680 B(TLLKTIN OF THE UNITKD STATE!^ FISH COMMISSION. 



even, tlie upper encrnachiiit; on the yiroljle; hcail without spiiU'H or tul)i'rcles; month small, oliliqne, 

 with ecjiuil jaws; lenfjth of maxillary less than 0.3 length of head; teeth slemler, villiform, arranged in 

 wide hands in jaws; more numerous on hliud side, where the V)ands are wi<ler and longer; on eyed 

 side, the Viands taper rapidly, hecoming single series in upper jaw, soon disajipearing in lower jaw; 

 vomer and palatines toothless; gill-rakers very short, tuothless, developed on both vertical and hori- 

 zontal limbs of areh, 8 -• 12 in innnber. 



Dorsal tin beginning above middle of upper eye, extending, like the anal tin. to base nf (inter 

 eaudal rays; ihjrsal and anal rays all siniiile, scaleless, low, none of them prolongeil; caudal ilnulile- 

 truneate; the right pectoral longer than the left, its rays densely covered with sei'ies of scales; ventrals 

 nearly symmetrical, with narrow bases, the right slightly in advance of the left. 



Scales rough-ctenoid on the right side, si th and cycloid cm the left; lateral line develnped nu 



right side only, with a high anterinr arch, which is olili(|iiely truncate above, its up]ier line nearly 

 straight and rising posteriorly. 



Color in sjiirits, light- olive-brown, with very fine lirown spots and some faint dark spots and bars, 

 the spots ajiparently arranged in a series just within up[)er and lower outlines, tlie bars apparently 

 4 in number, with ill-detined edges, narrower than interspaces; a series of brown blotches on basal 

 portion of dorsal and anal lins; right pectoral narrowly black-edged; I'audal with a pair of large Iilack 

 spots occupying middle of outer rays. 



In (i specimens, which do not include the type, the following tin and scale counts are ob.served : 

 Dorsal 02, Ii4, ti"), 6n, 6(>, and B7; anal 5H, 57, o5, 56, 58, and 58; pectoral 9, 10, 12, 11, 10, and 9; scales 

 85, 84, 97, 84, 84, and 90. 



The species was taken at the fnllowing stations; Nos. 3832, off the south coast of Molokai, 142 P. 

 15;! fathoms; 3S58, I'ailol.i Channel, 128 to 138 fathoms; 3957, near Lay.san, 173 to 229 fathoms; 4079, 

 off the north coast of INlaui, 143 to 178 fathoms; 4080, off the north <'oast of iVIaui, 178 tci 202 fathoms; 

 4081, off the north c(iast of :\Iaui, 2(r2 to 220 fathoms; 4082, off the north coast nf Mani, 220 to 238 

 fathoms; 4120, off the northwest coast of Oalm, 1(17 to 210 fathoms. 



Taeniopsetta, new genus. 



Body sinistral; ventral lins lateral in position, nearly symmetrical; mouth small, teeth small, 

 conical, equally developed on both siiles, in single series; scales minute, strongly ciliated in the typical 

 species; a strong anterior anli to lali'ial line; no lateral line on blind side; a narrow sharp interociilar 

 ridge in both si'xes; some of anterior dorsal ami anal rays |iTolonged and filamentous. 



In addition to the typical species, the genus may include I'srudoi-liinnhus ijcii/iihis ( iiinther ( Shore- 

 fishes, (.Challenger, 1880, p. 50, pi. .x.Yiv, hgs. A and B), from the Admiralty Islands, although in this 

 species the scales are said to be not ciliated. 

 Tiriiii>ps< Ita fiilherl, new gomis iil' P[varonc'iii<(:r [r(i<hihn. 



Taeniopsetta radula, new spi'cies. Fig. 200. 



Tyjie, a male, 115 mm. long, from station .3858, I'ailolo Cliannel between ]\lolokai and Maiii, depth 

 128 to 138 fathoms; type, No. 51639, I'. S. Nat. Mus. 



Length of head 26 hundredtlis of total length without eamlal; leiigtli of snout from lower eye 5.5, 

 from ujiper eye 9; diameter of upper eye 9; length of maxillary 7.5; depth of liody 62; least depth of 

 caudal yieduncle 10; longest dorsal ray 43 (27 in female cotype); longest anal ray 45 (3(1 in female); 

 longest non-iilainentous dorsal ray 13; longest caudal ray 22; longest pectoral ray 10; chonl of arch of 

 lateral line 15. D. 8S; .\. 72; P. 13; pores in lateral lines aliout 111); rows of scales running n|iward and 

 forward above lateral line about 140. Vertebric 9 + 31. 



Body deeply ovate; ventral outline more arched than dorsal; snout very short, its anterior proiile 

 nearly vertical, verj' slightly incurved opposite origin of dorsal lin; eyes large, separated by a sharp 

 scaleless ridge, which I lears a series of spinous prickles, more or less numerous in both sexes; one or 

 more spines also present on the anterior rim of each orbit, one above |>remaxillaries, and one at sym- 

 physis of lower jaw; lower eye liut little in ailvance of npjier; mouth \ciy small, oblique, maxillary 

 not nearly reaching vertical from front of impil, about .3 length of lu-ad: teeth i-lo.se-set, conical, ei|Ual, 

 ill a single series, with a feu declined teeth forming an inner series in left premaxillary near angle of 

 moutli; vomer and palale lootliless; "ill -rakers nearly olisolete, but 5 very short rndimeiilson horizontal 

 limb of arch. 



