. Report of the Commissioner - United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. ls plain. Fins otherwise finely mottled or indistinctly barred. Some or all ofthese dark markings may be absent. Four specimens, the largest 47 mm. long, from tide pools at Unalaska, are the typesof the species. Three others were taken in Departure Bay, Vancouver Island. 77. Paricelinus thoburni sp. nov. (Plate 30.) A single specimen, mm. long, was dredged at station 3350, off the coast ofOregon, at a depth of 75 fathoms. Our specimen agrees in most of its characters with 7*. hopliticus Eigenmann, butdiffers fr
. Report of the Commissioner - United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. ls plain. Fins otherwise finely mottled or indistinctly barred. Some or all ofthese dark markings may be absent. Four specimens, the largest 47 mm. long, from tide pools at Unalaska, are the typesof the species. Three others were taken in Departure Bay, Vancouver Island. 77. Paricelinus thoburni sp. nov. (Plate 30.) A single specimen, mm. long, was dredged at station 3350, off the coast ofOregon, at a depth of 75 fathoms. Our specimen agrees in most of its characters with 7*. hopliticus Eigenmann, butdiffers from the description of the latter (The West American Scientist, October,1889, p. 131) in the following important res])ects: P. thohurni does not possess apair of long barbels at the chin, but has others, not mentioned, above eye and alongmargin of preopercle. The suborbital stay does not possess two strong upwardlydirected spines behind eye, but is thickly beset with a number of crowded smaller Report U. S F. C. 1893. Ichthyological Collections. (To face page 432.) Plate ICHTHYOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS OF THE ALBATROSS. 433 spines. The maxillary is contained 3 times, not 3i, iu head. A distinct slit existsbehind fourth gill-arch. The origin of the spinous dorsal is above the middle ofopercle, not over its posterior portion. The lower portion of pectoral fin has its raysvery much exserted and somewhat produced, apparently not the case iu P. is a detailed description of our type: Diagnosis: Elongate, with slender spinous head. Brauchiostegal membranesbroadly united, free from the isthmus. Preopercular spine simple; a distinct slitbehind last gill-arch. Teeth iu jaws and on vomer and palatines. A palmate supra-orbital cirrus; others present on preopercle. Nasal spine strong. Body thicklybeset with short, stift villiform prickles. A series of plates along each side of baseof dorsals, bearing each a strong spine. Plates of lateral line spinous. Both dorsalsand th
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