38 NEW ALASKAN FISHES BEAN. 



Antimora microlepis, new species. 



Two examples of this Antimora were taken August 31, 1888, at a 

 depth of 87G fathoms iu uorth latitude 51° 23', west longitude 130^ 34', 

 station 2860, off Cape St. James, Queen Charlotte Islands. 



The one from which the illastratiou was made is 9^ inches loug to 

 the base of the caudal, 10| inches in total. The eye is nearly equal to 

 the snout in length, and is about one-fourth as loug as the head, wbich 

 is nearly one-fourth of the length, including the caudal. The depth is 

 contained 5| times in the total without caudal, and equals two-thirds 

 of the length of the head. The maxilla reaches nearly to below the 

 end of the eye. The barbel is very slender and about one-half as long 

 as the eye. Gill-rakers short, slender, 4 -f 11 on first arch. 



The longest ray of the first dorsal is about one-half as long as the 

 head. The anal is deeply emarginate ; it begins under the twentieth 

 ray of the second dorsal. The second ray of the ventral is six-sevenths 

 as loug as the head. D. 4 or 5, 51; A. 41. 



The scales are very small and absent from the individuals before me. 

 I count about nine impressions between the origin of the second dorsal 

 and the lateral line, and about one hundred and thirty in the lateral 

 line. 



Color violaceous, deeper on the opercles and branchiostegal mem- 

 brane and on the inside of the month. 



Lycodes brevipes, new species. 



Many specimens were trawled, July 31, 1888, at station 2848, in north 

 latitude 55° 10', west longitude 160° 18', at a depth of 110 fathoms, 

 between Uuga and Nagai islands. 



The eye is as long as the snout and one-quarter as long as the head, 

 which is one-fifth of total length. The depth of body equals one-half 

 length of head. The pectoral equals one-ninth of the total length. Ven- 

 trals minute, scarcely more than one-third length of eve. Head naked. 

 Body covered with large scales except immediately behind pectoral. 

 Dorsal and anal fins minutely scaled. Lateral line single, abruptly de- 

 curved and becoming obsolete over about the tenth anal ray. Dorsal 

 origin nearly over middle of pectoral. Anal origin under the eighteenth 

 ray of the dorsal. D. ca. 85; A. ca. 74; P. 21. 



A narrow light band across the nape and from nine to eleven across 

 the back extending downward about to median line and becoming ob- 

 scure in adults. Dorsal and anal with a narrow dark margin. 



Bothrocara, new genus Lycodidw. 



This genus resembles Maijnea, but the vomer and palate are toothless. 

 Weak teeth iu the jaws in narrow bands. The lower jaw is barely in- 

 cluded. Pseudobranchiai i)resent. Branchiostegals six. (lill-mem- 

 branes narrowly attached to the isthmus. Large i)ores along the jaws 



