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been recorded from Iliuliuk, Unalaska, and from St. Paul Island (Bean 1882} as Eumicrolremus spinosus. 

 South of Sannak Islands and in Bristol Bay from stations 3213, 3258. and 3274 (Gilbert 1895). Off St. 

 Paul Island (Jordan & Gilbert 1899). 



185. Letlirotremus niuticus Gilliert. 



This species, not taken by recent collectors, was described l>y Gilliert (1895) from stations 3223 and 

 3258, near I'nimak Pass. 



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Fig. 98.— Lethrotremus muticus Gilbert. 



186. Cyclopteroides gyrinops (tarman. 



Recorded from St. Paul Island ((iarinan 1S92) and I)\itrli Ilarlior (.lordan l*c Gill)ert 1899). 



187. Cyclopterichthys ventricosus ( Pallas ). 



No. 02234 and 02298, 8.5 and 7.75 inches long, respectively, collected by Rutter at Karluk in 1903. 

 These 2 specimens show the two different schemes of coloration noted in descriptions. Recorded from 

 St. Paul Island (Kincaid 1899). 



Family 37. L1PARIDID.€. The Sea Snail. 

 188. Neoliparis rutteri Gilbert A Snyder. 



Head 4 in length; depth 4.33; eye 4.6 in head; snout 3; iulerorbital equal to .snout; dor.sal v, 28; 

 anal 26; pectoral 33; caudal 14; branchiostegals fi. 



Body tadpole-shaped, anterior portion to origin of anal rounded, the remainder gi-eatly compressed; 

 dorsal outline gently arched; ventral outline of 2 gentle arches meeting each other at a broad angle at 

 the origin of anal; head small, depressed; snout broadly rounded viewed from above, truncate from 

 the side; mouth narrow, horizontal, with little lateral cleft and mandible barely included; lips rather 

 thin; teeth small, white, tricuspid, in several rows in each jaw; nostrils inconspicuous, anterior with a 

 small tube; several raucous pores on head along ramus of lower jaw and behind eye; gill-slit nan'ow, 

 slightly wider than eye, entirely aliove upper l)ase of pectoral: opercle ending in a soft sharp flap. 



Dorsal fm low, its origin over middleof pectoral, its length about 3.5 timeshead, the fin quite low. the 

 posterior rays longer, margin minutely crenulate, longest ray al)out 2.5 in head; anal similar to dorsal, 

 its origin under about the third or fourth dorsal ray, last ray of anal slightly posterior to last doi-sal ray and 

 both fins slightly united to caudal at the tips of their la.st rays; caudal trunc'ate, long and slender, its 

 length about 1.2 in head; pectorals broad, of 2 loljes, the ujjper broad and rounded, lower narrow, its 



