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of 7 or 8 pores above the gill-opening-. Upper part of head with cirri 

 and tentacles; a long, slender, median tentacle on snout, two pairs of 

 branched ones on the interorbital space, the anterior ones united at 

 their bases, the posterior pair widely separated, as high as, or higher 

 than the others; occiput and nape with very slender . long cirri; sides 

 of head naked; chin with a pair of small ])arbels. 



Dorsal inserted above gill-opening, not united to base of caudal, the 

 lirst three or four spines with small, terminal tentacles; height of 

 spines near middle of fin 2i in head. Anal inserted below base of 

 seventeenth dorsal spine, not connected with base of caudal, the mem- 

 brane incised between tips of rays: height of rays near middle of fin 

 3 in head. Caudal acutely rounded, li in head. Pectoral 1} in head. 

 Ventrals ?. in head. 



Fig. 3.— Bryolophus 



Color in spirits, yellowish white; the body with about 14 indistinct 

 vertical brownish Itands, the upper parts of which are darker, appear- 

 ing as a series of l)lotches below base of dorsal; a faint, brownish 

 band extending downward from eye; tentacles and cirri brownish; 

 dorsal finely mottled with brownish, a rather distinct spot above tip of 

 pectoral; caudal with narrow, irregular wavy bands; anal with a few 

 faint spots on posterior part. 



Described from the type, No. 50571, U. S. National Museum, a 

 specimen about 100 mm. long collected by the U. S. Fish Commission 

 steamer Alhatrot<s at Station 3213, near Unalaska. Two other speci- 

 mens are very similar in color. They have 62 and 63 dorsal spines 

 and 48 and 49 anal rays, respectively. These examples bear the 

 cotype No. 3049, Ichthyological collections, Stanford University. 



{Xv(}ij.i()s. restorable.) 



