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no. 2075. FISHES FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA— GILBERT. 355 



The pectoral is very low and with nearly horizontal base. The gill- 

 opening is rather wide, but is entirely confined to the suprapectoral 

 region. 



Dorsal, 58; anal, 53; pectoral, 16. 



The original description credits the type-specimen with having but 

 43 rays in the anal fin, but this is obviously a misprint for 53, as the 

 dorsal and anal seem to differ in number by about 5 rays throughout 

 this relationsip. 



PARALIPARIS DEANI Burke. 



Paraliparis deani Burke, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 43, 1913, p. 571; southeast 

 Alaska. 



A single specimen, 92 mm. long to base of caudal, from station 4540, 

 Monterey Bay, depth 389 to 551 fathoms, probably belongs to this 

 species. It agrees in most respects, but has a somewhat smaller eye 

 and greater depth. The presence of prickles on the pectoral fins can 

 not be verified. 



The occiput is arched, somewhat as in P. cephalus, with broad 

 interorbital area and wide blunt snout; the mouth is horizontal, the 

 maxillary extending to below posterior fourth of orbit. Gill-opening 

 wide, extending along the upper half of the pectoral fin. Upper ray 

 of pectoral on a level with middle of orbit. Pectoral without deep 

 notch, the lower three or four rays forming a lengthened lobe, the 

 longest ray reaching beyond the front of the anal; the rays immedi- 

 ately above this lobe are more widely separated than those in the 

 upper part of fin. 



Length of head, twenty-two hundredths of total length without 

 caudal; greatest width of head, 13; greatest depth at occiput, 19; 

 width of mouth from angle to angle, 10; distance from tip of snout to 

 end of maxillary, 11.5; to base of lowest pectoral ray, 13; to vent, 15.5; 

 length of snout, 7; diameter of eye, 5; interorbital width, 14. 



Dorsal, 59; anal, 49; pectoral, 16. General color light, the abdomen 

 and eye blackish. 



PARALIPARIS ALBESCENS, new species. 



Plate 18, fig. 13. 



Type-specimen. — Cat. No. 75816, U.S.N .M., a female with well- 

 developed ova, 63 mm. long, from station 4515, Monterey Bay, 

 198 to 495 fathoms. 



Not closely related to any other species, the head, body, and fins 

 uniformly translucent or whitish, the gill-slit wide, extending to 

 opposite tenth or eleventh pectoral ray, the upper ray of pectoral fin 

 on level of middle of eye, the fin many-rayed, short, moderately 

 notched, the rays of lower lobe all widely exserted, the longest 

 equaling those of the upper lobe. 



Length of head twenty-four one-hundredths of total length without 

 caudal; width of head behind orbits, 15.5; depth at occiput, 21; 



