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The color of all the specimens has bleached out during their quarter 

 of a century in alcohol to a pale brownish yellow. The dorsal, anal, 

 and pectoral fins show faint indications of darker markings, while the 

 pelvics and lower rays of the pectorals seem to have been silvery white. 



Holotype. — U.S.N.M. no. 94728, 52 mm in standard length, 65 mm 

 in total length; from Albatross station 4968, off the coast of Waka- 

 yama, Japan, lat. 33°24'50" N., long. 135°38'40" E., in 253 fathoms. 



Paratypes. — U.S.N.M. no. 94729, 3 specimens, 48.5-51.5 mm in 

 standard length; from the same station. Nat. Hist. Mus. Stanford 

 Univ. no. 28727, 1 specimen, 50.5 mm in standard length; from the 

 same station. 



Figure 26. — Stlengis distoechus, new species; a. External, and 6, internal view of lateral line scale; c, scale 



from dorsal band. 



STLENGIS MISAKIA (Jordan and Starks) 



Schmidtia misakia Jordan and Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 27, p. 237, 



fig. 2, 1904. 

 Schmidtina misakia Jordan and Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 27, p. 961, 



1904; Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 22, p. 590, fig., 1902 (1904).— Jordan, 



Tanaka, and Snyder, Journ. Coll. Sci. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, vol. 33, p. 255, 



fig. 190, 1913. 



Diagnosis. — Orbit 3.1 (3.0-3.4) in head. Pores of head moderate 

 in size; the main ones of the mandibular series surrounded by a circlet 

 of small supernumerary openings. Dorsal IX (IX-XI), 16 (15-17); 

 Anal 13 (12-14); Pectoral 17 (15-18). Lateral line armed v/ith 36 

 (36-37) scales, the scale band extending to base of caudal fin. No 

 other scales present. 



ASTROCOTTUS,^ new genus 



Genotype. — Astrocottus leprops, new species. 



Diagnosis. — Preopercle armed with 3 short simple spines. Gill 

 membranes broadly united, free from isthmus. Branchiostegals 6. 

 Teeth in broad villifonn bands on premaxillaries, dentaries, and 



' From daTpov, constellation + Cottus, 



