NO. 1365. 



rilE AGOMD.E OF JArAX—JOliDAX AM) .STARK.S. 



585 



Kamchatka and Kuril Islands. 



The species is fully described l>y Mr. Cramer in Jordan and Kver- 

 mann's Fishes of North and Middle Amei-ica. to which the reader is 

 referred. 



[dooSsKa, twelve: fSpa, sui'face. side.) 



7. OCCA IBURIA Jordan and Starks, new species. 



Head 4i in length to l)ase of caudal; depth 7^. Dor.sal XII s or 

 It; anal 10; lateral line plates from upper end of gill opening 43. 

 Eye 5| in head; snout 4^; interorbital space 4^: maxillary 2|. 



Body to posterior third of caudal peduncle depressed. Spines 

 present on all dorso-lateral plates and median dorsal plates of caudal 

 peduncle; the latter very small, but evident. Spines on all inferior 

 lateral series of plates behind tip of pectoral, and on all superior 

 lateral series. Spines on ventro-lateral series from tips of ventral to 

 end of anal; the anterior spines rather blunt; all of them smaller than 



Fig. 6.— Occa ibt'ria. 



in the other series. Posterior to the middle of the pectoral the lateral 

 line plates are small, not nearly so large as those of th(> adjoining- 

 series; they bear small spines, which are enlarged anteriorly, back to 

 opposite the middle of the soft dorsal. Tliere are thirteen plates 

 between the base of the last dorsal ray and the caudal fin; foui* or five 

 of these are single plates, eight or nine are paired; the mend)rane of 

 the last dorsal ra}'^ covers a little .over three plates. Between the base 

 of the last anal ray and the caudal ai'c eleven ])lates. two of which are 

 single median plates. A strong ridge of blunt plates runs from the 

 lower pectoral rav to the gill opening, where it meets a ridge l)order- 

 ing the gill opening from the upper pectoral ray to the istiuiuis. 

 Breast, the region covered by the pectoi'als and a portion about amis 

 are rough with small tubeivles. A triangular area on branchiostegal 

 membran<^ and a Y-shaped area at chin betwiMMi mandibles are I'ough 

 with prickles. 



Lower jaw strongly projecting. Teeth, tine, villiform. in nai-row 

 bands on jaws, vomer, and palatines. Maxillary reaching to t)elow 



