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cross bars; terminal half of pectorals finely cross-barred, the proximal 

 half plain, with a large dusky blotch on extreme base; anal ver}^ 

 faintly barred; ventrals unmarked. Sea, off Robben Island; one 

 specimen 52 mm. long, dredged in 10 fathoms. — (Jordan and Gilbert.) 



A second specimen sent us from Aniva Bay, Sakhalin, was collected 

 by Dr. Peter Schmidt of the Museum of St. Petersburg, 



(Named for Dr. Leonhard Stejneger, curator of reptiles and 

 batracheans in the U. S. National Museum.) 



9. TRIGLOPS Reiiihardt. 



Triglops Reinhardt, Yid. Selsk. Natur. Math. At'li., V, 1832, p. h'2, {jnngeli). 



Body rather elongate, the tail very slender. Head small and com- 

 pressed. Mouth moderate; villiform teeth on jaws and vomer, none 

 on the palatines; preopercular spines 4, small, simple; head prickly, 

 but without scales; a row of enlarged plate-like scales along the lat- 

 eral line; a similar row above it at the base of the dorsal fin; the space 

 between these densely prickly; lower half of bod}- crossed at short 

 intervals by transverse undulating folds of skin, the edge of the fold 

 with minute rough scales, causing it to appear sharply and finel}' ser- 

 rate, these cross folds being really formed ]>y ])ranches of the lateral 

 line. Gill membranes united, free from the isthmus; a distinct slit 

 behind last gill. Dorsal spines rather high and slender; ventrals I, 3. 

 Arctic seas. 



{trigla; oji/\ appearance; the transverse folds resembling the lateral 

 plates of Trif/k(.) 



g. TRIGLOPS BEANI Gilbert. 



Triglops pingeliBEA's , Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1883, p. 355, not of Reinhardt; 

 Plover Bay, Siberia. 



Triglops heard Gilbert, Rept. U. S. Fish Comm., 1893 (1896), p. 428, pi. xxviii, 

 fig. 2; Aleutian Islands, Bristol Bay, at Albatross stations 3214, 3217, and 

 many others, in 7h to 42 fathoms. — Jordan and Gilbert, Rept. U. S. Fur 

 Seal Coram., Ill, 1898, p. 455; St. Paul I., Robben I., Karluk. 



Head 3f to 3f ; depth 6; snout longer than eye, 3} to 3^ in head; 

 eye 3i to 3|; D. X or XI-23 to 26; A. 24 to 2(3; 0. 12; P. 18; V. I, 

 3; lateral line iS to 50; branchiostegals 6. Body heavy at shoulders, 

 tapering rapidly to slender caudal peduncle; depth of caudal peduncle 

 one-fourth its length from base of last dorsal ray; greatest width of 

 head slightly less than its depth, its lower pro file, straight, the upper 

 descending in a gentle, even curve; mouth nearly horizontal, the max- 

 illary almost reaching vertical from middle of eye, 2|^ to 2i in head; 

 villiform teeth on jaws and vomer, none on palatines; supraorbital rim 

 slightly elevated, a groove- like depression behind it; interorbital space 

 rather wide, forming a shallow groove, its width 3^ to 5 in diameter 

 of orbit; occipital ridges obsolete, a faint trace of them sometimes 

 present, never ending in a spine; opercle with 4 spinous points, the 



