Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America. 1901 



body compressed, everywhere mneli deeper than wide. Mouth slightly 

 oblique, maxillary reaching slightly beyond vertical from front of pnpil, 

 3i in head. Jaws and vomer with rather wide bands of uniform fine teeth ; 

 a small patch on front of palatines ; nasal spines strong, iixed ; preoper- 

 cular spine strong, simple, directed upward and l>ackward, gently curved; 

 preocnlar margin without further spines or prominences. Opercle thin, 

 without rib or spine; supraocular rim elevated, projecting above profile 

 of head; interorl)ital space narrow, deeply channeled, the sides sloping- 

 con vexly; occiput depressed behind the eyes and transversely rounded, 

 rendering the profile somewhat concave; posteriorly the occiput rises and 

 is literally angulated, somewhat quadrate therefore in cross section; vertex 

 without ridges or spines ; supraocular flap as long as eye, lanceolate in form, 

 coarsely fringed along the margins; a pair of broad, deeply cleft flaps near 

 middle of occiput, and a second pair at posterior edge of occiput; a long 

 nasal cirrus, a series of short filaments along margin of preopercle, 1 on snl)- 

 orbital stay, 1 near tip of maxillary, a cleft filament near operciilar angle, 

 and a series of 4 filaments along middle of lateral line ; anterior nostrils 

 in a short tube; gill membranes widely joined across the throat, entirely 

 fi-ee from isthmus. Lateral line rising in a high convex curve anteriorly, 

 the curved and straight portions equal; along its course is a series of 44 

 plates, with the upper edge free and spinous, large along the curA-ed por- 

 tion of the line, bTit diminishing rapidly in size posteriorly, the free edge 

 Itecoming smooth or nearly so; a series of much smaller but similar plates 

 lies along base of dorsal, extending halfway along back of caudal peduncle, 

 widening under anterior half of spinous dorsal to form a band which nearly 

 fills the space between dorsal and lateral line ; skin otherwise entirely 

 naked. Dorsal beginning a pupil's diameter behind occiput. Spines very 

 slender, the anterior ones highest, each crowned with a membranaceous flap 

 which is digitately cleft ; the third spine longest, \ length of head ; the last 

 spine about f the third and \ the succeeding short ray ; pectoral rays all 

 simple, the lower thickened with incised membranes, the longest rays 

 reaching vertical from third anal ray; ventrals narrow, reaching front of 

 anal when declined; vent immediately behind ventral fins, the long anal 

 papilla reaching front of anal fin when declined. Color in spirits, light 

 grayish olive, a series of 5 irregular quadrate blotches along the back, 

 usiuxlly connected at their lower margins; middle of sides with dusky 

 marblings, from the lower edge of which a series of 7 V-shaped black 

 blotches descend toward lower outline ; the dusky marking of sides inclos- 

 ing small round spots of ground color ; an ol)li(iue dark bar on snout and 

 a black blotch on lower portions of cheek; interopercle and iipjjer 

 brancbiostegals with cross series of black sjiots; pectoral with a large 

 dark blotch and indistinct cross l)ars on the rays; anal crossed by oblique 

 dark bars; caudal indistinctly cross-liarred ; dorsals dusky, without defi- 

 nite pattern; ventrals plain. Length 3 inches. Ushishir Island, of the 

 Kuril Group; only the type known, {plumarius, feathery.) 



Arehistes phnnarius, Jordan & Gu^eht, Fishes of Bering Sea, in Rept. Fnr Seal Invest. 

 1896, 1897 MS., Ushishir Island. (Typo, in U. S. Nat. Miis. Coll. Jordan ) 



