NO. 1907. XEW CYCLOGA fiTERlD FfSUEf^— GILBERT A\D BURKE. 377 



Form deeper than indicated in the figure of the type/ the snout 

 projecting much farther beyond the mouth and the barbels much 

 larger and more conspicuous. The barbels are IG in number, con- 

 stant in })osition, attached to the inferior side of the snout, the upper 

 lip and the chin. On the snout is an anterior row of two, each with a 

 small papilla-like j^rojcction at its outer base, and a ])osterior row of 

 six, following the curve of the mouth, the middle pair closely apposed. 

 The u})])er lip is produced into a deep flap, the margin of which boars 

 thi'ce barbels. Tlie chin boars a median barbel and two on each side, 

 the inner pair accompanied posteriorly by a papilla-like projection. 

 The snout and mandible contain the usual pores, which alternate 

 with the barbels. 



The pectoral fin is only shallowly notched, the lower rays becoming 

 more and more exserted, and a few of them slightly elongated to form 

 a lobe. The caudal fin is widely joined to dorsal and anal, the last 

 dorsal rays slightly shortened, forming a notch, the anal joining without 

 notch. Ventral disk of moderate size, its anterior margin immediately 

 under the vortical from back of eye, the vent close behind it. 



Color in life, translucent, with a slight reddish tint, the half-bars 

 and spots a deeper reddish brown, darker on the margins of the bars. 



Specimens were taken from the following stations: 



Fathoms. 



4812. Near Sado Islands, Sea of Japan 176 



4813. Near Sado Islands, Sea of Japan 200 



4855. Off Korea, Sea of Japan 70 



4867. Off Korea, Sea of Japan 150 



4994. Off northwest end Hokkaido 190 



5021. Off Cape Patience, Sagalin 73 



5025. Off Cape Patience, Sagalin 52 



27. PARALIPARIS ATRAMENTATUS. new species. 



Plate 48, fig. 1. 



Type.— Cut. No. 73345, U.S.N.M. A male. 70 mm. long, from 

 station 4971, off the east coast of Hondo; depth 649 fathoms. 



Measurements in hundredths of length without caudal (69 mm.): 

 Length of head 22; of snout G; of maxillaiy 9; diameter of eye 6; 

 intcrocular width 8.2; distance from tip of snout to anus 18; to front 

 of anal fin 34; to front of dorsal 19.5; greatest depth of body 15. 



Dorsal 52; anal 44; caudal 8; pectoral 20. 



Body slender, elongate. Head depressed, the crown flat, shghtly 

 raised. Snout short and deep, rising abruptly, shghtly projecting 

 beyond the mouth; lower jaw included. Nostril in a short narrow 

 tube, in front of 03^0 on level of upper margin of pupil. Mouth 

 horizontal, ])eneatli the snout; maxillaiy reaching vertical from j)os- 

 terior margin of eye. Tooth stout and blunt, not pointed, arranged 

 in narrow bands, about eight oblique rows laterally in each jaw. Gill 

 op(Miing apparently wholly above pectoral. 



! Proc. U. S. Nat. Mm., vol. 24, 1902, p. 350. 



