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posteriorly; mouth and stomach pale; peritoneum black. Reaching 

 a length of 141 mm. 



Remarlcs. — The head of the young resembles that of P. cephalus, 

 the occiput being greatly swollen, not so pronounced in the adult. 

 The maxOlary reaches from beneath the middle of the eye to the 

 posterior margin. Tail very slender and attenuate, appearing short, 

 slender, and attenuate in the young when contrasted with the deep 

 head and trunk. Pores normal for the genus. Pseudobranchiae 

 absent. About 10 of the dorsal rays unsegmented. Caudal com- 

 paratively broad, truncate, connected for half its length to the anal, 

 the dorsal and anal connections nearly equal. Pectoral divided into 



Figure 93.— Parauparis garsiani. Teeth from type 



two distinct lobes ; the upper edge on a level with the lower margin of 

 the eye or below; the upper lobe of about 14 rays; the lower lobe of 

 three or four elongate rays, not graduated in length as in Liparis, 

 equal to twice the eye, the tips sometimes coiled; the space between 

 the two lobes bridged by four rudimentary rays. 



PARALIPARIS CEPHALUS Gilbert 



ParnUparis cephalus Gilbert, 1891, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 14, p. 561. — 

 JoRDON and Evermann, 1898, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 47, p. 2141.— 

 Gilbert, 1915, p. 354. 



Type. — Apparently lost, U.S.N.M.; Albatross Station 2892, off 

 southern California; depth 284 fathoms. The type not seen by the 

 writer. Four cotypes are in the Stanford Museum, No. 21. 



