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round dark olive spots; belly unspotted; thoracic region pink; spinous 

 dorsal blackish, its middle part with many roundish pale spots, forming 

 a continuous stripe, besides smaller black spots; caudal and pectoral 

 with vertical bars ol dark and pale spots; soft dorsal and anal spotted; 

 ventrals pinkish, little spotted; jaws and branchiostegals yellowish, 

 more or less mottled; axil pale, with round dark spots. Body robust, 

 little compressed; interorbital space not very deeply concave; a pit at 

 the vertex in front of occipital ridges, much broader than long. Monk 

 very broad, little oblique, the lower jaw included ; maxillary 2 in head, 

 reaching posterior margin of orbit. Gill-rakers very short, broad, com- 

 pressed. Cranial spines bluutish, high; preocular, supraocular, post- 

 ocular, tympanic, occipital, nuchal, and exoceipital present, besides a 

 bifid spine between the exoceipital and orbit ; upper preopercuiar spine 

 longest; opercular spines not large; suprascapular spines 3, knife-like; 

 suborbital region without pit, but with a bony carina on which are 

 2 or 3 bluutish spines. Ilead naked; breast, and region before pec- 

 torals, covered with small imbedded scales (with exception of opercular 

 Hap); anterior margin of preorbitals, margin of preopercle, and nostrils 

 with skinny flaps; 1 or 2 rather small flaps above eye, besides several 

 smaller ones on various parts of the head. Scales small, nowhere dis- 

 tinctly ctenoid; nearly every scale on the upper parts of body with a 

 small membranous flap. Dorsal spines high, higher than the soft rays, 

 the longest 24- in head; second anal spine longest and much the-strong- 

 est, 3 in head; pectoral very broad, short, and rounded, its lower rays 

 proem-rent, its tip reaching beyond the ventrals to vent, its base more 

 than ^ head, its length 3.} in body; caudal rounded. Peritoneum white. 

 lle;idL'.; : depth, 1 *. D.XII. 10; A.III,5; Lat, 1.30 (tubes); 50-60 scales. 

 L. 12 inches. Coast of California, from Point Concepcion southward; 

 very abundant. 



.'ml. I'm,. Ar:,,l. \ ; ,i. Sri. Phila. 1834, 14r>; Grd. U. S. I'.-ir. I,'. K. Sm-v. l-'isli. 77, pi. 

 17: <S'i7>*/(///< /< i/tillnltis Gill, in Stn-rt's Bulletin, U. S. .Vit. Mu>. \ ii, 1-77, (i % 2.) 



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Olive brown, excessively marbled with silvery and reddish; fins pro- 

 fusely variegated; caudal barred with brown and silvery; a dark blotch 

 on spiuous dorsal, between the Gth and 7th spines; axil black, with 

 white spots. l'.od\ short and thick. Head irregular in I'orm, with nu- 

 merous grooves and pits, and many lle>hy slips; a large deep pit below 

 the eye, between it and the front of suborbital stay; supraocular flap at 



