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specimens of G. pistilliger and G. tricuspis. These marks were apparently absent 

 also in the type, as no mention is made of them. Tlio sjjinous dorsal is not greatly 

 elevated, its longest spine being contained 2^ times in the head. It is without dis- 

 tinctive markings, being colored like the soft dorsal, light yellowish, cross-banded 

 with darker. Anal papilla short, 5 mm. in length. 



Plates on head as in description, covering the interorbital region, crown, occiput, 

 and nape as iar back as front of dorsal; present also on upper part of opercle and 

 in a vertical streak immediately behind eye. A very prominent tubercle over hinder 

 margin of eye, a coustriction behind it. Occipital region broadly rounded, without 

 tubercles or conspicuous prominences of any kind, but with three smooth areas 

 corresponding in position with the tubercles of G. pistiUif/er, and perhaps present as 

 such in the young. The anterior one is slightly elevated. No superciliary filaments. 

 Preopercular spines massive, short, with a single fork at tip, no accessory spines 

 developed. Axil with prickly scales but without filaments. 



Dorsal xi-16; anal 19; lateral line 43; head .52 mm. long; depth 32 mm. The 

 depth is &i in the total length, not 7J as described for the type. 



This species is much more nearly related to G. fricuspis than to G. j)isiiUt(jer. We 

 have had no opportunity to compare it with the former, and follow Dr. Beau in 

 considering it distinct. 



68. Enophrys diceraus (Ciivier &l Valenciennes). 



Several adults taken with seine at Herendeen Bay, Alaska Peninsula. There are 

 6 or 7 strong barbs inclined forward on the upper surface of the preopercular spine, 

 which is very long, slender, and straight, reaching to below middle of spinous dorsal. 

 Filaments arranged as in E. claviger, but those on posterior part of body much more 

 numerous. Anal papilla very large, 27 mm. in a specimen 195 mm. long. There seem 

 to be no prickles on region above lateral line or on abdomen. 



Fin rays in 7 specimens are as follows : 



Rays 



Specimena . 



Spinous 

 dorsal. 



VIII 



7 



Soft dorsal. 



Anal. 



Stomachs filled with molluscan shells, mainly limpets. 



69. Enophrys claviger (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



A single specimen, 25 mm. long, from station 3233, Bristol Bay, Alaska; depth, 7i 

 fathoms. 



The upper preopercular spine is long and very slender, extending to below middle 

 of spinous dorsal, bearing small serrations on anterior and posterior edges of basal 

 half, but without larger teeth or accessory spinules. Area above lateral plates 

 thickly beset with minute prickles; posterior part of abdominal region and the 

 area above anal fin similarly beset with prickles which scarcely project beyond the 

 small tubercles ill which they occur. A few larger postaxial prickles and a small 

 number of white filaments scattered along middle of sides. Filaments also at base 

 of preopercular spines and 2 or 3 at tip of maxillary. 



Dorsal viii-14; anal 11; lateral line 35. It does not seem to us probable that this 

 is the young of E. diceraiiH, as Dr. Bean would have it. 



70. Triglops beani sp. nov. (Plate 28.) 



Triglops pingeli Bean, Proc. II. S. Nat. Mus. 1883, p. 355, not of Reinhardt. 

 Diagnosis: This is the Pacific representative of the Atlantic T. pivgcJi, from which 

 it differs in the greater slendernoss of the body, ])articularly of the caudal peduncle, 

 in the somewhat smaller eye, the more pointed snout, the less tine subdivision of the 



