25 . Trlglops scepticus Gilbert 



This form ecologically replaces Trlglops beam at depths greater than 120 

 meters. It was found on the ridge of Avacha Bay from 114-134 meters and 150 m. ; 

 off Cape Olytorsky at 142 - 120 meters on sandy clay and sandy bottoms at bottom 

 temperatures of . 2° to 1.7°. 



Our examples fully agree with Gilbert's description of this species. 



One may mention a number of characters which indicate life at relatively 

 great depths on shallow clay bottoms. The fish have weak and tender anal fins, 

 body covered with spmelike bristles which offer good protection from the sedi- 

 ment and hide the fish. Color uniform with hardly distinguishable rudimentary 

 lines (color is unnecessary to a fish covered by clay), enormous eyes and other 

 attributes . 



Distributed m the Bering Sea from 100 to 250 meters, never occuring north 

 of the Anadyr - St . Lawrence cold shallow waters . 



26 . Melletes papilio (Bean) 



Melletes papilio Bean Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 2, 1880, p. 354 (St. Paul Id.). 

 Hemilepidotus gilberti Schmidt (non Jordan & Starks) Ann. Mus. Zool. Acad. 



Sci. URSS 30, 1929, p. 364 (in part Tkachen Bay, juvenile). 

 Neohemilepidotus japonicus Sakamoto Jour . Imp. Fish. Inst., Tokyo, 27, 



1932, p. 4, fig. 2 (no definite locality). 



This species is described from the work of the DALNEVOSTOTCHNIK (1932) 

 and KRASNOARMEIETZ (1933) as very common in Northern Bering Sea, occuring 

 from the coasts of Koriak Land, Anadyr Gulf to Bering Strait, one example from 

 Krustern Id. (DALNEVOSTOTCHNIK Sta . 27 (20)). It occurs at depths of 25 to 

 104 meters. Usually on gravel and rocky bottoms, seldom sand. It is absent 

 from clay bottoms. Temperature range wide (from -1.2' to 5.5') but most 

 common at higher temperatures found south of Anadyr Gulf, described as 

 Hemilepidotus jordani Bean in an unnotched 1st D, five rows of scale -like papilla 

 (but not round plates as in the type of the genus Hemilepidotus ( Cuvier) that occur 

 below the lateral line and well developed short ridges on the occiput . 



With the genus Melletes Bean must be synonymized Neohemilepidotus japonicus 

 described by Sakamoto (1932, location unknown). The two adult examples do not 

 differ from the limits of Melletes and are close (if not identical with) M. papilio 

 Bean. 



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