Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 2125 



middle of rays posteriorly, and covering the base of caudal rays. Color 

 light brown, lighter below, thickly covered with minute brown points, 

 which form spots and mottlings on sides; upper part of head dark, lips 

 spotted with brown; dorsal and anal dark brown, slightly mottled with 

 lighter; pectoral light, with irregular brown spots and bars running across 

 it ; caudal dark brown, mottled at base, 2 light bars crossing it toward its 

 end, leaving a narrow posterior margin of brown. North Pacific, south to 

 Puget Sound; numerous specimens in the Albatross collections from about 

 Unalaska. (Named for Mr. Charles L. Denny, of Seattle, in recognition of 

 his active and intelligent interest in the natural history of Washington.) 



Liparis dennyi, JORDAN & STARKS, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1895, 835, pi. 98, Admiralty Inlet, 

 Puget Sound. (Type, No. 3703, L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus. Coll. Young Naturalists' Society 

 of Seattle.) 



2456. LIPARIS CYCLOSTIGMA, Gilbert. 



Head 3f ; depth 4|. D. 44; A. 34; P. 42; C. 14. A robust, compressed 

 species, ~vith broad, gently convex head, the nape rather elevated, 

 comparatively wide gill opening, a single continuous dorsal fin, the dorsal 

 and anal broadly joined to the caudal, and the coloration peculiar. Pro- 

 file gently and evenly declining from nape to end of premaxillary pro- 

 cesses, thence descending more steeply to tip of snout. Interorbital space 

 very wide, equaling length of snout and - of eye, 2| in head. Distance 

 from tip of snout to front of exposed portion of eye, 2^ in head. Mouth 

 terminal, broad and transverse, with but little lateral cleft, the 2 jaws 

 equal, the lower not included. The maxillary is entirely bound down by 

 skin of head, reaching vertical from front of pupil, the angle of mouth in 

 advance of eye. Bands of teeth extremely broad, the teeth very small, 

 all tricuspid, the outer ones minute, those toward inner margin of jaw 

 increasing in size. The anterior series in each jaw are nearly transverse, 

 the lateral series becoming successively more and more oblique, the 

 uppermost nearly parallel with the jaw; about 20 series in each side of 

 lower jaw, 30 on each side of upper jaw. The width of band in upper 

 jaw equals f- diameter of exposed portion of eye, which is ^ length of 

 snout, f- interorbital width. Nostrils without tube. Lower lip distinct 

 on lateral f or f of mandible. Gill opening wide, extending downward 

 to opposite base of fifteenth pectoral ray, the length of the slit 2f in head. 

 Upper jaw with a series of large pores; lower jaw short, with few pores. 

 Disk large, oblong, its longitudinal diameter 2 in head, equaling its dis- 

 tance from anus and twice distance of latter from base of first anal ray. 

 Pyloric caeca 28. Pectoral very broad, inserted low, its upper margin on 

 a level with premaxillaries, much below the eye ; the rays decrease but little 

 in length from the first to the twentieth, and form a very broad, evenly 

 rounded lobe. Below the twentieth the rays decrease gently and have 

 exerted tips, until the shortest ray equals f the long upper rays. There 

 follow 3 or 4 somewhat longer rays, the tips still further exserted, then 4 

 or 5 rays which decrease rapidly, the shortest anterior one equaling diam- 

 eter of eye; longest pectoral ray^ 1| in head; base of first dorsal ray 

 in a vertical passing through axil of pectoral; longest dorsal ray If in 



