755 . 
Depth 7 to 8; head 5- 1/2 to 5 3/5, width 2 l/8 to 2 2/3. 
Snout to eye 3 1/2 to 3 4/5 in head; eye 5 l/5 to 5 l/2, 1 2/5 
to 1 l/2 in snout-, 1 2/5 to 1 l/2 in interorbitel; orbit 3 7/8 
s a 
to 4 l/4 in heed, 1 in snout, 1, l/lO to 1 1/5 in interorbital; 
maxillary reaches 3/4 in orbit or to hind orbital edge, length 
from front end 2 2/5 to 2 3/4 in head; mandibular barbel 1 l/4 
to 2 3/5 in eye; teeth in rather course villifom bands, in 6 
to 8 irregular transverse rows; interorbital 3 2/3 to 3 3/4 in 
head, low, very slightly convex. Gill rakers 2+11 low spines- 
cent tubercles on second gill arch, 1/4 of gill filaments which 
1/2 of orbit. 
Scales 148 to end of broken tail; 10 above, 18 below, 60 
predorsal of which 27 forward opposite hind eye edge. Scales 
with 4 to 10 nearly parallel apical spinuliferous ridges, last 
spinules not esctended beyond hind edge of scale; circuli moderate¬ 
ly fine, complete. 
D. II_, 120 or I£, 13_120 to 122, second Bind 1 1 lie ray slender, 
pungent, front edge with series of antrorse serrae, length 1 1/10 
in head;, interdorsal spa.ee 5 to 5 l/3; A. 115 to 122, fin height 4 
1/5 to 4 4/5; pectoral rays I, 20, fin 1 l/2 in head; ventral I, 7 
or I, 8, fin 1 1/8 in head to 1 1/5 times head, first siniple ray 
terminally filamentous. 
Largely uniformly dark brown, where scales have fallen pockets 
all dark or dusky brown. Iris grayish. Gill opening edged black¬ 
ish brown, also blackish inside. Inside mouth brown. Fins all 
darker, dusky or blackish. 
North Facific, Bering Sea. 
