NO. 1300. CERTAIN BR YOSTEMMA FISHES— JORDAN AND SNYDER. 615 



interorbital space between the anterior pair of orbital tentacles is a 

 minute, blunt, papilla; posterior to this and between the second pair is 

 a somewhat larger one; behind the latter and between the third pair of 

 orbital tentacles is a pair of short, stocky tentacles; behind these are 

 two transverse rows of similar protuberances, five in the first and 

 three in the second row; the whole occiput and nape, the sides of the 

 head, the cheeks, and suborbital area covered with pointed, fleshy 

 villi; a small barbel on posterior end of maxillary; a pair of branched 

 tentacles on chin followed by a similar one on posterior half of jaw; a 

 prominent barbel on suborl)ital area. Nostrils with slender, pointed 

 tubes. 



Dorsal inserted above the o-iU-opening, the membrane not scalloped 

 1)etween the spines, scarcely connected with the caudal posteriorly; 

 two or three anterior spines probably with small terminal tentacles 

 (the fin being slightly injured, the character of the first spines can not 

 be exactly determined, l)ut if tentacles are present they do not extend 

 beyond the third spine); height of spines near middle of fin 21 in head. 

 Anal inserted below base of fourteenth dorsal spine, the mem])rane 

 inci.sed lietween the rays, not joined to the caudal, height of ra3^s near 

 middle of fin. .3 in head. Caudal rounded, li in head. Pectoral li in 

 head. Ventrals 3 in head. 



Color in spirits, light j^ellowish brown, with irregular whitish spots 

 along the sides; a row of K) indistinct, hi-owiiish bai's along back 

 between nape and tail; side of head witli 2 or 3 indistinct vertical 

 bars: edge of dorsal with small, widely spaced, brown .spots; anal with 

 about 13 large spots; caudal and pectoral with irregular, vertical bars. 



Known from onlj" one specimen 115 mm. long, taken by the U. S. 

 Fish Commission steamer Albatross at Station 3213, near Unalaska, 

 Alaska. Type 50570, U. S. National Museum, 



The species maj" be distinguished at once among others of the genus 

 by having the sides of the head covered with a dense mat of barbels. 



[TapffcoSyz, matted.) 



BRYOSTEMMA DECORATUM Jordan and Snyder, new species. 



Cliirolophus polyavtweph(duii Beax in Neli^on, Report Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, 



1887, p. 305, pi. XV, iig. 2. 

 Bryostemma polyactocephalum Jordan and Starks, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1895, 



p. 841 (in part). — Jordan and Evermann, Fish. North and Middle Amer., 



Ill, p. 2408 (in part), fig. 828; the specimen from Neah Bay represents this 



species. 



Head 6f in length; depth 6;t; depth of caudal peduncle 3| in head; 

 eye 4|; interorbital space i>; snout 41; dorsal LXIl; anal 1, -H. 



Bodv elongate, greatly compressed; head small, the snout blunt. 

 Jaws about equal, the lower projecting slightly. Maxillary extending 

 to vertical through center of pupil. Teeth of jaws placed alternately 

 in two very closely apposed series, the points aligned to form a single 



