NO 135,8. 



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56. PSYCHROLUTES PARADOXUS Gunther. 



Psychrolutes pdrado.cun Guntiiee, Cat., Ill, IHtil, p. SKi; (hill of (ieorgia, Vancouver 

 Island (Coll. II. M. S. Plumper). — Jordan and Gilbert, Synopsis Fi!?h. X. Anier., 

 1883, p. 687.— Jordan and Gilbert, Kept. U. S. Fur Seal Comm., Ill, 1898, p. 

 469; St. Paul Island, Iturup Island, Karluk. — Jordan and Ever.mann, Fish. 

 N. and M. Ainer., II, 1898, p. 2026; Unalaska. 



Psi/chrulafcs zebra Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1890, p. 43; Aleutian Jf-lauds, between 

 Unga and Nagai islands, at Albatross Station 2848, 55° 10^ N., 160° 18' W., in 

 110 fathoms. — Jordan and Stark, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., 1895, p. 811, pi. lxxxv. — 

 Gilbert, Kept. U. S. Fish Comm., 1893 (1896), p. 410. 



Head 3| in length; depth 4i, equal to head without .snout. D, IX, 

 15 to 17, only 12 rays seen without dissection; A. 12 or IS; V. I, 3; 

 branch iostegals 7. Head large, very broad, tapering suddenly to 

 caudle peduncle. Eye li in head, a little shorter than snout, a little 

 less than width of interorbital space. Maxillary extending to below- 

 middle of e^^e. Interocular space flat, not concave; jaws equal, the 



Fig. 42.— PSYCHROLUTES fARADOXUS. 



lower /-^-shaped, its arch not narrowed behind. Pectoral reaching to 

 slightly above origin of anal, 2f in body; ventrals veiy small, one-third 

 length head. Vent about midwa}^ between ventral and anal origin, the 

 second dorsal beginning nearly over tip of pectoral; first dorsal entirely 

 buried in the skin, its short, stiflish spines to be found onl}' bv dissec- 

 tion. Color light chocolate brown above, with minute spots of dark; 

 whitish below; a pale stripe from eye downward and forward, ])etween 

 2 dark ones; body with 3 very irregular dark cross bands, the third 

 extending on dorsal and anal, the first 2 largel}^ confluent and all very 

 irregular in form; an o))li(iue dark band on base of caudal, a narrow 

 dark band behind it; pectoral with 2 or 3 cross bands; all fins, except 

 the ventral, with traces of bands. Length 2^ inches. A specimen, 

 50 mm. long, taken b}^ the U. S. Fish Commission steamer ^[/7}>/f/'(m 

 oli' St. Paul Island, Bering Sea, in ISDO, shows the following charac- 

 ters: Head 2|; depth 3. D. IX, 15; A. 13; P. 19; eye 4 in head; 

 width of mouth, from angle to angle, li; snout 3i; interorbital 3^. 

 Body short, broad, thick, tadpole-shape, the texture soft like that of 

 a Liparid, especially about the head; the skin is limp and smooth, 

 covered with little soft dermal warts, that of head especially lax, the 

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