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the tip. Head and body anteriorly blackish, paler posterioriy; 

 peritoneum black. 



Original description abbreviated; D. 49; A. 45; P. 24. Depth 

 7 in the total length; head 5.5. Eye 4 in the head. Head flattened 

 on the crown; nape not high. Snout short, nearly as long as the eye. 

 Pectoral broad, notched somewhat by the shorter fifth and sixth ray,. 

 each ray prolonged into a soft filament. Length 4 inches. 



PARAUPARIS DEANI Burke 



Paraliparis holomelas Evermann and Goldsborotjgh, 1907, p. 334, (part, not 



of Gilbert). 

 Paraliparis deani Burke, 1912o, p. 571. — Gilbert, 1915, p. 355. 



Ty2)e. — No. 60570, U.S.N.M.; Stephens Passage, southeast coast 

 of Alaska, Albatross Station 4253 ; depth 188 fathoms. Length 68 mm. 



Figure 85.— Pakalipakis deani. Teeth from type 



Distribution. — Southeast coast of Alaska; Albatross Stations 4194, 

 4203, 4251, 4253, 4255, 4292, and 4293; depth 30-274 fathoms. 

 Twenty-two specimens examined. 



Relationships. — P. deani is one of the few species of the genus in 

 which the gill slit extends down in front of the pectoral fin. It is 

 possibly allied to P. entocMoris of the Okhotsk Sea, apparently differ- 

 ing in the smaller number of dorsal and anal rays and possibly in the 

 stronger dentition and the presence of prickles. 



Synopsis. — Dorsal 56-57 ; anal 44-48; pectoral 18-21 ; pyloric coeca 

 9. Depth of body 4.5-6 in length without caudal. Lower lobe of 

 pectoral 1.2 in head. Gill slit extending down in front of 10 to 13 

 pectoral rays. Teeth simple but with a well developed shoulder near 

 the tip, somewhat arrow-shaped at the tip, short, slender, slightly 

 recurved. Thumb-tack prickles present. Body pale; peritoneum 



