2122 Bulletin 4.7, United States National Museum. 



The following is Garman's description of a specimen which was 10 inches 

 in length : 



Head 4 in total length; depth over 4. D. 41 (41 to 44). A. 33 (32 

 to 35); pectoral 38 (35 to 38); caudal 12; vertebrae 46. Body elongate, 

 rather less inflated anteriorly than the other Liparids, greatly compressed 

 posteriorly. With the exception of the disk the appearance is very much 

 the same as that of the Cottoids. Total length 2| times the distance from 

 snout to vent. Head moderately broad, depressed anteriorly, slightly 

 convex in transverse section through the frontal region; snout broad, 

 blunt, rounded, convex, nearly 4 times the diameter of the eye, \ of the 

 length of the head. Mouth wide, maxilla extending behind a vertical 

 from the anterior border of the eye ; upper lip complete, lower separated 

 for only about \ the distance from the angle of the mouth to the middle. 

 Teeth small, tricuspid, with slender, somewhat compressed bases, cusps 

 compressed to sharp edges, outer cusp turned outward so as to give an 

 inflated appearance at the top, arranged in about 72 rows, counting length- 

 wise on each jaw, or 10 rows transversely, from outer to inner. Pharyn- 

 geal teeth simple, in 2 bunches of 8 or 10 rows at the esophagus on the 

 roof of the mouth, and below these on the floor in 2 smaller elongate 

 groups. Nostrils small, tubes short or absent, posterior between the ante- 

 rior halves of the eyes, anterior in front of these about 1 diameter of the 

 orbit, and twice the same distance from each other. Eye small, less than 

 \ of head. Gills 3. Gill opening a vertical slit, extending downward a 

 short distance on 1 or 2 rays only of the base of the pectoral (not so wide 

 as in L.pulchellus). Skin thin, loose. Backward from the vent the form 

 is much compressed, the thickness being nearly of the height, and both 

 lateral and dorsal outlines taper regularly to the caudal. Dorsal, anal, 

 and caudal fins confluent, anal extending farther on the caudal, i. e., 

 more than -J- the length of the latter; dorsal commencing above the gill 

 opening, at a distance from the snout that is contained in the total length 

 without the caudal 3| times ; anal beginning a trifle in advance of the 

 mid length, excluding the caudal; pectoral broad, not reaching the anal, 

 upper portion rounded, lower fringed, a shallow indentation between the 

 two portions; caudal subtruncate, rounded, with rays more than -J- as 

 long as the head; ventral disk small, longer than broad, situated its 

 length from the lips, occupying nearly of the distance from the snout to 

 the first ray of the anal, or about of the total length. Color dark brown, 

 irregularly marked with whitish or grayish ; a series of 5 or 6 spots, each 

 as large as the eye, along the middle of the flank ; below these, near the 

 lower edge, there are indications of 4 or 5 whitish blotches, resembling 

 transverse bands; dorsal, anal, and caudal with irregular cloudings and 

 blotches of darker and of lighter; base of pectoral with a couple of large 

 blotches of light grayish, balance of the fin freckled with light color; 

 head dark, somewhat reddened. Entire length 10 inches. (Garrnan.) 

 North Pacific; common south to Unalaska; the original types above de- 

 scribed were collected by Messrs. Pierce and Smith at Saghalien, Channel 

 of Tartary; our specimens collected by the Albatross in Bristol Bay. Dr. 

 Bean's types of Liparis gibbm came from Plover Bay, Siberia; others ara 



