722 . 
Depth 6 l/2 (to end of broken tail); head 4 3/4, width 2 l/S. 
Snout to eye 3 3/4 in head; eye 5 l/8, 1 2/5 in snout, 1 1/5 in 
interorbital; orbit 3 4/5 in head, sebequal with snout or interor¬ 
bital; preoral length short, 2 l/s in orbit; maxillary reaches 2/3 
in eye, length fron front end 2 l/2 in head; mandibular barbel 4 1/2 
in orbit; teeth in villiform bands in jaws, 4 or 5 irregular rows 
transversely; interorbital 4 l/8 in head, low and nearly level. 
Gill rakers 2+10 short spinescent tubercles on second arch, l/2 
of gill filaments, which 2 2/3 in orbit* 
* 
Scales (pockets) 145 in lateral line to end of broken tail; 
14 above, 23? belo*.v, 58? predorsal of viiich 30 forward till opposite 
hind pupil edge; Scales with 5 parallel apical spinuliferous keels, 
last spinules not extended beyond hind scale edge; circuli fine, 
complete. 
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er, front edge with row of close set antrorse denticles, length 1 
2/5 in head; interdorsal space 7 2/5; A. 87 (to end of broken tail); 
pectoral rays I, 8, fin 1 3/4. 
Uniformly brown. Iris dark gray. Branchiostegal region, breast 
and belly more or less dark or blackish brown. Inside mouth dark- 
drab. Inside gill opening blackish brown. Fins more or less dark 
brown, especially paired ones. 
Queen Charlotte Islands. 
Known by its short mental barbel and very short preoral, the large 
mouth appearing more or less subterminal inforiorly, also short 
interdorsal space. It is a. dark, obscurely colored species. 
U. S. N. M., No. 48626. Lat. 52°29'30 M N., long. 132°30’1N. 
Albatross Collection. 
- Length 
D. II, 14_90 (to end of broken tail) 
