caught on a halibut trawl in 65 fathoms of water in 

 Lat. 58° 5' N., Long. 149° W., a specimen of this fish 

 which was sent to the Bureau of Fisheries by Edwin 

 Ripley, fish dealer of Seattle, Washington. As the 

 present specimen, which was 33Vs inches in total 

 length differed somewhat from the typical descrip- 

 tion, the following notes upon it are given: Stand- 

 ard length 74cm. Depth, 18.5 cm. Length of caudal 

 peduncle, 4 cm. Depth of caudal peduncle, 7.2 cm. 

 Pectoral rounded, its longest ray 11 cm. Caudal 

 truncate, its longest ray, 11 cm. Pectoral with small 

 scales on base on rays, extending (on middle ray) to 

 6. 5 cm. Dorsal, anal and caudal scaled at base. 

 Dorsal formula, LIV. Anal, 24. Head, 13.7 cm. 

 Eye, 2.4 cm. Snout, 3cm. Max., 4.5 cm. Interor- 

 bital, 5.3 cm. Ground color, gray, lighter beneath, 

 punctulated with black dots. Scales with bluish mar- 

 gins. Dorsal and anal without punctulations. Pec- 

 toral dark at base, with dote, distal portion light gray, 

 margin blackish. Caudal whitish at edges and to- 

 wards end, after margin blackish. Pores of head, 

 white. Forehead grayish. Yellow spot in upper axil 

 of pectoral. B. F. tag no. 9547. 



William C. Kendall, 

 U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



COMPARATIVE NUMBERS OF LIZARDS 

 AND SNAKES ON DESERT. 



Lizards are the most abundant form of desert 

 reptile life. They greatly outnumber the snakes both 

 in point of individuals and species. In the summer 

 of 1913, the writer saw only three species of snakes 

 on the Painted Desert, Arizona. These were the 

 prairie rattlesnake (Crotalus confluentus) , bull snake 

 (Pituophis sayi) , Arizona ribbon snake ( ?) (Eutaen- 

 ia megalops) . 



Among the lizards which are abundant may be 

 mentioned: Bailey's Collared Lizard, Leopard Liz- 

 ard, Racerunners, Swifts and Horned Lizards. 



D wight Franklin, 



New York, N. Y. 



