FISHES FROM PORT LUDLOW, WASHINGTON. 561 



Body moderately elongate, not produced at nape; 

 mouth rather large, the maxillary extending to below 

 middle of eye; jaws subequal; teeth tricuspid, arranged in 

 about 10 oblique series in each jaw ; nostrils ending in short 

 wide tubes; gill-openings wider than in any other known 

 JYeoltparis, commencing a distance above pectoral about 

 equal to the diameter of eye, ending about opposite the 

 fourteenth ray; ventral disk a little longer than wide, its 

 distance from chin equal to one and a half its longest 

 diameter, its posterior edge about the same distance from 

 front of anal; vent nearer anal than ventral disk, its dis- 

 tance from anal equal to half ventral disk. Origin of 

 spinous dorsal at the vertical from midway between vent 

 and ventral disk; dorsal scarcely joined to caudal, anal 

 very slightly; front of anal nearer chin than base of 

 caudal by a distance equal to ventral disk ; pectoral rather 

 short and wide, reaching to opposite front of anal, the 

 lower lobe very narrow and long, much longer than upper 

 lobe, but not reaching so far posteriorly on account of 

 the oblique position of the fin ; tip of lower lobe reach- 

 ing to vent; length of caudal if in head. 



Color dusky, darker above, sides with five punctula- 

 tions, belly and under parts of head except chin white; 

 lips dusky; dorsals and anal darker than body; pectoral 

 duskv at base, the lower lobe dark; caudal crossed with 

 wavy dark lines. 



This species differs from the other species in this genus 

 in having a wider gill-opening, and in minor characters. 



The single type specimen was taken with the dredge, 

 in the vicinity of Port Ludlow ; it is 2% inches in length. 

 It bears the number 5044 on the register of the Leland 

 Stanford Jr. Universit}' collection. 



36. Liparis dennyi Jordan & Starks. 

 One specimen dredged. 



