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much smaller than others; three on each side at junction of operculum 

 edge and body, attached to shoulder girdle and posterior hones of 

 head, all rather small, curved posteriorly, and hooked: a similar one 

 on upper angle of operculum; dorsal surface of head slightly rough- 

 ened by small papilla'-, body smooth, without scales or bristles. 



Lateral line following line of dorsal, well above axis of body, chain- 

 like, reaching center of caudal peduncle, well developed throughout. 



First dorsal much lower than second, the latter being twice the 

 former when longesl rays are measured to tip: base of first longer 

 than height : base of second equal to its height and to body width at 

 pectorals: fays of second produced into filaments two-fifths of total 

 length, last six bifurcated; anal similar to second dorsal in insertion 



Fig. 1.— Triglopsis ontabieksis jordan and Thompson. 



and length, hut rays much less produced as filaments; pectorals very 

 broad at base, long, their insertion less oblique than in Triglopsis 

 thompsoni, tip extending considerably beyond insertion of second 

 dorsal and vent, which is beneath last of firsl dorsal; ventrals long, 

 reaching to anus, hut not as long as pectorals. Vent slightly nearer 

 caudal base than t ip of snout. 



Color in spirits a darker yellowish ground with mottled dark above, 

 forming 1 or 5 indistinct stripes across body; below colorless; dorsal, 

 pectoral, and caudal (ins with indistinct cross hands on light hack- 

 ground, tips clear, centrals and anals clear save for light stippling on 

 anal. 



'he skeleton of ihe bead is ver\ soft and cavernous 



