THE FISHES OF BERING SEA. 



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195. Lycodes palearis Gilbert. 

 From Bristol Bay. 



196. Lycodalepis turner! Bean. 



Described from St. MicliJiel and Plover Bay. Found by 

 Mr. Scofield at Point Barrow. Lycodes coccineus Bean, from 

 Big Diomede Island, Bering Strait, is identical with this 

 species, being based on a specimen with some scales on the 

 tail. 



197. Bothrocara mollis Bean. 



Bothrocara mollis Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1890, 38. 

 Maynea hrunnea Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1890, 39. 



One adult and two young, the latter 14 and 17 cm. long, 

 from station 3634, off Bogoslof Island, depth 064 fathoms. 

 Bothrocara mollis was evidently based on the young of May- 

 nea brunnea, in which the vomerine and palatine teeth are 

 absent, or very weakly developed and hidden under the skin. 

 In our young specimens the head is 5J or 5^ in total length, 

 the depth of body about 10. The eye is 3^ in head. The 

 maxillary reaches nearly to below middle of eye. The large 

 mucous cavities are conspicuous along mandible, subocular 

 ring, and top of head. The length of fins is as described 

 for the type of B. mollis. 



Our young specimens are especially valuable for compari- 

 son with Bothrocara pusilla, which apparently does not reach 

 a large size. The differences assigned to distinguish the two 

 species are valid, B. pusilla being more elongate and less 

 compressed, M'ith shorter head, much smaller mouth, and 

 with much less development of the mucous cavities. In B. 

 mollis the gill openings are wider, with narrower isthmus, the 

 anterior end of the cleft being under the posterior margin of 

 eye, and the width of the isthmus less than half diameter of 

 pupil. In B. pusilla the anterior end of gill cleft is under 

 the margin of the preopercle, and the width of isthmus is 

 equal to half the diameter of the orbit, or but slightly less. 



As it is doubtful whether either species belongs to the 

 Antarctic genus Maynea, we retain for the present the genus 

 Bothrocara. 



198. Bothrocara pusilla Bean. 



Recorded from north of Unalaska. 



199. Gymnelis viridis Fabricius. 



Found at Unalaska and Bristol Bay by Dr. Gilbert. Also 

 recorded by Dr. Bean from Shumagin, St. Michael, Unalaska, 

 and Plover Bay. Found by Stejneger on Medni Island. 



200. Gymnelis stigma (Lay and Bennett). 



One specimen obtained by the Albatross at station 3688, 

 near St. Paul Island. Originally described from Kotzebue 

 Bay. 



Bothrocara mollis. OiX Bogoslof 

 Island. Anna L. Browu del. 



