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VOL. XXVII. 



5. HYPSAGONUS QUADRICORNIS (Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



Axpidvphorus quadricornis Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 1829, 

 p. 221; Kamchatka. (Coll. Dr. CoUee. Type in British Museum.) 



Ilypsagonus [Clieiragonns) gradlens Herzenstein, Bull. Acad. Imp. des Sci. de 

 St. Petersb., XIII, p. 116, May 29, 1890; Kamchatka, Avatcha Bay, Port 

 Petropavlovsk. 



A gonns quadricornis (jV'S'nmB., Cat., II, 1860, p. 215. 



Hijjt.mgonus qiiadricomis Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., XIII, 1861, p. 167. — 

 Jordan and Gilbert, Synopsis, 1883, p. 722. — Gilbert, Rept. U. S. Fish 

 Comm., 1893 (1896), p. 439. — Jordan and Evermann, Fish. North and 

 Middle Amer., II, 1898, p. 2038; Aleutian Islands, Bristol Bay, Puget 

 .Sound. — Schmidt, Faune Mer Japon., 1903, p. 16 (Aniva Bay, Sakhalin), 

 Ochotsk Sea. 



This species is fully described by Mr. Cramer in Jordan and Ever- 

 mann's Fishes of North and Middle America, to which account we 

 have nothing to add, 



5. OCCA Jordan and Evermann. 

 Occa Jordan and Evermann, Fish North and Middle Amer., II, 1898, p. 2043. 



This genus differs from Brachyoj)sis in the short snout, which is not 

 tubular. From Stellerina it is separated by the large plates on the 

 breast, and by the presence of at least a few teeth on the vomer and 

 palatines. North Pacific. 



{occa^ a harrow.) 



a. No spine on suborbital stay; dorsal IX or X, 7- or 8 dodecaedron, 6. 



aa. A spine developed on suborbital stay; dorsal XII, 8 or 9 iburia, 7. 



6. OCCA DODECAEDRON (Tilesius). 



Fig. 5. — Occa dodecaedrox. 



Agonus dodecuedroii Ti-L'Esivfi, Mem. Acad. Petersb., IV, 1810, pi. xiii; Kamchatka 

 (Coll. W. T. Tilesius).— GtJNTHER, Cat., II, 1860, p. 214. 



Phalangistes loricatus Pallas, Zoog. Rosso-Asiat. , III, 1811, p. 114, pi. xix; 

 Kamchatka. 



Aspidophorus dodecaedrus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 1829, 

 p. 209. 



Brachyopsis dodecaedrus Jordan and Gilbert, Synopsis, 1883, p. 723. 



Occa dodecaedron Jordan and Evermann, Fish. North and Middle Amer., II, 

 1898, p. 2043; Bristol Bay.— Jordan and Gilbert, U. S. Fur Seal Commis- 

 sion, III, 1898, p. 479; Iturup Island. — Schmidt, Faune Mer Japon., 1903, 

 p. 16; Aniva Bay, Vladivostok. 



