102. (a) LATILID.E. 6 *2 3 
the inner rays longest. Skeleton well ossified. Pyloric ccsca few (2 or 
3). Xo anal papilla. North Pacific. deep; /lacrrjp, a searcher.) 
O'?!. Bo sagaitituBS Cope. — Iioiiquil. 
Olivaceous, tinged with brown; about S round, faint bluish blotches 
aloug the sides, each surrounded by rings of yellow spots; a yellow 
ring around the eye and a yellow band along the cheek; fins translu- 
cent, the anal with a yellowish stripe and a bluish edging; dorsal red- 
dish or yellow, with a dusky blotch in front; veiitrals dusky; larger 
specimens nearly imitormly dark. Eye large, about as long as snout, 
4 in head; its diameter much more than iuterocular space; maxillary 
extending to below front of pupil; cheeks closely scaly; rest of head 
entirely naked; a narrow, naked area in front of dorsal, bounded by 
rows of mucous pores; skull with large mucous cavities behind the 
eyes, which are translucent in life; scales of lateral line enlarged, twice 
as far apart as the others. Dorsal fin inserted at a distance behind 
the occiput, less than the diameter of the eye; pectorals | the length 
of the head; fourth ray of ventrals longest; vent much nearer snout 
than root of caudal; caudal vertebrm about 33. Head 4^; depth G§. 
D. 41; A. 33; V. I, 5; P. IS; Lat. 1. 02 + G (tubes); scales in about 200 
transverse series. L. 12 inches. Alaska to Puget Sound, about rocks, 
iu water of moderate depth. 
(Cope, Proc. Amcr. Phil. Soc. Phila. 1873.) 
Family CII («) — LATILID^.* 
{The BlanqidUos.) 
Body more or less elongate, fusiform or compressed. Head subcon- 
ical, the luofile usually convex; suborbital without bony stay; cranial 
bones not cavernous; opercular bones armed or not. Mouth moderate, 
terminal, usually little oblique; teeth rather strong; premaxillary usu- 
ally with a posterior canine; premaxillaries protractile; maxillary wirh- 
out supiilemental bone, not slipping under the edge of the preorbital. 
Gills 4, a long slit behind the fourth. Pseudobranchiue well developed. 
Gill-membranes separate, or more or less united, often adherent to the 
isthmus. Lower pharyngeals separate. Scales small, ctenoid. Lateral 
line present, complete. Dorsal fin long and low, usually contiuuoiis, the 
spinous jiortion always much less developed than the soft portion, but 
never obsolete; anal fin very long, its spines usually feeble and few; 
^Called Tracldnidw iu the key ou page 78; see also family 102 (ft), Trichodontida;. 
