1934 Bulletin 4.7, United States National Museum. 



fourth body marking, however, is continued forward, forming a margin 

 for the upper posterior part of the soft dorsal; ground color of the pec- 

 toral a grayish brown; on this ground color the upper portion of the fin, 

 on its anterior surface, has several bands of milky white bordered with 

 sienna brown ; the lower part of the anterior surface mottled with nearly 

 linear markings of sienna brown bordered with milky white; the mark- 

 ings of the posterior surface of the pectoral corresponding in the main 

 with those of the anterior surface, but the tips of the membrane between 

 many of the rays are milky white; ventrals streaked and spotted with 

 sienna brown and milky white on both surfaces, the membrane close to the 

 third ray having a regular alternation of these brown and white spots; 

 anal grayish brown sparsely mottled, with spots similar to those 011 the 

 ventrals; peritoneum silvery white. The length of the intestine is equal 

 to the distance from the tip of the snout to the end of the anal fin. The 

 genital papilla is short, about equal to the opening of the vent. Pribilof 

 Islands. Known from 1 specimen, length 185 mm. (Bean.) (papiiio, 

 butterfly.) 



Melletes papiiio, BEAN, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1879, 354, St. Paul Island, Pribilof Group 

 (Type, No. 23751, U. S. Nat. Mus. Coll. Henry W. Elliott) ; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synop- 

 sis, 716, 1883. 



725. HEMILEPIDOTUS, Cuvier. 

 (IRISH LORDS.) 



Hemilepidotus, CUVIER, Regne Anira., Ed. 2, Vol. n, 165, 1829 (hemilepidotus). 

 Temnistia, RICHARDSON, Fauna Bor.-Amer., in, 59, 1836 (ventricosus) . 



Body with 2 broad bands of rough scale- like plates on each side, 1 along 

 the side of the back, 1 along the lateral line, the upper bands meeting 

 anteriorily in front of dorsal: scales roundish, their upper and posterior 

 margins free; skin otherwise naked, the naked skin thick and firm; head 

 naked. Villiform teeth on jaws, vomer, and palatines. Top of head 

 rugose, the ridges low, without spines, no spines on supraorbital rim. 

 Braiichiostegals 6. A small slit behind fourth gill ; gill membranes joined 

 to the isthmus anteriorly but forming a rather broad fold across it; pre- 

 opercular spines simple, strong. Dorsal fins connected, the first long, 

 with strong spines, emarginate, the first 3 spines shorter than those which 

 follow; ventrals 1, 4. North Pacific, in shallow water. (?7//z,half; A.e7tidGoro$, 

 scaled.) 



. Throat and belly pure white, or pale yellow. D. Ill, VIII, 21 ; A. 17. JORDANI, 2307. 

 aa. Throat and belly profusely spotted with black. D. Ill, VIII, 19 ; A. 15. 



HEMILEPIDOTUS, 2308. 



2307. HEMILEPIDOTUS JORDANI, Bean. 



(IRISH LORD; YELLOW SCULPIN.) 



lh-a<13; depth 4. D. Ill, VIII, 21; A.17; V.I,4; eye 3 in head ; pectoral 



3;-!; ventral H; third dorsal spine 3; caudal I*. Body rather robust ante- 

 riorly, tapering into a slender caudal peduncle; mouth moderate, the max- 



