1900 Bulletin tf , United States National Museum. 



in A. notospilotus, but extending lower on sides of head, covering sub- 

 orbital and postorbital regions, as far down as suborbital stay. Scales 

 on body cup-shaped, arranged, as in A. notospilotus, in a broad band along 

 each side of back ; each band about 9 scales in breadth ; this band extend- 

 ing much farther back than in A. notospilotus, meeting its fellow across 

 the back of tail behind dorsal fin; a small, but distinct, pore-like slit 

 behind the fourth gill (wholly wanting in A. notospilotus}. Fins low, the 

 dorsal much lower than in A. notospilotus; the longest dorsal spine about 

 equal to snout, 3 in head (in the female), probably higher in males; veii- 

 trals about reaching vent.; pectorals past front of anal. Color in spirits, 

 essentially as in A. notospilotus, but paler; olivaceous, the head mottled 

 and barred with blackish; back with about 4 saddle-like black bars; base 

 of caudal blackish ; fins all, except the ventrals, which are pale (probably 

 dusky in males), with cross bars and series of spots ; a black blotch bor- 

 dered by orange between first and second dorsal spines, and another 

 between seventh and eighth. Length 5 inches. Puget Sound; locally 

 common, (fcnestralis, with a window, from the small gill pore.) 



Artedius fenestralis, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proe. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 577, Puget Sound 

 (Type, No. 27206, U. S. Nat. Mus. Coll. Jordan & Gilbert) ; JORDAN & STARRS, Proc. 

 Cal. Ac. Sci. 1895, 807. 



711. ARCHISTES, Jordan & Gilbert, new genus. 



Archistes, JORDAN & GILBERT, Fishes of Bering Sea, in Kept. Fur Seal Investigations for 

 1896, 1897 MS. (plumarius). 



Head and body compressed ; lateral line armed with a series of spinous 

 plates; a series of smaller similar plates along base of dorsal widening 

 anteriorly so as to fill the space between dorsal and lateral line, but not 

 extending around front of dorsal to connect with band on the other side. 

 Head naked; gill membranes broadly united, free from the isthmus; no 

 slit or pore behind last gill ; no spines above eye or on vertex ; a single 

 gently curved preopercular spine, not forked and without cusps or proc- 

 esses; a large fringed supraorbital flap; small flaps and cirri on occiput, 

 sides of head, and along lateral line; teeth on jaws, vomer, and palatines; 

 dorsals continuous, notched between spinous and soft portions; ventrals 

 I, 3, without setaj; vent far forward, immediately behind base of ventral 

 fins, the male with a long anal papilla. (apxo$, vent; alluding to its 

 unusual position.) 



2282. ARCHISTES PLUMARIUS, Jordan & Gilbert. 



Head 3i in length ; depth 4 ; eye 3| in head. D. X, 23 ; A. 18 ; P. 15 or 16. 

 Anterior portion of head compressed and narrow, with vertical sides, the 

 width at angle of mouth little greater than diameter of orbit. From the 

 ocular region the head widens rapidly backward and downward to pre- 

 opercular spine, leaving the occiput narrow; greatest width of head and 

 body near preopercular spine, slightly less than depth of head at occiput; 



