Mr. W. G. W. Harford, {marginatus, edged.) 



Brosmius marginatus, Ayres, Proc. Cal. Ac. Nat. Sci., 1, 1854, 13, San Francisco (Coll. W. O. 



Ayres) ; Gieaku, Pac. R. R. Surv., x, Fishes, 141, 1858. 

 Brosnioi>hijcis marginatus, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pbila. 1861,168; Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. 



Sci. Phila. 18G2, 280. 

 Halias marginatus, Ayres, Proc. Cal. Ac. Nat. Sci., pt. 2, 1861, 52. 

 Dinematichthys marginatus. GiJNTHER, Cat. Fishes Brit. Miis., iv, 375; Jordan & Gilbert, 



Synopsis, 796, 1883. 



957. OGILBIA, Jordan & Evermann. 



Ogilbia, Jordan & Evermann, in Evermann ct Kendall, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. 1897 

 (February 9, 1898), 132 (cayorum). 



Body moderately elongate, covered with minute, smooth, embedded 

 scales; sides of head with similar scales; lateral line inconspicuous; 

 opercle with a very small spine, preopercle unarmed; no strong hook 

 on maxillary ; no barbels nor cilia ; teeth in jaws in bands, similar teeth on 



