1900 Bulletin //, United States National Musenni. 



ill A. notospilolus, but extending lower on sides of lieud, covering sub- 

 orbital and postorbital regions, as far down as suborbital stay. Scales 

 on body cup-shaped, arranged, as in A. notospilottts, in a broad band along 

 each side of back ; each liand about 9 scales in breadth ; this band extend- 

 ing much farther l)ack than in A. notospilotns, meeting its fellow across 

 the back of tail behind dorsal fin; a small, but distinct, pore-like slit 

 behind the fourth gill (wholly wanting in A. noiospilotus). Fins low, the 

 dorsal much lower than in A. notospiloiu^s; the longest dorsal spine about 

 equal to snout, 3^ in head (in the female), probably higher in males; ven- 

 trals about reaching vent; pectorals jtast front of anal. Color in spirits, 

 essentially as in A. noioapUotus, but paler; olivaceous, the head mottled 

 and barred with blackish; back with about 4 saddle-like black bars; base 

 of caudal blackish; fins all, except the ventrals, which are pale (jirobably 

 dusky in males), with cross bars and series of sx>ot8; a black blotch l)or- 

 dered by orange between first and second dorsal spines, and another 

 between seventh and eighth. Length 5 inches. Puget Sound; locally 

 common, (fcnestralis, with a window, from the small gill pore.) 



Artedius fenestralis, Jordan &- Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 577, Puget Sound 

 (Type, No. 27206, U. S. Nat. Mus. Coll. Jordan &. Gilbert) ; Jordan & Starks, Proc. 

 Cal. Ac. Sci. 1895, 807. 



711. ARCHISTES, Jordan A Gilbert, new genus. 



Archistes, Jordan & Gilbert, Fishes of Bering Sea, in Kept. Fur Seal Investigations for 

 1896, 1897 MS. (plumarixts). 



Head and body compressed; lateral line armed with a series of spinous 

 plates; a series of smaller similar plates along base of dorsal widening 

 anteriorly so as to fill the space between dorsal and lateral line, but not 

 extending around front of dorsal to connect with band on the other side. 

 Head naked; gill membranes broadly united, free from the isthmus; no 

 slit or pore behind last gill; no spines above eye or on vertex; a single 

 gently curved iireopercular spine, not forked and without cusps or i)roc- 

 esses; a large fringed supraorbital flap; small flaps and cirri on occiput, 

 sides of head, and along lateral line; teeth on jaws, vomer, and palatines; 

 dorsals continuous, notched between spinous and soft portions ; ventrals 

 I, 3, without set:e; vent far forward, immediately behind base of ventral 

 fins, the male with a long anal papilla, {dpxoi, vent; alluding to its 

 unusual iiosition. ) 



2282. AIUHISTES PLl MARIU(S. Jordan .t Gilbert. 



Head 33 in length ; depth 4.; eye 3^ in head. D. X, 23 ; A. 18 ; P. 15 or 16. 

 Anterior portion of head compressed and narrow, with vertical sides, the 

 width at angle of mouth little greater than diameter of orbit. Frcnu the 

 ocular region the head widens rapidly backward and downward to pre- 

 opercular spine, leaving the occiput narrow; greatest width of head and 

 body near preopercular spine, slightly less than depth of head at occiput; 



