104 NEW FISHES FROM PACIFIC COAST GILBERT. 



Snout one-fourth bead; maxillary If; eye, 4f to 5. Head 3 in length. 

 Depth 31 m head. D. XVIII, 32; A. II, 30. Length U inches. 



Teeth in a villiforui baud in upper jaw, the outer series slightly larger. 

 In lower jaw in a single series laterally, widening into a patch ante- 

 riorly, the outer enlarged. A few teeth only on vomer; palatines with 

 a long and rather broad patch similar to those in jaws. 



Dorsal fin beginning on the nape in advance of middle of opercle ; 

 the fin is uniformly low, extending the whole length of back, the pos- 

 terior ray joined by membrane with the caudal; the spines and rays 

 are similar in appearance, flexible and simple, none of the soft rays 

 branched. The spines are more slender, and show no joints, the artic- 

 ulations being present in small number on all the soft rays. The high- 

 est ray is less than diameter of orbit. 



Anal and caudal rays similar to those of soft dorsal. Caudal short, 

 rounded. Origin of anal midway between tip of snout and end of cau- 

 dal fin, its first two rays spinous. Ventrals under opercular margin, of 

 one spine and two well developed rays, nearly one-half as long as head. 

 Pectorals narrow, of apparently unbrauched rays, about half as long as 

 head. 



Color: Light olivaceous, with eleven vertical dark blotches on sides, 

 most of which divide to form on middle of sides double vertical bars. 

 Top and sides of head with dark cloudings, and with numerous black 

 specks of varying size. Middle of sides and base of dorsal with numer- 

 ous pearly dots nearly as large as pupil. Branchiostegal membrane 

 black posteriorly. The lateral bars are extended to base of dorsal, the 

 anterior ones usually forming conspicuous black blotches which extend 

 well up on the fin. Other fins unmarked. 



Two specimens Irom Station 3005, in 21 fathoms. 



67. Lycodes porifer sp. nov. 



Body very slender, the depth 14 in length; head 5|. Head much 

 contracted opposite orbits, the snout expanded, as in Lymdopsis pacifi- 

 ens. Mouth modeiate, the maxillary reaching vertical from front of 

 pupil, 3i in head; eye, 5f; suout, 3| ; interorbital widtb, one-third 

 eye. 



Teeth in front of premaxillaries in two series, merging into one later- 

 ally, the outer scries anteriorly somewhat enlarged. Teeth in front of 

 mandible in a broad baud, narrowing laterally to a single series, none 

 of them enlarged. Vomer and palatines with single series. 



Head with two series of large and very conspicuous elongate pores, 

 one series on mandible and subopercle, the second parallel with it on 

 level of suout. 



Gill openings wide, extending forwards beyond preopercular margin, 

 the width of isthmus less than one-fourth length of slit. 



Distance from origin of dorsal to tip of snout, 4^ in length. Median 

 dorsal rays simply forked near basCj those posteriorly in both dorsal 



