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bar at base, otherwise plain; pectorals and anal blotched with black. 

 Coast of Alaska and Kamchatka, not very common; the specimen here 

 described from Kadiak; recorded by Schmidt from near Vladivostok. 

 {bilobus^ two lobed.) 



36. BLEPSIAS Cuvier. 

 Blepsias Cuvier, Regne Animal, 2(1 ed., 1829 [cirrhosus) . 



Head and body compressed; skin hispid with stitfish villiform 

 prickles, and with definitely naked areas; snout and chin with several 

 rather long barbels; mouth small; teeth villiform, on jaws, vomer, 

 and palatines; preopercle with 2 short blunt spines; gill membranes 

 free from the isthmus; gills 4, a slit behind the fourth; top of head 

 with bony ridges; suborbital stay narrow; lirst dorsal short, elevated 

 in front, emarginate, the spines slender; second dorsal large; anal 

 similar, lower; ventrals very short, I, 8; pectorals long. North 

 Pacific. 



(An old name of some fish; from cksTtoo^ look.) 



53. BLEPSIAS DRACISCUS Jordan and Starks, new species. 

 SACHIKO;" ISOBATENGU. 



Head 3| in length without caudal; depth 3i; dorsal IX (IV\ I, IV)- 

 24; anal 20; lateral line 50. Eye 4i in head; snout 4i; maxillary 2i; 

 interorbital space 4; second dorsal spine l\\ longest soft ray li; longest 

 anal ray 1|; length of pectoral I; ventral 2^; caudal 1. 



Body nuich compressed. Mouth rather oblique. Anterior end of 

 maxillary on a level wdth lower fourth of eye; posterior end reaching 

 to below middle of eye. Rather narrow bands of villiform teeth on 

 jaws, vomer, and palatines. Nasal spines w^ell developed, at each side 

 of the produced process from the premaxillary. Superorbital rim 

 raised, making the wide interorliital space deeply concave. A pair of 

 low ridges near middle of interorbital space, diverging posteriorly 

 and each having a short flap opposite middle of eye. Parietal ridges 

 strong, rather uneven, continuous with a ridge apparently on upper 

 limb of posttemporal. A slight transverse ridge in front of parietal 

 ridges bounding a (juadrate pit. A ridge on side of head running 

 backward from upper fourth of eye. Sul)orbitals with a slight ridge 

 continuous on suborbital stay. Four prominent but blunt spines on 

 edge of preopercle; the one next to the top the longest. Nostrils 

 ending in a tube. A pair of long tentacles at tip of snout, and a sin- 

 gle median one just above them; a similar tentacle on superorl)ital 

 rim over posterior third of eye; 3 tentacles on each side of mandible; 

 a short one near end of maxillary. 



a Sachiko means child of the Sachi, the Agonoid fish Draciscus sachi; Isobatengu is 

 "Nosey of the Surf." Tengu (Nosey) is along-nosed comical being in Japanese 

 mythology. 



