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head, the last rays rapidly shortened so as to produce a notch at union 

 Avith the caudal, tho last ray less than | the longest, the membrane join- 

 ing at end of basal third of caudal; the anal liu is equal in height to the 

 dorsal, but the last rays are but little shortened, so that no notch exists 

 posteriorly. It forms a much broader union with the caudal, which it 

 joins at the end of its basal two-thirds; caudal broad, rounded, the outer 

 rays * the length of middle rays, which equal the length of head without 

 the snout. Body everywhere transparent, gelatinous in structure. Colors 

 in life, olivaceous above, overlaid with liglit grayish; belly and lower 

 side of head? light yellow ; body and fins with largo brownish-red or blood- 

 red spots and blotches, usually roundish, each having a darker margin 

 surrounded with a light ring. Length 360 mm. Bering Sea; type from 

 Bristol Bay, in 29i fathoms; a second specimen from St. Paul Island, and 

 a third still larger from Petropaulski ; a most beautifully colored species, 

 quite unlike the others. (Gilbert.) {uvuXoi;, round; 6Tiy/.ia, spot.) 



Liparis cydosligma, Gilbert, Kept. U. S. Fish Comm. 1893 (1896), 446, Bristol Bay, 

 Alaska, at Albatross Station 3252, in 29J fathoms. (Type No. 48621.) 



Subgenus LYOLIPARIS, Jordau & Evermann. 



2457. LIPARIS PULCHELLUS, Ayres. 



Head 4^ in length; depth 4^. D. 47 to 49: A. 40; pectoral 36; caudal 

 12; eyes 6 in head; interorbital space (iiesh, not bone) 2; snout 3; pec- 

 toral li; ventral disk 2|; caudal 1^. Body elongate, somewhat com- 

 pressed, tapering gradually to the caudal. The head is broader and longer 

 than high ; snout subtruncate, overhanging the mouth ; teeth small, tri- 

 cuspid, the median cusp longest, arranged in oblique rows as in the related 

 species ; upper lip complete, the lower interrupted on each side about mid- 

 way between middle of jaw and angle of mouth; interorbital space wide 

 and flat, posterior nostril ending in a short, wide tube, anterior smaller, 

 closer together, about midway between the posterior and end of snout; 

 gill opening moderate, wider than eye, its lower third in front of pectoral, 

 extending downward to the third or fourth ray; sliin thin and loose, as 

 in the other Liparids; vent nearer to anal than ventral disk. Dorsal and 

 anal confluent with the caudal, which seems to end in a point when not 

 spread; origin of dorsal just behind base of pectoral, its distance from 

 snout contained 4 times in the length of body, the anterior rays buried 

 under the skin ; origin of anal nearer snout than base of caudal fin ; pec- 

 torals broadly rounded posteriorily, reaching to front of anal, the lower 

 rays smaller and produced, forming a notch in lower part of fin. Color 

 light olive brown, with numerous waving lines everywhere on head and 

 body, running longitudinally, sometimes running togetlier and forming 

 irregular markings; belly and lower parts of head white; dorsal and anal 

 dusky, with longitudinal stripes and mottlings ; caudal dark at tip ; pec- 

 torals with irregular cross streaks. Others are light brownish with spots 

 of darker, not sliowing any trace of the longitudinal stripes; the head 

 variously marked with irregular vermiculations. Here described from 

 specimens from Point Reyes, California. The one from which the meas- 



