598 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxvii. 



This species, otherwise known from north and south of the Alaskan 

 peninsula, is recorded off Cape Pestschnuzoff', Korea, b}- Peter Schmidt. 

 It is described in the work of Jordan and Evermann. 



iXenTog.^ slender; p^'K/f^S", snout.) 



11. ASPIDOPHOROIDES Lacepede. 



Aspidophoroides Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 1802, p. 228 {tranquehar-monop- 



terygius). 

 Ccnithirhynais Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fishes, etc., II, 1839, p. 272 {monopterygim). 



Bod}^ and head very slender; head 4 to 6, width 5 to 8 in length of 

 body; 8 longitudinal rows of plates, the lateral line in upper lateral 

 row; about 40 plates in the dorsal series. Terminal rostral plate 

 present, unarmed; snout with hooked spines directed upward; mouth 

 terminal; teeth on jaws, vomer, and palatines. Supraocular and occip- 

 ital spines absent; plates of body more or less keeled, without spines. 

 First dorsal absent; second dorsal and anal small, opposite each other, 

 each with 4 to 7 rays. Gill membranes united, narrowly joined to 

 isthmus anteriorly, free behind. 



{pcGTiU^ shield; ^opeoo^ to bear; (Mog^ form.) 



21. ASPIDOPHOROIDES BARTONI Gilbert. 



Aspidophoroides hartoni Gilbert, Eept. U. S. Fish Comm., 1893 (1896), p. 434; 

 Aleutian Islands, Bristol Bay, Alaska (Coll. Albatross).— J ov.bais! and Ever- 

 mann, Fish. North and Middle Amer., II, 1898, p. 2092; Aleutian Islands, 

 Bristol Bay, Pribilof Islands. — Jordan and Gilbert, Kept. U. S. Fur Seal 

 Comm., Ill, 1898, p. 475; Pribilof Islands, Unalaska, Medni Island. 



Aleutian Islands; taken very abundantly both north and south of the 

 Aleutian Islands and in Bristol Bay, at depths of 17 to 121 fathoms. 

 Also found about the Pribilof Islands. A specimen from Kayabe 

 Island off' Hokkaido is in the Imperial Museum of Tokj^o. 



(Named for Mr. Barton A. Bean.) 



12. ANOPLAGONUS Gill. 

 Anoplagonus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1861, p. 259 [inermis). 

 This genus differs from Aspidophoroides in the absence of nasal 

 spines. 



(avoTrXog^ unarmed; Agomfs.) 



22. ANOPLAGONUS INERMIS Giinther. 



Aspidophoroides inermis Gunther, Cat., II, 1860, p. 524; Vancouver Island. — 

 LtJTKEN, Ulkefiske, Vidensk. Meddel. Naturhist. Foren. Kjob., 1876, p. 385. — 

 Jordan and Gilbert, Synopsis, 1883, p. 725.— Jordan, Cat. Fishes N. A., 

 1885, p. 113. — Jordan and Evermann, Fish. North and Middle Amer., II, 

 1898, p. 2093; Vancouver Island, Bristol Bay, Aleutian Islands. — Schmidt, 

 Faune Mer Japon, 1903, p. 16; Japan Sea. 



Anoplagonus inermis Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., XIII, 1861, p. 167. 



