Jordan and Evcrmann. — Fishes of North America. 'iA.ll 



uremeuts are taken is a little over 4 inches in length. Specimens vary 

 greatly in depth of body. Length 10 inches. Northern Pacilic, Alaska to 

 Monterey.* Common ; specimens are recorded from Puget Sound and from 

 Tongass, St. Paul, Kadiak, Unalaska, and other localities in Alaska. 

 The specimen from the northernmost locality examined by us is from 

 Bristol Bay in 16 fathoms (Coll. Albatross). The species is not rare about 

 San Francisco and Monterey, where the striped form is almost exclusively 

 found. (puIcheUus, pretty.) 



Liijaris pulchellus, Ayres, Proc. Cal. Ac. Nat. Sci., l, 1855, 23, San Francisco; Gunthek, 

 Cat., HI, 164, 1861; Steindachner, Iclitli. Beitriige, in, 53, 1875; Jordan •& Gilbert, 

 Synopsis, 741, 1883; Garman, Discoboli, 67, pis. 4,5, and 8, 1892. 



Cyclogaster pulchellus, Girard, Pac. R. R. Rept., x, Fishes, 132, 1858. 



Subgenus ACTINOCHIR, Gill. 



2458. LIPARIS MA.JOR (Gill). 



Head 4 in length. D. 45 to 48; A. 38 to 40; P. 34 to 37; caudal 12 to 14; 

 vertebra} 52 (10-}-42); ca}ca26; branchiostegals 6. Body elongate, much 

 compressed and tapering posteriorly, rather thin behind the abdomen, 

 slender at the base of the caudal, broad and high between the pectorals. 

 Head high and broad, prominent at nape, length a little more than depth, 

 forehead depressed; snout broad, blunt, rounded, rather deep, as long- 

 as eye; mouth anterior, broad, maxillary subtending the eye, jaws about 

 eqnal; a broad interruption in lower lip in middle of chin; teeth small, 

 in pavement, tricu.spid in younger .specimens, simple in old. Some of 

 those from which this description is drawn show the 3 pronged teeth in 

 the outer rows, and an approach to the simple in the inner. A series of 

 5 or 6 pores on each side, just above upper lip, from snout to postor- 

 bital region; another of 6 or 7 pores from chin toward upper angle of gill 

 opening; posterior nostril reduced, pore-like, on interorbital space; ante- 

 rior in front of eye, tubular; between and a little in front of the tubes 

 a couple of large pores. Eye moderately large, in anterior half of head, 

 lateral, about equal to snout, once in interorbital space, 1^ times in disk, 

 and 3i in head; disk small, little longer than wide, IJ times as long as 

 eye, distant from mouth 1^ times the length, which is equal to ^ distance 

 to anal fin; vent about midway from disk to first ray of anal; gill open- 

 ing little wider than eye, ^ of its extent in front of base of pectoral ; 1 

 single and 3 double gills; pseudobranchia^, small; opercular spine rather 

 broad; skin thin, loose, easily carried away, that of the males in breeding 

 season roughened with small, spine-bearing papilhc ; dorsal and anal con- 

 tinuous with the caudal, the union occupying nearly I length of la.st, 

 anal extending a little farther back than dorsal. Caudal rays less than | 

 as loug as head, hinder margin of the fin slightly rouniled, narrow; pec- 

 torals broad and rounded in the upper portion, reaching anal fin; in the 

 lower portion fringed; several of the rays at sides of disk, much longer 

 than those immediately above them, form a notch in the margin, a fold 

 uniting the fins in front of disk; no apparent notch in dorsal; like the 



* Our Monterey specimens have D. 48; A. 39; P. 36; C. 12. Head 5; depth 5. 



