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wide; upper 2 spines directed backward, the 3 lower downward and 

 backward; opercular spines strong, flat, often bifid ortritid; spines on 

 adjacent angles of subopercle and interopercle sometimes bifid ; behind 

 these on margin of subopercle a few short spinous points. Gill rakers 

 very long and slender, 11 + 29 in number, the anterior 1 or 2 of lower 

 arch tubercular, the longest (22 mm.) more than two-thirds diameter 

 of orbit. Mandible very heavy, the symphysis not produced, the 2 

 jaws subequal. Vomerine and palatine patches of teeth extremely 

 narrow. Fins high, the third to seventh dorsal spines subequal; caudal 

 very slightly emarginate; anal spines graduated; pectorals scarcely 

 reaching vertical from vent, the lower 9 simple, the 10 upper forked; 

 ventral not reaching vent, two-thirds length of head. Caudal scaled 

 to tip on membranes and rays; soft dorsal and anal with narrow bands 

 of scales following the rays to or nearly to their tips, the membranes 

 of the first 3 or 4 rays in each fin wholly scaled on basal third; spinous 

 dorsal naked; pectorals scaled on basal half; ventrals naked; head, the 

 maxillary and mandible, the branchiostegal raN's, the anterior and 

 upper half of interopercle, and all of preorbital except a minute area 

 along its posterior margin, naked. The body is covered with small 

 Aveakly ctenoid scales, largely covered over by the extraordinarily 

 developed accessory scales; scales on breast; belly, and prepectoral 

 area smooth. The naked skin covering bones of head is minutely 

 wrinkled or papillose. Color in spirits, light brownish on body and 

 fins, with darker shades on lips, gill membranes, opercles, and top of 

 head; it may have been reddish in life; mouth and gill cavity white; 

 peritoneum jet-black. Here described, after Jordan and Gilbert, from 

 one specimen 49 cm. long, from Bering Island. The identification is 

 made with some doubt, owing to lack of any detailed description of the 

 type, a dried specimen from Yezo, and to some minor discrepancies 

 between the two. Our specimen has 56 (not 49) tubes in the lateral 

 line, the nasal spine is small but not properl}" to be called rudimentary, 

 the dorsal notch seems somewhat deeper, and the second anal spine 

 somewhat shorter. North Pacific; two specimens known, the one from 

 Hokkaido, in the museum of Berlin, the other from Bering Island, in 

 the United States National Museum. 

 {yXavKOs, hoary blue.) 



3. SEBASTODES TACZANOWSKII (Steindachner). 



Sehastodes taczanowskii Steindachner, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 1880, p. 256, pi. 

 II, fig. 1 (dorsal XIV, 13); Bays of the Gulf of Strielok, near Vladivostok, 

 Japan Sea. — Jordan and Gilbert, Kept. U. S. Fur Seal Comui., Ill, 1898; 

 Shana Bay, Iturup Island. — Jordan and Evermann, Fishes N. M. Amer., II, 

 1898, p. 1831; after Steindachner and Jordan and Gilbert. 



Head 2f in length; depth 3. Dorsal XIII, 13; anal III, T. Tubes 

 of lateral line 45. Body not much elevated. Mouth moderate; maxil- 

 lary nearly reaching vertical from posterior edge of pupil, 2^ in head. 



