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g. BRACHYOPSIS SEGALIENSIS (Tilesius). 



Syngnathiis xegidiensis Tilesius, Mem. Soc. Imp. Nat. de Moscow, II, 1810, p. 216, 



pi. xiv; Bay of Patience, Sakhalin. (Coll. Krusenstern. ) 

 Siphaqonus mjalioids Steindachner, Ichth. Beitrage, V, p. 140, and Sitzb. der 

 k. Acad, der Wiss., LXXIV, 1876. — Jordax and Gilbert, Synopsis, 1883, 

 p. 723. 

 Agonus Imigatus Tilesius, Mem. Acad. Petersb., IV, 1810, p. 436; Sakhalin; 



CuviERand Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 1829, p. 214. 

 Phalang isles Icevigatus FAhLAS, Zoog. Rosso-Asiat., Ill, 1811, p. 116. 

 Brachyopsis segaliensis Jordan and Evermann, Fish. North and Middle Amer., 

 li, 1898, p. 2048 (copied). 

 This species from the island of Sakhalin is unknown to recent 

 writers. A brief description is given by Cuvier and Valenciennes, 

 condensed b}- Jordan and Evermann in the work above cited. 

 (Name from Sakhalin.) 



7. PALLASINA Cramer. 

 Palldsina Cramer, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., 1895, p. 815 {barbata). 



Form of SyngnatJms; body slender, depressed; 4-hedral anteriorly, 

 8-hedral under dorsals; 6-hedral on peduncle; snout produced in a 

 tube; lower jaw projecting beyond upper, turned upward at tip, a 

 long barbel at the symphysis; teeth on jaws and vomer, a single row 

 on palatines; gill membranes free from isthmus, united; both dorsals 

 present; ventrals very short; plates of body slightly keeled, without 

 spines; vertebrae about 45. 



(Named for Petrus Simon Pallas, naturalist and explorer, the accom- 

 plished author of Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, 1811.) 



lo. PALLASINA BARBATA (Steindachner). 



Siphagonvs barbatns Steindachner, Ichth. Beitrage, V, p. 140, pi. v; Sitzb. der 

 k. Acad, der Wiss., LXXIV, July, 1876; Japan. — Jordan and Gilbert, 

 Synopsis, 1883, p. 725.— Jordan, Cat., 1885, p. 113.— Schmidt, Fauna mer 

 Japon., 1903, p. 16; Aniva Bay, Vladivostok. 



Pallasina barbata Cramer, in Jordan and Evermann, Fish. North and Middle 

 Amer., II, 1898, p. 2049; Bristol Bay, Bering Strait, Tareinsky Bay, Port 

 Clarence.— Jordan and Gilbert, Rept. U. S. Fur Seal Comm., Ill, 1898, p. 

 471; Iturup Island, Yakutat. 



Head, 4 to 4i in length. Dorsal V to VIl-7 or 8; anal, 9 to 11. 

 Lateral line, 46 to 51. Bod}^ slightly depressed in front, depth at base 

 of pectorals tive-sixths or six-sevenths of width, slender, width about 

 12 in length. Ridges of the dorso and ventro lateral series strong, the 

 dorsal and lateral halves of the plates form a right angle; no ridge on 

 the inferior lateral row and the plates of the superior lateral row absent 

 anteriorly, so that the body is 4-hedral in front of lirst dorsal, with 

 dorsal and ventral faces flat or a little concave and the lateral conv^ex. 

 Under tirst dorsal the superior lateral series begins with keeled plates, 

 the ridge of the inferior lateral series becoming more prominent, so 



