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of second portion of dorsal, running up on fin and spreading out, 

 occupying greater portion of second part of dorsal, below it runs 

 down to behind pectoral base; a spot under front of soft dorsal run- 

 ning down to lateral line where it is widely forked; the forks slender 

 and running to lower part of sides; the next bar under middle of soft 

 dorsal, running up on tin, the next under last part of soft dorsal, 

 widely forked below, the posterior fork running across caudal 

 peduncle and meeting its fellow of the opposite side below; the light 

 interspaces continued on spines to their tips, on soft raj^s on basal 

 third or fourth; a black bar across base of caudal followed b}" a wider 

 white bar; a slightly narrower black bar just behind middle of caudal, 

 then a very narrow white bar, then a very narrow dark ))ar, and the 

 tips of the ravs white; anal crossed obliquely by 2 or 3 dusky bars; 

 pectoral dusky; tips of rays lighter and a lighter bar across middle of 

 rays; ventrals white. 



The following note was taken from this. specimen when it was fresh: 



Clear light olive green; mottled with white and dusky, becoming abruptly pink- 

 ish white below; bars dusky olive above, dusky red below; greenish below eye; 

 lower side of head pearly; fins all faintly washed with pinkish red; the pectoral 

 pink, whitish and l:>lackish; ventral plain white, very faintly shaded. 



The al)ove description is from the type, a female. A cotype, a 

 male, shows the following differences: First dorsal spine '2\ in head; 

 the third 3^V; ventrals very long, reaching past tip of pectoral to 

 fifth or sixth anal ray. The interspaces between bars are white and 

 the bars are darker; the head is white except at dark spots as described 

 for the female; the ventrals regularly and conspicuously spotted with 

 black on the raj's, each ray with 9 or 10 black spots equal in size to 

 the interspaces; a very few scattered dusky spots on bellv; the dusk}' 

 on pectoral broken up into 4 or 5 inconspicuous bars across raj^s. 



The following note was taken from this specimen when fresh: 



Light translucent olive tinged with violet; head tinged with purplish; lips with 

 yellowish; black spot below eye with golden green spots around it; lower side of 

 head pink; bars on side reddish brown; dorsal mottled, orange, black, and whitish; 

 caudal flesh color barred with dark red; pectoral scarlet orange and whitish; ven- 

 trals yellow, spotted with black. 



This species differs from Ilemilepidotus jordani chiefly in having a 

 larger eye (which is much longer than snout), a blunter snout, and in 

 being smoother on sides of head and somewhat differentl}^ colored. 



The type is a female from Hakodate, 235 mm. in length, and is 

 numbered 7446, Ichthyological Collections, Leland Stanford Junior 

 University Museum. A cotype is No. 50916, U.S.N.M. The speci- 

 men from the Kuriles, mentioned l)y Pallas, apparently belongs to 

 this species, which is readily distinguished from the two species found 

 in Bering Sea, Ilemileptdotus hem'depidotus and II. jordani., ])y the 

 immaculate belly, greater number of dorsal raj's, and large eye. 



(Named for Charles Henry Gilbert.) 



