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101. Liparis pulchellus (Ayres). 
A single specimen dredged in Bristol Bay, Alaska, station 3269; depth 16 fathoms, 
102. Liparis cyclopus Giinther. 
Two specimens from Bristol Bay, Alaska (station 3230; depth, 3} fathoms), are 
referred to this species. Garman places L. cyclopus in the synonymy of L. calliodon, 
but our specimens are undoubtedly distinct from the species described by Garman 
under this name (Discoboli, p. 54, pl. v1, figs. 1-5) from a specimen said to originate 
from San Francisco. Our Alaska specimens are much more slender, with wide, 
depressed head, without nuchal elevation, with the dorsal fin beginning posteriorly 
slightly in front of the vertical from the vent, and the disk separated from the vent 
by a distance less than its own diameter. The mouth is also much smaller, not at all 
oblique, its angle in advance of vertical from front of eye. Dorsal 33; anal 30; 
caudal 12; pectoral 29, Gill-slit extending downward to opposite the upper three or 
four pectoral rays. Dorsal and anal fins not joined to caudal. Disk 2} in head. 
103. Liparis agassizii Putnam. 
Several young examples were dredged in Bristol Bay, Alaska; stations 3241, 3247 
and 3301; depths 14 and 17 fathoms. 
104. Liparis cyclostigma sp. nov. 
A robust, compressed species, with broad, gently convex head, the nape not ele- 
vated, a comparatively wide gill-opening, a single continuous dorsal fin, the dorsal 
and anal broadly joined to the caudal, and the coloration peculiar. Profile gently 
and evenly declining from nape to end of premaxillary processes, thence descending 
more steeply to tip of snout. Interorbital space very wide, equaling length of snout 
and half of eye, 2? in head. Distance from tip of snout to front of exposed portion 
of eye 2,°5 in head. 
Head 32 in length. Mouth terminal, broad and transverse with but little lateral 
cleft, the two jaws equal, the lower not included. The maxillary is entirely bound 
down by skin of head, reaching vertieal from front of pupil, the angle of mouth in 
advance of eye. Bands of teeth extremely broad, the teeth very small, all tricuspid, 
the outer ones minute, those toward inner margin of jaw increasing in size. The 
anterior series in each jaw are nearly transverse, the lateral series becoming succes- 
sively more and more oblique, the uppermost nearly parallel with the jaw; about 20 
series in each side of lower jaw, 30 on each side of upper jaw. The width of band 
in upper jaw equals two-thirds diameter of exposed portion of eve, which is one- 
fourth length of snout, two-sevenths interorbital width. Nostrils without tube. 
Lower lip distinct on lateral three-fifths or two-thirds of mandible. Gill-opening ~ 
wide, extending downward to opposite base of fifteenth pectoral ray, the length of 
the slit 22 in head. Disk large, oblong, its longitudinal diameter 2 in head, equaling 
its distance from anus and twice the distance of the latter from base of first anal 
ray. Pyloric ceca 28. 
Pectoral very broad, inserted low, its upper margin on a level with premaxillaries, 
much below the eye. The rays decrease but little in length from the first to the 
twentieth, and form a very broad evenly rounded lobe. Below the twentieth the 
rays decrease gently and have exserted tips, until the shortest ray equals two-thirds 
the longest upper ray. There follow three or four somewhat longer rays, the tips 
still further exserted, then four or five rays which decrease rapidly, the shortest 
anterior one equaling diameter of eye. Longest pectoral ray 1} in head. Base of 
first dorsal ray in a vertical passing through axil of pectoral. Longest dorsal ray 
2 in head, the last rays rapidly shortened so as to produce a notch at union with 
the caudal, the last ray less than two-thirds the longest, the dorsal membrane join- 
ing at end of basal third of caudal. The anal fin is equal in height to the dorsal, but 
the last rays are but little shortened, so that no notch exists posteriorly. It forms a 
much broader union with the caudal, which it joins at the end of its basal two- 
thirds. Caudal broad, rounded, the outer rays four-fifths the length of middle rays, 
