108(6). TRIGLID^E. 731 



dark bar at base of pectorals; belly white. Body elongate, the tail very 

 slender, broader than deep; head narrow, the cheeks sub vertical, the 

 snout long and pointed; mouth -shaped, wholly inferior; distance from 

 premaxillaries to tip of nasal spines less than half snout; maxillary 

 and lower side of snout with dense tnfts of long cirri as long as eye; 

 a few on mandible, none on branchiostegal region. Eye large, shorter 

 than snout, 4 in head; orbital rim prominent above only; snout with 

 two spines directed forward, then two larger ones hooked backward, far 

 behind which are two smaller ones close together, directed upward; 

 orbital bones rugose, with a strong supraocular spine only; behind it a 

 sharp occipital ridge on each side, each ending in a single spine; no pit 

 at the occiput, the vertex nearly plane; opercle and preoperele strongly 

 striate, the latter with a ridge and a blunt spine; suborbital very broad, 

 nearly as deep as eye, striate, with a double ridge at its lower margin, 

 the upper ridge with two or three spines; head with about 18 distinct 

 spines in all. Plates of body strongly striate, those above ending in 

 strong spines; breast with about twelve polygonal plates; slight asper- 

 ities at base of pectoral ; ventrals very short, not longer than eye in $ , 

 about half longer than eye in <? ; pectorals large, about reaching anal; 

 caudal peduncle long, about half length of body without head; dorsals 

 high in $ , the two fins closely contiguous. Head 3| ; depth 6. D. IX-7 ; 

 A. 8; Lat. 1. 37; vert. VI + 27. L. 12 inches. Puget Sound to Alaska; 

 common northward. 



(Agon us acipenserinus Tilesius, Me~ra. Acad. St. Petersb. iv, 422, 1813. Agonus acipenseri- 

 nus Giiuiher, ii, 212: Podothecus peristctli us Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, 260: 

 Parayonus atipemerinus Gill, 1. c. 167: Agonus acipenserinus Jordau '& Gilbert, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. iii, 332, 1880.) 



FAMILY CVIII (&). TRIGLIME.* 

 (The Gurnards.} 



Body elongate, usually more or less fusiform, covered with scales or 

 series of bony plates. Head externally bony, usually entirely cuirassed 

 with rough, bony plates, some of which are armed with spines; eyes 

 high; mouth terminal or subinferior; premaxillaries protractile; max- 

 illary without supplemental bone, slipping under the preorbital ; teeth 

 very small, in bands in the jaws, and usually on the vomer and pala- 

 tines, sometimes entirely wanting ; gills 4, a large slit behind the 

 fourth; pseudobranchia3 present ; gill-rakers various; gill-membranes 



* Family 108 (a), Agonidce is included under Triglidcc, in the key to families, on page 

 79. 



