986 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxviii. 



The last uiial ray is partly united with the basal portion of the cau- 

 dal in this younu- northern s})eeiuieu — a character we can not verify in 

 soutliern adults. The species has 7 branchiostegals and the lateral line 

 is evident, forming- a strong- arch anteriorly at)ove the pectorals. 



LYCODES BREVIPES Bean. 



A single specimen, li^'i nun. long, was taken by Professor Kincaid 

 in East Sound, Puget Sound. The species has l)een known previously 

 only from Alaskan waters. The tin rays have been incorrectly enu- 

 merated in this species. Counting to the middle of the tail, we tind in 

 four specimens, including the Puget Sound example, the dorsal con- 

 tains 98 to 1(>2 rays and the anal 8!i to S'.t. The differences between 

 L. In-'t'ipcx and L. jxdearis are small in amount, but seem to be con- 

 stant. The suggestion having been made that they were due to sex, 

 we have examined that matter in 9 specimens of L. hrevipes^ with the 

 result that 5 were found to be females and 4 males. We give below 

 measurements of the Puget Sound specimen in hundredths of the total 

 length: 



Length of head 22 



Length of smout ~-^ 



Diameter of eye 5 



Length of maxillary 9 



Distance to front of dorsal 29. 5 



Distance to vent -i-"^ 



Depth of body 12 



Length of pectoral 12 



Length of ventral 2 



LYCONECTES ALEUTENSIS Gilbert. 



Lyconectes aleutenni.^ (tilbert, Kept. U. S. Fish Conn: fcir 1893 (1896), p. 452, 



pi. XXXIV. 



Two tine specimens, 2()5 and 2:iS nun. long, were taken at Brinnon. 

 Hood's Canal, Puget Sound. The species has been known hitherto 

 only from the type specimen, taken by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries 

 steamer Allxdnm in 1890, north of Tnalaska Island, at a depth of 45 

 fathoms. 



In the specimens before us, the dorsal contains 67 spines, the anal 

 4:0 and 49 rays, the pectorals 13 rays, the caudal 17 and 18 rays. The 

 tirst two anal rays are spine-like, being simple, stiff, and pungent, but 

 thev are distinctly articulated. The remaining anal rays are all soft, 

 and are once cleft near their tips, the branches thus formed being 

 closely joined throughout except in the posterior rays, where they 

 diverge. 



The eyes completelv till the sockets, their sunken condition in the 

 type having- been olniously the result of the strong spirits employed 

 in its preservation. There is a deep circuhir pit, with diameter about 



