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Color, brownish, throat and chin light yellowish; dorsal and anal 

 dark toward the edge, the anal rays tipped with whitish; an indistinct, 

 dark spot on posterior end of dorsal, extending downward on the body; 

 caudal with 3 indistinct, vertical, dark bands; pectoral narrowly edged 

 with soiled white. 



Described from a specimen about 240 nmi. long from Petropaulski 

 Harbor, Alaska. Not seen by us in Japan though recorded b}^ Her- 

 zenstein from Hakodate. The species is abundant on the west side of 

 Bering Sea. The specimens from Alaska referred to this species belong- 

 to others as yet undescribed. 



{ttoXvz^ many; ockxiz^ ray; KedaXi'}^ head.) 



15. BRYOSTEMMA OTOHIME Jordan and Snyder, new species. 



Head 5| in length; depth 5|; depth of caudal peduncle 3 in head; 

 eye 3i; intcrorbital space 6^; snout 31; D. 61; A. I, 45; P. 15. 



Bod}^ deep, generally compressed, lower jaw projecting slightly 

 beyond the upper; maxillary extending to a point below posterior part 

 of pupil; teeth of jaws in 2 rows anteriorly, in a single row on poste- 



. 1:^.— BliYuSTEMilA OTOHIME. 



rior part of jaws, arranged alternateh", the points aligned to form a 

 single cutting edge; no teeth on vomer and palatines; tongue brotid 

 and rounded; gill-meni))ranes forming a fold across the isthmus; 

 pseudobranchia? large, the filaments as long as those of the gills; a row 

 of cirri resembling gillrakers along their base; gillrakers on first arch 

 about 4 + 11, short, pointed; pjj^loric cffica present. 



Body covered with minute, close-set, C3"cloid scales; head naked. 

 A small, median cirrus on upper part of snout; 2 pairs on intcror- 

 bital space, the anterior of which are joined at the base, tall, slender, 

 branched; those of occiput and nape small, slender; a small pair on 

 chin, another on side of throat posterior to these; lateral line repre- 

 sented by a short row^ of pores above pectoral fin, the pores not extend- 

 ing ])ack as far as tip of fin. 



Dorsal inserted above gill-opening, connected with the base of cau- 

 dal posteriorly, formed of spines throughout, the highest or anterior 

 ones 2^ in head, tips of anterior 4 or 5 rays free, with cirri; the mem- 

 brane not incised between the rays; anal low, the rays scarcely longer 

 than diameter of eye; the membrane deeply incised between rays; 



