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101. Liparis pulchellus (Ayrcs). 



A singli' Kpecimen <lre(l<?e(l in Bristol Bay, Alaska, station 3269; depth 16 fathoms. 



102. Liparis cyclopus Giintlier. 



Two specimens from Bristol Bay, Al.aska (station 3230; depth, 3:j- fathoms), are 

 referred to this species. Garmau ])laces L. cticlopits in the synonymy of L. caUiodoii, 

 but our specimens are undoubtedly distinct from tlie species described bj' Garman 

 under this name (Discoboli, p. .^)1, pi. vi, figs. 1-5) from a specimen said to originate 

 from San Francisco. Our Alaska s])ociinen8 are much more slender, with wide, 

 depressed head, without nuchal elevation, with the dorsal fin beginning posteriorly 

 slightly in front of the vertical from the vent, and the disk separated from the vent 

 by a distance less than its own diameter. The mouth is also much smaller, not at all 

 oblique, its angle in advance of vertical from front of oye. Dorsal 33; anal 30; 

 caudal 12; pectoral 29. Gill-slit extending downward to opposite the upper three or 

 four pectoral rays. Dorsal and anal tins not joined to caudal. Disk 2^ in head. 



103. Liparis agassizii Putnam. 



Several yonng examples were dredged in Bristol Bay, Alaska; stations 3241, 3247 

 and 3301 ; depths 14 and 17 fathoms. 



104. Liparis cyclostigma sp. noA^ 



A robust, compressed species, with broad, gently convex head, the nape not ele- 

 vated, a comparatively wide gill-opening, a single continuous dorsal fin, the dorsal 

 and anal broadly joined to the caudal, and the coloration peculiar. Profile gently 

 and evenly declining from nape to end of premaxillary processes, thence descending 

 more steeply to tip of snout. Interorbital space very wide, equaling length of snout 

 and half of eye, 2? in head. Distance from tip of snout to front of exposed portion 

 of eye 2,'|[ in head. 



Head 3^ in length. Mouth terminal, broad and transverse with but little lateral 

 cleft, the two jaws equal, the lower not included. The maxillary is entirely bound 

 down by skin of head, reaching vertical from front of pupil, the angle of mouth in 

 advance of eye. Bands of teeth extremely broad, the teeth very small, all tricuspid, 

 the outer ones minute, those toward inner margin of jaw increasing in size. The 

 anterior series in each jaw are nearly transverse, the lateral series becoming succes- 

 sively more and more oblique, the uppermost nearly parallel with the jaw; about 20 

 series in each side of lower jaw, 30 on each side of upper jaw. The width of baud 

 in upper jaw equals two-thirds diameter of exposed portion of eye, which is one- 

 fourth length of snout, two-sevenths interorbital width. Nostrils without tube. 

 Lower lip distinct on lateral three-fifths or two-thirds of mandible. Gill-opening 

 wide, extending downward to opposite base of fifteenth pectoral ray, the length of 

 the slit 2f in head. Disk large, oblong, its longitudinal diameter 2^ in head, equaling 

 its distance from anus and twice the distance of the latter from base of first anal 

 ray. Pyloric co'ca 28. 



Pectoral very broad, inserted low, its upi)er margin on a level with premaxillaries, 

 much below the eye. The rays decrease but little in length from the first to the 

 twentieth, and form a very broad evenly rounded lobe. Below the twentieth the 

 rays decrease gently and have cxserted tips, until the shortest ray equals two-thirds 

 the longest upper ray. There follow three or four somewhat longer rays, the tips 

 still further exserted, then four or five rays which decrease rapidly, the shortest 

 anterior one equaling diameter of eye. Longest pectoral ray 1] in head. Base of 

 first dorsal ray in a vertical passing through axil of pectoral. Longest dorsal ray 

 l;^ in head, the last rays rapidly shortened so as to produce a notch at union with 

 the caudal, the last ray less than tw'o-thirds the longest, the dorsal membrane join- 

 ing at end of l)a8al third of caudal. The anal fin is equal in height to the dorsal, but 

 the last rays arc Init little shortened, so that no notch exists ])osteriorly. It forms a 

 much broader union with the ciudal, which it joins at the end of its basal two- 

 thirds. Cautlal broad, rounded, the outer rays four-fifths the length of middle rays, 



