976 rROCEEDINGS OF THE XATIOXAL MUSEUM. vol. xxviii. 



Color in spirits: Top of head and a streak along middle of back in 

 front of first dorsal, warm brown'; sides of head and bod}' and the 

 tins slate-color; under parts slaty, a light-gray streak extending for- 

 ward from each ventral base nearly half way to pectorals. All the 

 tins are narrowly black-edged anteriorly. The color may have been 

 uniform ])rownish in life. 



Measurements in Imndredlhs of total le7igth. 



Greatest ck-pth 



Lfuu'tli of head, to anterior gill-slit 



LoiiKitiiflinal diameter of orbit 



Interorbital width 



Preocniar length of snout -. 



Preoral lengtli of .snout 



Width of he id behind spiraeles 



Greatest vviillh of snout 



Width between outer labial angles 



Length of fold fif upper lip 



Length of fold of lower lip 



Distance between inner ends of nostrils 



Distanee from snout to pectoral base 



Length of anterior margin of jn'ctoral 



Length of interval between )iectorals and ventrals 



Base of first dorsal, including anterior fold 



Instance between dorsals 



Lcuirth of ba.se of .second dorsal 



Length of anal base 



Length of caudal, measured below 



Distance from outer labial angle to symphysis 



Total length (in millimeters) 



TARANDICHTHYS FILAMENTOSUS (Gilbert). 



A perfectly typical specimen, IKS nnn. long, from Hood's Canal. 

 The species was originally described from the Santa Barbara channel, 

 and has been known hitherto only from southern and central Califor- 

 nia." Current descriptions should ))e corrected in two respects:- (1) 

 Th(^ interorbital area is comparatively wide, shallowly grooved, the 

 width increasing with ;ige, but the maximum width is only about two- 

 thirds the diameter of the pupil, not, as descril)ed, more than half the 

 diameter of the orbit. (2) The two anterior filamentous dorsal spines 

 iire produced far beyond the tin-membranes, the latter connecting 

 their basal portions and joining them to the third spine at a level 

 corresponding to the tips of the tiiird and some of the succeeding 

 spines. 



ICELINUS BOREALIS Gilbert, 

 Icelimis sinilxi St.kkk.s, Pme, C'al. Acad. Sci., I'd ser., VI, ISltH, p. 551. 



Three specimens, the largest 70 mm. long, were dredged by Pro- 

 fessor Kincaid in (iritfin Bay, East Sound and AVest Sound. Reex- 

 amination of the types of /. .straho show that the}' are within the range 



! Gilbert, Kept. Comr. Fish and Fisheries for 1893 (1896), p. 469. 



