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the lower row of lateral scutes, separating the upper darker from the 

 lower paler color of the anterior part of the trunk; breast and forward 

 part of belly pale; concavity of hinder part of belly behind front of 

 anal, and of caudal peduncle, darkened with line punctulations, which 

 are more or less gathered into roundish blotches, forming a monili- 

 form series, and not extending fully to the margins of the concavity. 



Here described from a single specimen, the type. No. 20165, Stanford 

 University, b\ inches long, taken on the coast of Echigo, Japan, by 

 Masao Nakamura. Four specimens of a similar fish, 3 to -i inches long, 

 and with the barbel about equaling the length of the head, taken b}^ 

 Messrs. Jordan and Snyder at Aomori, Japan, in 1901, p<)ssi])ly belong to 

 this species. The species here descri])ed is well distinguished from 

 Pallasina harbata"- (Steindachner) by its slenderer body, its extremely 

 elongated barbel, and its fewer pectoral rays (these being 12 or 13 in 

 /*. larhda.) 



(ypvyyog^ the goat's beard.) 



Family GOBIlDiE. 



3. CHLOEA NAKAMURiE Jordan and Richardson, new species. 



Head 3J; depth 4i; D. VII— 11; A. 11; P. IS; eye -If in head; nose 

 3f; maxillary 2|; interorbital f of e3'e; scales 7o. 



Bod}^ robust, not much compressed, the back elevated, the protile 

 convex behind nape, and the caudal peduncle slender, its depth about 

 4 in head; head pointed, deeper than wide; interorbital space concave; 

 e3'es anterior, directed somewhat upward; mouth very large, the max- 

 illary reaching a vertical from posterior l)order of pupil; tongue broad, 

 bitid; gill membranes united to isthmus at a point two eye-lengths in 

 front of ventrals; gill-rakers on tirst arch 2 + 10, short and thick; 

 pseudobranchia? large. 



Scales small and finely ctenoid; head and breast naked; belly covered 

 with very small, easily displaced scales. 



Dorsal fins separated by a distance equal to diameter of eye, the 

 spinous scarcel}^ higher than the soft dorsal; anal inserted under third 

 ra}" of soft dorsal, length of depressed anal five-sixths of head; caudal 

 rounded posteriorly; pectoral rounded behind, no filaments on its 

 iq^per edge; ventrals reaching one-half the distance from their ])ase 

 to base of anal. 



« Six specimens of PaUashia harbata from Port Clarence, Alaska, 2 from Herendeen 

 Bay, 3 from Chignik Bay, and 4 from Nemuro, Japan, show no noticeable variation 

 in the body proportions, in tlie length of the barbel, or in the number of pectoral 

 rays, the barljel never exceeding in length twice the diameter of the eye. The 

 specimens mentioned inchide both males and females. PaUashia ai.c Starks is dis- 

 tinguished both from the present species and from P. barbala by its much larger 

 eye, which is fully Ij times the diameter of the eye in specimens of the pther two 

 species, and the belly is punctulated more densely and evenly and farther forward. 



