816 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 
chin. The genus S7phagonus, to which Dr. Steindach- 
ner refers it, is based on Agonus segaliensis, which seems 
to be a true Brachyopsis. 
87. Podothecus acipenserinus (Pallas). 
Very abundant on sand beaches, where it is taken with 
seines. It reaches a foot in length. Many specimens 
taken. 
Two additional new species of Podothecus, presented 
by the Alaska Commercial Company, collected by Capt. 
J. G. Blair at Robin Island; in the Gult of Panence: 
Saghalien, may be here recorded: 
Podothecus accipiter Jordan & Starks, no. sp. -late 
Ixxxviil. 
Head 33 in length; depth 6%; dorsal VIII—9; anal 
10; pectoral 15; lateral plates 36; eye 4% in head; 
snout 2%; second dorsal spine 1%; second dorsal ray 
144; third anal ray 13; caudal 14; upper ray of pectoral 
i+ ventrals 234. 
Body elongate, not compressed; head triangular as 
viewed from above; the mouth wide, entirely inferior, 
q-shaped, the lower jaw shutting behind the upper by a 
distance equal to half eye; maxillary not reaching quite to 
anterior orbital rim; distance of anterior edge of upper lip 
from tip of rostral spines a little more than half eye; teeth 
in upper jaw almost obsolete; villiform band of teeth in 
lower jaw, wide in front becoming narrow at sides; 
vomer and palatines toothless; a patch of thick barbels 
below snout in front of mouth, the longest equal to verti- 
cal diameter of eye, a similar patch at end of maxillary, 
about equal in length to the shortest on snout; two short 
barbels on each side of lower lip between symphysis and 
angle of mouth. A pair of short, sharp, rostral spines, 
pointing directly forwards; at their base and much wider 
