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BULLETIN OF THE BUREALT OF FISHERIES. 



169. Occa dodecaedron (Tile.siui5). 



Recorded by Nelson (1887) from Unalaklik and by (iill)ert (1895), as Brachyopsis ihxlecnedrus. from 

 Bristol Bay at stations 3239, 3240, 3242, and 3248. 



Fig. 01.— Occa dodecaedron (Tilcsius). 

 170. Pallasina barbata iSteiudacliner). 



Twelve specimens, 2.25 to 4 inches long, seined in Funter Bay; one, 4.75 inches long, seined in 

 Kilisut Harbor; two, 3.8 and 5 inches long, seined in Cleyeland Passage; all collected by the Albatross 

 in 1903. 



These specimens might just as well l>e called P. ait. exceiit for the 3 or more rows of plates (some- 

 times 2) on median line in fiont of ventrals. P. aix is said to have but 2 and the neighlioring plates small. 

 These specimens have 2 or 3. and the other plates small or laig;e. The barbel is short, in barbala it 

 should be long. 



Recorded as Siphagoniis barbata (Bean 1882) from Port Midgi'ave, Yakutat Bay. I'nalaska; Port 

 Clarence. Albatross stations 3239, 3240, 3242 to 3245, and 3258, all in Bristol Bay (Gilliert 1893). 

 Iliuliuk, Unalaska (Turner 1886). Port Clarence (Scofield 1897). 



Fig. 02.— Pallasina barbata (Strpindachncr). 



171. Pallasina aix Starks. 



Recordeil fmni Chignik Bay (Scolield 189!)). 



172. Podothecus acipenserinus (Tilesius). 



Thirteen specimens, 2 to 5.5 inches, no label, but probably from Alaska; ten, 3 to 8.5 inches long, 

 collected by the Albatross at stations 3698, 3600, and at Port Ludlow; twenty-five, 4.5 to 8 inches long, 

 collected by the Albatross in 1903 at stations 4270 to 4272, 4276, and 4296; also at Marrowstone Point, 

 and seined at Quarantine Station; one specimen taken at Yes Bay by the Albatross in 1905. 



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Fig. 93.— Podothecus acipenserinus (Tilesius). 



In most of the specimens the plates on caudal peduncle have spines, which is contrary to cmi-ent 

 descriptions. The color also is different in our specimens; in most of them the Ijlack streaks between 

 plates are alisent : the 3 black bars on caudal peduncle and the one under anterior part of soft dorsal 

 are not noted in current descriptions. 



