105. CHIRID/E HEXAGRAMMUS. 643 



into a single median line, which extends to the branchiostegal fold. 

 F.adii Br. VI; D. XIX-25; C. 37, the interspaces scaled; the margin 

 nearlj' truncate; A. 20; V. I, 5; P. 18. Head scaled above and on 

 sides, except on interoperculum and muzzle. Scales ctenoid, 13-94-34. 

 The scales are elongate, and nearly truncate distally ; on the sides they 

 are in oblique series, but near the dorsal fin from 3-5 rows exhibit 

 scales superposed vertically. General color pale-orange, with ill- 

 defined blackish shade on the sides, and 7 quadrate-blackish spots at 

 the base of the dorsal fin; below, bright yellow; dorsal and caudal fin 

 yellowish at base, margins with a broad blackish band; 3 black spots 

 on the middle of the first, and 4 on the middle of the second dorsal fin ; 

 anal yellow, with 7 blackish blotches extending anteriorly across the 

 rays; pectoral yellow, with brown spots on the rays and a black one at 

 the base in front; eye with 5 blackish radii, diverging, two anteriorly, 

 one upward and backward, one backward, and one downward and back- 

 ward. Total length 14 inches; length of head entering it 4.33 times; 

 depth of body 4 times in the same; eye 5 times in head, 1.G6 times in 

 muzzle, and 1.25 times in interorbital width." Coast of Alaska. (Cope.) 



(Cliirus ordinatus Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. Phila. 1873.) 



Dorsal fin with the spines separated from the soft rays by a deep notch. (Hexa- 



gr animus.) 

 ft. Cheeks partly naked. 



c. Scales all strongly ctenoid. 



999. H. asper Steller. 



Light or dark greenish, much mottled with blackish, rusty -red, and 

 light blue, the dark color in the form of fine marbliugs, the reddish in 

 the form of broad washes, and the bluish as roundish spots; two light- 

 bluish bands downward and forward from eye, separated by a black- 

 edged brown area; a whitish streak and various reticulate markings 

 on cheeks and opercles; pectorals and dorsal mottled with brown spots; 

 a dark humeral spot, distinct in the young; lower fins black in the 

 male, pale in the female; flesh often tinged with green. Form rather 

 slender. Maxillary reaching past front of eye, about to pupil. No 

 teeth on palatines. Scales all strongly ctenoid, except on sides of 

 head; region about suborbital stay and lower part of the opercles 

 naked or nearly so; lower part of cheeks scaled in varying degree, 

 generally more naked in large examples. A lateral line from occiput 

 close to dorsal fin, ceasing near middle of spinous dorsal; one from 

 occiput along back to base of caudal; one from angle of opercle to 

 middle of base of caudal; one from just below the pectoral fin, undu- 



