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on colored side, especially on lower jaw; 112 to 14 teeth on mandible, 

 lU to 12 on premaxillary. They are strong and blunt in a single even 

 row, forming a continuouiB cutting edge. Upper eye a little posterior 

 to lower; interorbital space rather wide and convex, the bone narrow 

 but not sharp, continued backwards and upwards on head behind eyes 

 as a blunt, scaled ridge. Gillrakers short and pointed, 6+10 in number. 



Origin of dorsal opposite middle of eye and slightly on blind side of 

 body. Longest dorsal niys equal in length to those of anal and con- 

 tained 2f times in head. Pectoral usually rounded, its length 1^ in 

 head; that of blind side 2. Caudal rounded, slightly angulated at ends 

 of outer rays. Lateral line with a low arch anteriorly; length of arch 

 contained .5^ in straight part of lateral line; its height i the long 

 diameter of upper eye. 



Cok)r brown, indistinctly mottled with darker brown; some speci- 

 mens show a dark blotch on lateral line at tip of pectoral, another just 

 behind middle of straight part of lateral line, and very inconspicuous 

 V)lotches at base of dorsal and anal tins'. Blind side more or less spotted 

 and soiled with dusky brown; the blind side of the vertical tins always 

 dark. Both sides in life sometimes very much blotched with rusty 

 red, sometimes without red. 



Here described from a specimen 35 cm. in length from Hakodate. 



It is rather common on the shores of Hokkaido. We have examples 

 from Hakodate, Mororan, and the Ainu village of Edomo. 



(Named for Dr. Georg Wilhelm Steller, naturalist of Bering's 

 Expedition.) 



29. GLYPTOCEPHALUS Gottsche. 



Glyptocepliahis Gottsche, Archiv fiir Naturgsch., 1835, p. 156 (type saxicola=cyno- 

 glossus Linna'us). 



Eyes and color on the right side. Body extremely elongate, more 

 than twice as long as deep, much compressed. Head very small and 

 short, its blind side with many excavations and mucous cavities in the 

 skull, mandible, and preopercle. Mouth very small; teeth moderate, 

 incisor-like, broad, equal, close set, in a single series; no teeth on 

 vomer or palatines. Gill rakers short, weak. Lower phar3'ngeals 

 narrow, with 1 or 2 rows of conical teeth. Lateral line nearly 

 straight, simple; scales very small, smooth; dorsal and anal very 

 long, there being more than 90 rays in the dorsal and more than 80 in 

 the anal; caudal tin rounded; anal spine present; ventral vays 6. Ver- 

 te))r{e in increased number, 58 to 05. Northern seas, in deep water. 

 This genus is one of the most strongly marked in the family, being 

 distinguished from most of the genera by the greatly increased num- 

 ber of vertel)r<e, and from all of them by the remarkable cavernous 

 structure of the bones of the head. An undescribed species of this 

 genus was seen by us in the museum at Hakodate. Our notes do not, 

 however, justify the publication of the species. 



(yXvTTTos^ sculptured; /c-f^orA./;, head.) 



