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VOL. XXVII. 



17. PODOTHECUS THOMPSONI Jordan and Gilbert. 



Podothecuit thompsoiii Jokdax and Gilbert, Rept. Fur Seal Invest., Ill, 1896, 

 p. 473, pi. Lxxii; off Shana Bay, Iturup Island, at Albatross station 3653, in 

 18 fathoms (tyi^e No. 5667, L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus., Coll. Albatross). — JoRrtAX 

 and EvERMANN, Fisli. North and Middle Amer., II, 1898, p. 2060; Iturup 

 Island. — Schmidt, Faune 3Ier Japon, 1903, jx 16; Japan Sea, Ochotsk Sea. 



Shana Bay, Iturup Island, Kuril "roup. Recorded by Dr. Peter J. 

 Schmidt, oti' Cape Pestschnizoff, Korea, in lit. 19»»3. 



Fl(i. n.— PdDOTHErrS THOMPSONI. 



(This species is named in honor of D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, 

 of the UniA'ersity at Dundee, commissioner of Great Britain in the fur- 

 seal investigations in Bering Sea in 1(S96 and 1897.) 



18. PODOTHECUS VETERNUS Jordan and Starks. 



PodothecKs vetenius Jordan and Stares, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., 1895, p. 819, pi. 

 Lxxxix; Robben Island (Coll. Captain Blair. Type presented by Alaska 

 Commercial Company to L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus., No. 4823). — Jordan and 

 EvERMANN, Fish. North and Middle Amer., II, 1898, p. 2063, same type. 



A single specimen, about 8 inches in length, collected b}' Captain 

 Blair at Robben Island. This species is related to P. aclj)ensermus 



Flli. 12. — PODOTHECUS VETERXrS. 



and P. gilhertl^ differing from the former in having fewer and shorter 

 barbels, teeth on jaws obsolete, keel and preopercle larger, dorsal 

 ridges without spines posteriorly, and the spines on the preorbital 

 ridge different in shape; from the latter in having the body different 

 in shape, not everywhere deeper than wide, but the reverse posteri- 

 orly; anal much shorter and lower, no teeth on jaws, and the spines 

 on preorbital ridge better developed and different in shape, 



{veternvs. an old man, veteran, in alhision to the want of teeth.) 



