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downward to the third or fourth ray of pectoral. Dorsal 

 fin low, continuous, not joined to caudal, beginning slightly 

 before anal, on a vertical with vent; vent midway between 

 edge of ventral disk and front of anal. Pectoral fin 

 emarginate, the upper lobe i| in head, the lower 2, the 

 shortest intervening rays 3. Anal long and low, barely 

 joined to caudal. Caudal i}i in head. 



Color olivaceous, darker above; body and pectoral fin 

 finely speckled with olive brown; fins dotted; bases of 

 the fins paler than their tips; belly white. 



Two specimens 4^ inches long, in excellent condition, 

 taken in Elliot Bay, near Seattle, were received from the 

 Young Naturalists' Society. They are numbered 3126 

 in the register of the Leland Stanford Jr. University Mu- 

 seum. This species, not been previously recognized 

 since its original description, is recorded by Dr. Gilbert 

 from Unalaska. 



98. Liparis dennyi Jordan and Starks, n. sp. Plate 

 xcviii. 



Head 3I in length of body; depth 4^ ; dorsal 39; anal 

 30; pectoral 36; caudal 12; eye 8 in head; maxillary 2-g- ; 

 snout 23^ ; gill-opening 2| ; upper pectoral lobe ^ ; lower 

 lobe 1% ; intervening rays 2]/^ ; ventral disk 2^ ; high- 

 est dorsal rays 2| ; highest anal rays 2|; caudal rays i^. 



Body moderately elongate, much compressed posteri- 

 orly, slightly so anteriorly; head moderate, the cheeks 

 and nape prominent. Mouth wide, with little lateral cleft; 

 maxillary extending to below the anterior margin of eye, 

 its end covered with the skin of the head; the lower jaw 

 slightly the longer; the teeth tricuspid, those on the inner 

 part of jaw largest, arranged in about 14 series in each 

 jaw; series nearly transverse on middle of jaw, becoming 

 more and more oblique towards the sides, where they are 

 nearly parallel with the sides of the jaws ; interorbital 



