Jordan a)id Evcrmann. — Fishes of North America. 2121 



orbital is contained 3 times iu tlie head; tlie auteriov nostrils are simple, 

 the posterior tuhnlar ; the dorsal and anal are connate with the caudal, 

 the former united for about ^ of the length of the caudal, the latter | ; 

 caudal convex behind and forms \ of the length, the x'cctoral 5^; ventral 

 disk 10. Color uniform, rusty brown or chestnut, Avithout spots or bands. 

 Port Foulke, Greenland (Gill). We have seen no siiecimeus, and follow 

 authority in regarding Fabricins's count of the caudal rays as probably 

 an error. Garman uses the name tunicatus instead of minor, apparently 

 regarding the original use of the latter name as simply that of the abjec- 

 tive meaning smaller, not as part of the binominal nomenclature, (tuni- 

 catus, bearing a cloak.) 



Cycloptenis liparts minor, Fabricius, Fauna Grcenlanclica, 135, 1780, Greenland ; D. 39; A. 

 33 ; P. 30 ; V. 2 ; C. 14 ; not binomial, minor being merely an adjective, meaning smaller. 



Liparis tunicata, Reinhardt, Overs. Kong. Danske Yidensk. Selsk., vi, cxi, 1836, Green- 

 land; after Fabricius ; Garman, Discoboli, 65, 1892. 



Liparis fabricii, Kroyer, Naturh. Tid8skr.,ii, 274, 1847, Greenland; D. XIII, 27; A.ii,30; 

 P. 34; C. 9; Vert. 46; (J-UNTHER, Gat., Ill, 161, 1861; GiLL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 

 1864, 192. 



Liparis arctica, GiLL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 1864, 191, Port Foulke.Greenland; Jordan &, Gil- 

 beet, Synopsis, 742, 1883. 



2453. LIPABIS AGASSIZII, Putman. 



Head 3*; depth 4. D. 39; A. 31; pectoral 34; caudal 12; eye 6 iu 

 head ; iuterorbital 2^ ; snout 2| ; ventral disk Ig ; pectoral li ; caudal li. 

 Body elongate, compressed posteriorly, about as wide as deep anteriorly; 

 head as deep as broad, A longer ; mouth moderately large, the maxillary 

 reaching slightly past front of eye; lower jaw included; teeth small, tri- 

 cuspid, arranged iu 8 or 9 oblique rows, which gfow more oblique toward 

 the sides; snout broad and blunt, slightly overhanging the mouth ; nos- 

 trils ending in tubes, the anterior tube wider and longer than posterior; 

 nape high and prominent, scarcely produced; gill opening short, its lower 

 ^ or i in front of the pectoral, extending downward to about the second 

 or third ray, its length a little greater than width of eye. Ventral disk 

 slightly longer than broad, its distance from end of lower jaw If its 

 length, its posterior margin scarcely midway between its anterior and 

 front of anal; vent nearer posterior margin of disk than front of anal; 

 pectoral broadly rounded behind, the notch made by the produced lower 

 rays shallow, end of fin reaching to the vertical from front of anal ; origin 

 of dorsal just over posterior edge of ventral disk, its distance from snout 

 about 3 in body, slightly joined to the caudal posteriorly; origin of anal 

 nearer to snout by a distance equal to length of snout posteriorly joined 

 to the caudal, the tips of the last rays reaching nearly to the middle of 

 caudal rays. Color olive brown, irregularly marked with dark brown 

 spots the size of pupil; belly white; top of head darker than body; dorsal 

 spotted like the body; spots on anal iu the form of indistinct bands; pec- 

 toral marked with interrupted irregular streaks; a wide dark band across 

 middle of caudal rays, 2 or 3 other narrow streaks across caudal. Here 

 described from a specimen collected by the Albatross at Station 3247, in 

 Bristol Bay, Alaska, in 17 fathoms. Its length is nearly 3 inches. 

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