FISHES OF PUGET SOUND. 829 
One specimen brought up from deep water in the 
dredge, % inch in length. Numbered 3131 on the regis- 
ter of the Leland Stanford Jr. University Museum. 
This species seems to belong to the genus Lethotremus 
Gilbert, MS. From Z. muticus, type of the genus, it is 
distinguished by its few-rayed fins and by its scanty 
prickles. 
93. Eumicrotremus orbis (Giinther). 
One specimen of this interesting fish taken, 2 inches in 
length. 
Family LIPARIDIDA. 
94. Neoliparis greeni Jordan and Starks, n. sp. Plate 
XCV1. 
Heac 34; depth 4; depth at disk 5; dorsal VI-34; 
anal 30; pectoral 35; caudal 15; eye small, about Io in 
head; snout 234; longest pectoral ray 134; disk 2%; 
longest dorsal ray 2%; longest anal ray 2%; caudal 134. 
Body elongate, posteriorly compressed; profile undu- 
late, over snout blunt and rounded, depressed over eyes, 
well rounded from eyes over occipital region. Skin 
thin and exceedingly loose, nearly to the end of the dor- 
sal and anal rays. 
Jaws equal; maxillary extending to posterior margin 
of eye; teeth small, nearly simple, depressible and blunt, 
slightly hooked back, arranged in oblique series, those in 
the front running nearly straight in, but towards the sides 
of the jaw they grow more and more oblique till they are 
nearly parallel with the jaw at the sides; superior pharyn- 
geal teeth conical and sharp, slightly longer than the teeth 
in the jaws, arranged in a single round patch on each 
side; inferior pharyngeals separate, with small teeth. 
(Teeth probably tricuspid in young specimens. ) 
Posterior nostrils in a short wide tube; cheeks well 
