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eggs of good size (larger than shad eggs) and of l)right rosin color. Fifty-six of the specimens were taken 

 at Karluk by Mr. Rutter. These were 1.25 to 1.8 inches long, and the dorsal counts in many of them 

 were iv, in-24; the young have a distinct color pattern, showing the pale blotches on fins very distinctly. 

 These blotches are n'ot so distinct on larger examples, indicating that the young are much more bril- 

 liantly colored. 



Recorded by Bean (1882) from Sitka; Port Mulgrave, Yakutat Bay; Iliuliuk and Chernofski, 

 TJnalaska; Bay of Islands, Adak; Kyska, and St. Paul Island. Gilbert (1895), Unalaska. 



160. Nautiscus pribilovius Jordan it Gilbert. 



Recorded by Bean(1882) from I'nalaska, Adak, Kyska, and St. Paul, Kodiak Island, as Nautichthys 

 ociilofasciaius; under the same name by Gilbert (1895) from Bristol Bay and south of the Alaskan Pen- 

 insula at stations 3213, .3217, 3220, 3222, 3231, to ;?2:34, 323G, 3240, 3274, 3281, 3290 to ,3294, 3296, 3300, 

 and 3302. The species was described by Jordan & Gilliert in 1899, the t\q)e coming from St. George 

 Island and a cotype from I'nalaska. 



161. Nautichthys oculofasciatus (Girard). 



One specimen 4 inches long from station 4209, ^Vdmiralty Inlet; 1 specimen 4.3 inches long from 

 station 4219, mouth of Oak Bay. 



162. Ulca marmorata (Bean). 



A specimen (no. 2917) 12.5 inches long from station 4255, Chilkoot Inlet, is described as follows: 



Head 2.G in length; depth 5; eye 5.5 in head; snout 4; maxillary 1.5; mandilde 1.28; interorbital 

 2.5; length of middle pectoral rays 1.5; second dorsal spine, including filament, 2.5; longest dorsal ray 

 2.0; caudal 2; longest anal rays 2.7; ventrals 3.1. 



Head very broad, depressed, the body tapering gradually to the slender caudal peduncle; mouth 

 large, oblique, the maxillary extending beyond pupil; the mandible strongly projecting; teeth very 

 strong on jaws, vomer, palatines, premaxillaries, and tongue, many of them enlarged and canine-like; 

 head very rough, with numerous large l)lunlish spines, those on supraocidar and occiput largest and 

 strongest; one large blunt spine at upper angle of opercle followed by a long curved ridge; preopercle 

 with 4 Idunt diverging spines, the second one from top longest; opercle with a strong ridge; interorbital 

 very broad and concave; body everywhere, especially above, covered with low blunt tubercles; under 

 parts with soft tubercles; lower jaw with numerous cirri, some of them branched, nearly equaling eye in 

 length; numerous smaller cirri on upper part of head and anterior part of body. Fins well developed, 

 dorsal spines long, ending in filaments; soft dorsal higher than spinous portion; anal rays somewhat 

 enlarged; pectoral very large, nearly reaching beginning of anal. 



Besides this large specimen the collection contains 4 smaller ones, as follows; One 1.8 inches long, 

 dredged at station 4270, Litnik Bay; one 2.25 inches long, dredged at station 4281, Chignik Bay; one 2.6 

 inches long, dredged at station 4279, Alilak Bay; one 3 inches long dredged at station 4293. 



Originally described Ijy Bean (1891), a.s Heniitripterus marmoratus, from .\lbatross station 2855, off 

 Sitkalidak Island. Recorded by Gilbert (1895) under the same name from stations 3224, 3257, 3258, and 

 3311 in Bering Sea, north of Unalaska Island. 



163. Hemitripterus cavifrons Lockington. 



\\"c ha\c in the collection a single specimen 8.5 inches long, collected by the Albatross at Petro- 

 paulski. June 20, 1903. Recorded by Bean (1882) from Kodiak as Jlemitripteriis americaniis. 



164. Synchirus gilli Hean. 



One specimen 1.5 inches long picked off an anemone at Quaranline Dock, Port Townsend, June 

 27, 1903. 



Dorsal ix-20; anal 20. Xo s])iny tubercles on lateral line; no series of spiny scales along dorsal 

 base. 



