1922 Bulletin 4.7, United States National Museum. 



eye, 2 minute pairs along sides of occiput, 1 on suborbital stay, 1 on 

 maxillary, and a few on plates of lateral line; no nasal cirri, none along 

 edge of preopercle; upper preopercnlar spine gently curved upward, 

 without cusps or processes; below it 3 short spines, the first directed 

 backward, the second vertically downward, the third, somewhat longer, 

 directed downward and forward. Eyes small, the diameter equaling 

 length of snout, i length of head measured to end of opercular flap; 

 iuterorbital width equaling diameter of pupil. Straight portion of lateral 

 line longer than the obliquely placed anterior portion, which is not 

 strongly curved ; plates of lateral line strongly spinous on their upper free 

 edges, and of similar and nearly equal size throughout ; dorsal band con- 

 tinued on to back of caudal peduncle, where it is continuous with the 

 band of the opposite side, the lower plates of the band in a definite 

 lengthwise series and as large as those of lateral line or slightly larger, 

 the other plates of the band decreasing rapidly in size toward base of fin, 

 where they are minute. They are partially arranged in series running 

 obliquely upward and backward from the lower larger plates to the bases 

 of the dorsal rays, on which they extend for at least % the height of ray. 

 Dorsal spines with minute spinous plates extending almost or quite to 

 their tips. The snout, top of head, nape, suborbital ring, opercles, and 

 cheek above the suborbital stay covered with minute plates similar to 

 the upper part of dorsal band, with which the invested area on top of 

 head is continuous; sides below lateral line naked except for a few plates 

 behind axil. Dorsals divided to the base, the last spine extremely short, 

 its membrane joining extreme base of the first soft ray; spinous dorsal 

 low, of slender weak spines, the longest ray \ length of head ; longest soft 

 ray 2^ in head; anal beginning under third ray of soft dorsal, ending 

 under its fourteenth ray; caudal peduncle slender, its least width \ its 

 length; pectorals broad and short, all simple, the lower thickened with 

 moderately incised membranes, the eighth to the tenth rays the longest, 

 extending beyond vertical from origin of anal; ventrals not reaching 

 vent, 2^ in head. Ground color light grayish olive; lower part of sides 

 regularly reticulated with narrow dusky lines; a dusky cross bar from 

 base of posterior dorsal spines and forward to axil ; a second much broader 

 bar from front of soft dorsal, ending irregularly below where it merges 

 into the reticulating lines ; a third broad bar, less clearly defined, under 

 posterior portion of soft dorsal; a conspicuous broad V-shaped blotch at 

 base of caudal, the apex directed forward ; a faint dark streak from eye 

 forward to tip of mandible, and a cross bar behind eyes, continued faintly 

 on to cheek ; spinous dorsal with a small dark spot on anterior and 1 on 

 posterior spines; rays of soft dorsal and caudal with dusky markings so 

 arranged as to form fine cross bars ; terminal half of pectorals finely cross- 

 barred, the proximal half plain, with a large dusky blotch on extreme 

 base; anal very faintly barred; ventrals unmarked. Bering Sea, off 

 Robben Island; one specimen 52 mm. long, dredged in 10 fathoms. 

 (Named for Dr. Leonhard Stejneger, Curator of Eeptiles in the U. S. 

 National Museum.) 



Stelgistrum stejnegeri, JORDAN & GILBERT, Fishes Bering Sea, in Kept. Fur Seal Invest, 

 for 1896, 1897 MS., Robben Island (Coll. Albatross.) 



