Jordan and Evermann.— Fishes of North America. 



1921 



tinned forward oa top of head, meeting its fellow m a V-shaped patch 

 filling posterior portion of interorbital space ; similar plates on snont and 

 opercle the head and body otherwise naked. In cross section the plates 

 Trk an abrupt angle, the back being flat, the sides vertical. Dorsa 

 Tpines slender the 2 flns well separated; rays of solt dorsal and ana 

 .ery slender, rather long; caudal truncate or rounded f head; pectorals 

 witl 18 or 19 rays, reaching to or nearly to vent; anal papilla very long 

 iu males, more than \ head. Color light olivaceous, with a series oi 

 elongate, narrow, brown streaks along middle of sides, the latter also 

 finely punctate with black; a dark streak in front of eye; fins trans- 

 lucent the dorsals, pectorals, and caudal with some back spotting, which 

 shows a tendc-ncy to form bars; anal and ventrals white. Length o to 6 

 inches CoMsts of Oregon and Washington, the types from depths of from 

 43 to 77 futboms. Also found in Puget Sound by Mr. Starks. (Gilbert.) 

 (a82>e>-, rough; a^w^Hm, ^ diminutive from Asi^ro, a genus of Percida^) 

 Hadulinui aZrellm, Gilbert, Proc. IJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1890. 88, off Oregon and Washing- 



tir^t Zatross Stations 3046, 3057, 3058, 3059 (Type, No. 43096) ; JouDAN & Stakks. 



Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1895, 805, pi. 81. 



719. STELGISTRUM, Jordan & Gilbert, new genus. 



Stagismnn, Jordan ^- Gilbert, Fishes of Bering Sea, in Fur Seal Invest, for 1896, 1897 

 MS. (««ejMC(7en). 

 Shaped as in Hemilcpidotus, which it resembles in appearance bnt with 

 which it is not closely related. Gill membranes widely joined across the 

 throat, wholly free from the isthmus. Teeth on jaws and vomer none on 

 palatines. No slit or pore behind last gill. Upper preopercular spine 

 simple, gently upcurved, 3 short spines below it. No opercular rib or 

 spine. Nasal spines short and strong. Vertex without spmes or ridges 

 aud without long tentacles. Spinous dorsal without anterior notch the 

 vertical fins all few-rayed. A series of plates along lateral line and a barid 

 •ilono- the back which merges anteriorly into the mass of mmnte plates 

 covering top and sides of head. Ventrals I, 3, without set*. Vent im- 

 mediately before origin of anal. {drsXr'^rpov, scraper.) 



2299. STELGISTUrM STEJXEGERI, Jordan & Gilbert. 

 Head 2J in length; depth 3.^. D. IX. 17; A. 13; P. 16; caudal with 

 9 divided rays; lateral line with 40 plates; lower series of dorsal band 

 containing 35 to 38 plates. Head narrowly wedge-shaped, tapering 

 upward; width below eyes equaling length of snout and i eye; width 

 at preopercles equaling depth at occiput. Mouth large, slightly oblique 

 the wide maxillary reaching vertical behind pupil, equaling^ length of 

 snont and eye, i length of head. Teeth small, uniform, in narrow 

 bands on iaws and vomer; palatines toothless. A deep naked trans- 

 yerse groove between nasal spines and front of orbits; orbital rims 

 moderately elevated, the interorbital space very narrow, channeled; 

 occiput flat or slightly concave, angulated along lines running backward 

 from orbits, but without spines or ridges; a slender filament above each 



