198 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxxi. 



63^6, 4. T6 in head; snout from upper eye, 4; maxillary, 1.9; pectoral 

 of eyed side, 2.1; of blind side, 3.25; upper lobe of caudal, 1.75. 



Profile of snout on same curve with that behind eye; very slightly 

 depressed above eye; eyes scarcely reaching to upper profile, the 

 lower one the more anterior; interorbital appearing rather flat and 

 moderately broad, the bone, however, narrow and convex, its width 

 less than half diameter of pupil; nostrils close together, the posterior 

 of eyed side in a broad, short tube, anterior in a narrower, longer tube; 

 anterior nostril of blind side with a long flap nearly a third as long as 

 upper eye, broadening toward its tip and becoming conspicuously 

 opaque white; snout with many pores scattered among the irregularly 

 placed scales; mouth reaching to or very slightly past the vertical 

 from posterior margin of lower eye; teeth long and slender and with 

 lance-shaped points, in a single row on lower jaw, their length unequal; 

 a double row of smaller teeth on side of upper jaw, the outer row the 

 smaller; they grow larger anteriorly, become curved inward, fang- 

 like and some of them depressible; gill rakers rather slender, the 

 longest a trifle less than half length of eye, their number 3+10; scales 

 very finely ctenoid, the spinules short, fine, and numerous, only seen 

 upon careful examination with a lens; many scales have only a few 

 irregular spinules; others are entii'ely without them, appearing as if 

 they had been rubbed off; head and body everywhere with numerous, 

 small, cycloid supplementar}^ scales crowded in; scales of blind side all 

 cycloid; snout, mandible, maxillar}^, and interorbital with numerous 

 small cycloid scales, those on latter extending out on e3^eball to edge 

 of iris; all fins rather closely covered with fine scales; lateral line 

 slightly bending upward from opposite tip of pectoral. Pectoral of 

 eyed side longer and more pointed than that of blind side; first rav of 

 dorsal inserted above anterior margin of pupil; ventral short, scarcel}' 

 reaching to front of anal. Caudal fyhallowly concave on posterior 

 outline. 



Color uniformly dark brown, without markmgs. 



This species differs from AtJieresthes stomlas^ of the Alaskan fauna, 

 in having only a single row of teeth on lower jaw, and the upper eye 

 not reaching the upper protile. The scales are more strongly ctenoid 

 and the anterior nostril bears a long flap. 



The type and sole specimen is 270 cm. in length; it is from station 

 3772 in Matsushima Bay, and is numbered 51490, U.S.N.M. 



(Named for Dr. Barton Warren Evermann.) 



16. ALy^OPS Jordan and Starks. 



Alseops Jordan and Starks, Bull. U. S. Fish Com., XXII, 1902 (1904), p. 623 

 {plinthus). 



This genus is allied to Pcecilopsetta. Body covered with large cte- 

 noid scales which are somewhat caducous; eyes and color on the right 



