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3. ARCHISTES Jordan and Gilbert. 



Arcliistex Jordan and (umjekt, Fish. I'>criiii^ Sea, in Kept. Fur Seal Invest, for 

 lS9()-97, Til, 1899, ]>. 454 {plumarius). 



Hojid and lunly compressed; lateral line armed with a .series of 

 spinous plates; a series of smaller similar plates alono- base of dorsal 

 widening- anteriorly so as to till the space between dorsal and lateral 

 line, but not extending around front of dorsal to connect with })and 

 on the other side. Head naked; gill mem])ranes broadly united, free 

 from the isthmus; no slit or pore behind last g'ill; no spines above eye 

 or on vertex; a single gentl}^ curved preopercular spine, not forked 

 and without cusps or processes; a large fringed supraorbital Hap; 

 small Haps and cirri on occiput, sides of head, and along lateral line; 

 teeth on jaws, vomer, and palatines; dor.sals continuous, notched 

 between spinous and soft portions; ventrals I, 3, without seta?; vent 

 far forward, immediately l)ehind l)ase of ventral iins, the male with a 

 long anal papilla. 



(dpxog, vent; alluding to its utuisual ])ositi<)ti.) 



3. ARCHISTES PLUMARIUS Jordan and Gilbert. 



Arcliixles jdiunurUin Jordan and (tilhert, Fish. I>ering Sea, in Rept. Fur Seal 

 Invest, for 1896-97, III, 1899, p. 454, pi. liii; Ushishir Island.— Jordan 

 and Evermann, Fish. N. and M. Amer., II, 1898, p. 1901; Ushishir Island. 



Head 3f in length; depth -t; eye H in head. D. X-23; A. IS; P. 15 

 or !♦). Anterior portion of head compressed and narrow, with verti- 

 cal sides, the width at angle of mouth little greater than diameter of 

 or})ir. From the ocular region the head widens rapidly ))ackward and 

 downwai'd to preopercular spine, leaving the occiput Jiarrow; greatest 

 width of head and body near preopercular spine, slightly less than 

 depth of head at occiput; body compressed, eveiy where much deeper 

 than wide. Mouth slightly oblicpie, maxillary reaching slightly beyond 

 vertical from front of pupil, og in head. Jaws and vomer with rather 

 wide bands of uniform fine teeth; a small patch on fiont of palatines; 

 na.sal spinels strong, fixed; pi-eopercular spine strong, simpl(\ directed 

 upward and l)ackward, gently curved; preocular margin without fur- 

 ther spines or prominences. Opercle thin, without rib or s|)ine; su- 

 praocular rim elevated, ])rojecting al)o\'e profile of head; interorbital 

 space narrow, deeply chaiuicled, the sides sloping convexly; occiput 

 depressed behind the eyes and transversely rounded, rendering the 

 profile somewhat concave; posteriorly the occiput rises and is literally 

 angulatetl, somewhat ciuadrate therefore in eross section; vei'tex with- 

 out ridges or s})ines; supraocuhir llap as long as eye, lanceolate in 

 form, coarsi^ly fi-inged along the margins; a j)aii' of broad, deeply cleft 

 flai)s neai' middle of occiput, and a second j)air at posterior edg(> of 

 occi\)ut; a long nasal ciri-us, a st'ries of shoit lilaniciits along margin 



