780 CONTKIBUTIONS TO NOETH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
back; a third along base of anal. Width of head equal to greatest 
depth of body; iuterorbital area equal to snout, or oiie-third length of 
uiandible; maxillary reaching a little behind eye, its length 3 in dis- 
tance from snout to front of dorsal; eye 2 in snout, 11 in head. Be- 
ginning at a short distance behind origin of dorsal, small, oblong, 
cycloid scales, closely imbricated, cover a strip of the body along the 
lateral line; the scaled area gradually widens backward until, behind 
the vent, only a very narrow strip along bases of dorsal and anal is 
naked. Dorsal beginning over upper angle of gill-opening; first spine 
half as long as the seventy-first or longest; caudal 11 in length; pec- 
toral 3 in head. Head G; depth 10. D. LXXVI; A. II, 40; P. 13; 
coeca C. L. 30 inches. Coasts of British Columbia and Alaska. {Bean.) 
(Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882 ) 
422.— CRYPTACAIVTIIODES Stofer. 
Wrif-mouths. 
(Storer, Rept. Fish. Mass. 1839, 28: type Cryptacanthodes maculatus Storer.) 
Body very long and slender, comxiressed, naked ; lateral line obso- 
lete; head oblong, cuboid, with vertical cheeks; consiiicuoiis uincifer- 
ous channels in mandible and preopercle; head flattish above, with 
deep rounded pits between and behind eyes; month large, very ob- 
lique; lower jaw very heavy, its tip projecting; premaxillary not pro- 
tractile; jaws with rather sharp, conical teeth; larger teeth on the 
vomer and palatines; most of the teeth in single series. Gill-mem- 
branes joined to the isthmus; the gill-openings prolonged forwards 
below; pyloric coeca 5. Dorsal fin long, composed entirely of spines, 
which are rather strong, but enveloped in the skin; dorsal and anal 
joined to the caudal ; no ventral fins ; pectorals short. Size rather 
large; one species kuomi. {zpu-zbq, hidden; a/.avOudrjc;^ spiued.) 
1£94. C. iSBacaiSatBlS Storer. — Wry-mouth ; Ghost-fish. 
Light brownish, with several series of smallish dark spots, arranged 
in more or less regular rows, from the head to the base of the caudal; 
vertical fins closely spotted with darker; head above thickly speckled; 
body sometimes {^Hnornatus^’) entirely immaculate. Eyes small, placed 
high, not so wide as the iuterorbital space, which has 2 ridges and 3 
pits ; orbital rim raised ; 2 deep pits behind eye at the temples ; a 
deeper pit on the top of head between them; a raised ridge con- 
tinued backward on each side of head behind orbital rim ; maxillary 
extending to beyond eye; jiseudobranchise small; pectorals short, 3 in 
