Jordmi and Everuiann, — Fishes of North America. 2123 



recorded from Uualaska, St. Paul Island, off Indian Point, Cape Chaplin, 

 Eastern Siberia, Petropaulski, and Bering Strait. 



The following is the substance of the account of Liparis fjihbus which 

 Garman identifies, apparently correctly, with Liparis agasaizii : 



Head 3i ; depth 3i. D. 42 ; A. 36 ; P. 85 ; C. 12. Body abruptly contracted 

 near the vent, covered with las skin; interorbital space shallow-concave, 

 the vertex and nape somewhat elevated; snout depressed; head as wide 

 as long, longer than deep; nostrils tubular, the tubes of anterior nostrils 

 longest ; eye small, 4 in head ; ventral disk nearly circular, 8 in length ; 

 vertical fins confluent; dorsal continuous; longest dorsal ray ^ as long 

 as head; pectorals reaching front of anal; caudal 6 in body. Head and 

 body very pale brown or gray, paler below; head and anterior parts some- 

 times with concentric brown rings, much as in Liparis pulchdlm; sides 

 plain or marked with brown stripes and rings; tail sometimes with dark 

 blotches; Aertical fins usually with dark bands. Bering Sea, Aleutian 

 Islands, and Siberia. (Named for Prof. Louis Agassiz). 



Gyclopterus liparis, Bloch, Ausland. Fische, i, 48, 1785, in part, Pacific specimen.s. 

 Liparis agassizii, Putnam, Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 1874, 339, Saghalien, Channel of 



Tartary (Coll. Pierce and Smith) ; G-arman, Discoboli, 62, pis. 1-3, 1892. 

 Liparis (jibhus, Bkan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1881, 148, Unalaska, St. Paul Island, Indian 



Point, Cape Chaplin, and Plover Bay, Siberia; JoKD.UJ & GILBERT, Synopsis, 



741, 1883. 



2454. LIPARIS HERSCHELIXIS, Scofleld. 



Head 3i in body; depth 3f. D. 42; A. 33; pectoral 35; caudal 10; 

 eye 4i in head, and H in snout; interorbital sjiace 3 in head; maxillary 2 

 in head. Body tadpole-like; head rounded and very little compressed; 

 abdomen slightly distended; just back of the abdomen the body is sud- 

 denly compressed to a width equaling ^ its height, and from this point 

 the body gradually tapers to the caudal, its height and width keeping the 

 same proportions; the height of the base of the caudal equals the diame- 

 ter of the eye; the maxillary extends to posterior edge of eye, and its end 

 is concealed in the base of the skin of the head; upper jaw slightly longer 

 than lower; teeth tricuspid; interorbital space flat; nape slightly ele- 

 vated; gill openings small; the width of the slit equaling the interorbital 

 space; the lower edge of the slit even with the first pectoral ray; the 

 posterior nostrils end in very short, compressed tubules about ^ diameter 

 of eye in front of eye ; the anterior nostrils are simple and placed directly 

 in front of the posterior nostrils a distance equal to ^ diameter of eye. 

 The dorsal begins on a vertical line drawn from posterior edge of gill flap; 

 the anterior rays are short, gradually lengthening till middle of fin is 

 reached, where the rays equal 2i times the diameter of the eye, the last 

 rays scarcely shortened and not forming a notch at its junction with the 

 caudal; last rays encroaching on the caudal for \ of its length; anal same 

 shape as dorsal and of same height, its last rays encroaching on caudal for 

 i its length ; upper lobe of pectoral composed of 25 rays, the eleventh and 

 longest ray 1^ in head; length of twenty-fifth ray 4 in head, lower lobe 

 with 10 rays, of which the third from the last, or twenty-third, is the long- 



