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Distribution. — KJiown only from the type locality. Two speci- 

 mens examined. 



Relationships. — -For comparisons with P. deani see description of 

 latter species. 



PARAUPARIS LIPARINA (Goode) 



Aniiira liparina Goode, 1880, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 3, p. 487. — Goode and 

 Bean, 1895, Special Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 2, p. 278, fig. 252, (part).— 

 Jordan and Evermann, 1898, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 47, p. 2138. 



Monometra liparina Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1883, p. 109. 



Paraliparis liparina Gunther, 1887, Challenger Rept., vol. 22, p. 68. — Garman* 

 1892 Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 14, No. 2, p. 82. 



Type.— No. 26184, U.S.N.M.; Fish Hawk Station 891, southeast 

 of Long Island, New York; depth 480 fathoms. Type lost. 



Distribution. — Atlantic Ocean, soiitheastof New York. Fish Hawk 

 Station 891 and Albatross Station 2586; depth 328-480 fathoms. 



Figure 88.— Paraliparis uparina. Teeth from specimen No. 46002, U.S.N.M. 



Relationship. — The author has been unable to demonstrate the 

 presence of pseudobranchiae in the species and places it with Parali- 

 paris; a pale colored species with the gill slit above the pectoral. 



Description of No. 46002. — Dorsal 58; anal 55; pectoral 22; caudal 

 4; pyloric coeca 4. Depth 5.5; head 5.3. Eye 3.5 in the head. 



Body slender, not attenuate, tapering gradually to the caudal. 

 Head rather slender; occiput slightly swollen; cheeks vertical; pro- 

 file concave over the eye. Mouth moderate; lower jaw included. 

 Teeth simple but with a shoulder sometimes indicated, short and 

 stout, very blunt, tuberclelike, not recurved, in moderate bands. 

 Snout deep, abrupt, slightly projecting. Nostril without a tube. 

 Eye large, black; pupil round. Gill slit imcertain. One supra- 

 branchial pore present. No prickles. Pyloric coeca 6, on the left 

 side. 



Anterior 12 dorsal rays unsegmented. Caudal slender, truncate, 

 connected for two-fifths of its length to the anal. Pectoral deeply 

 divided; the upper lobe of 15 rays; the lower lobe of four elongated 

 rays; the space between the two lobes divided by three rudimentary 

 rays. 



