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back; a third along base of aual. Width of head equal to greatest 

 depth of body; interorbital area equal to snout, or one-third length of 

 mandible; maxillary reaching a little behind eye, its length 3 in dis- 

 tance from snout to front of dorsal; eye 2 in snout, 11 in liead. Be- 

 ginning at a short distance behind origin of dorsal, small, oblong, 

 cycloid scales, closely imbricated, cover a strip of the body along the 

 lateral line; the scaled area gradually widens backward until, behind 

 the vent, only a very narrow strip along bases of dorsal and anal is 

 naked. Dorsal beginning over upper angle of gill-opening; first spine 

 half as long as the seventy-first or longest; caudal 11 m length; pec- 

 toral 3 in head. Head 6; depth 10. D. LXXVI; A. II, 46; P. 13; 

 coeca 6. L. 30 inches. Coasts of British Columbia and Alaska. (Bean.) 

 (Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882 ) 



423.— CKYPTACAWfTHODES Storer. 



Wry-mouths. 



(Storer, Rept. Fish. Mass. 1839, 28: type Crypiacantlwdes maculatus Storer.) 



Body very long and slender, compressed, naked; lateral line obso- 

 lete; head oblong, cuboid, with vertical cheeks; conspicuous mucifer- 

 ous channels in mandible and preopercle; head flattish above, with 

 deep rounded jjits between and behind eyes; mouth large, very ob- 

 lique; lower jaw very heavy, its tip projecting; premaxillary not pro- 

 tractile; jaws with rather sharp, conical teeth; larger teeth on the 

 vomer and palatines; most of the teeth in single series. Gill-mem- 

 branes joined to the isthmus; the gill-openings prolonged forwards 

 below; pyloric cosca 5. Dorsal fin long, composed entirely of spines, 

 which are rather strong, but enveloped in the skin; dorsal and aual 

 joined to the caudal ; no ventral fins ; pectorals short. Size rather 

 large; one species known, {-/.pu-rd^, hidden; a-/.a^Ou^!;^ spined.) 



1£9'1. C. i9Bacuta.tus Storer. — Wry-mouth; Glio-st-Jifih. 



Light brownish, with several series of smallish dark sj)ots, arranged 

 in more or less regular rows, from the head to the base of the caudal; 

 vertical fins closely spotted with darker; head above thickly speclvled; 

 body sometimes {'■'■ inornatus'''') entirely immaculate. Eyes small, placed 

 high, not so wide as the interorbital space, which has 2 ridges and 3 

 pits ; orbital rim raised ; 2 deep pits behind eye at the temples ; a 

 deeper pit on the top of head between them; a raised ridge con- 

 tinued backward on each side of head behind orbital rim; maxillary 

 extending to beyond eye; pseudobranchise small; pectorals short, 3 in 



