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dinal series. L. 5 inches, liock-pools; from Puget Sound to San Luis 



Obispo: not common. 



(Scorpaniohthys lalcralix Orel. Proc. Ac-nil. Nnt. Sci. Pbiln. 1854, 145: Artediita latcralis 

 Girard, U. S. I 'ao. K. R. Surv. Fish. 70: Artcdiiix lateral!* Giiutlu'r, ii, 174.) 



bl>. Top of brad uneven; iuterorbital area concave. 

 c. llrad \\ith8tellatescalesabove. 



1O47. I. Biotospilotus (Grd.) J. & G. 



Olivaceous, often tinned with purplish, and niueli variegated; a black 

 liar at occiput; another from middle of spinous dorsal to the axil; one 

 uuder front of second dorsal extending obliquely forwards; one under 

 posterior part of second dorsal ; one on caudal peduncle; bars and in- 

 terspaces everywhere finely reticulated and mottled; lower parts dusky, 

 with brassy tinge, often with dark reticulations around whitish spots; 

 brancliiostegals blackish, with yellow tinge; fins all variegated, the 

 lower fins generally dusky; a black spot ocellated with orange between 

 first and second dorsal spines, sometimes a duller one between third 

 .and fourth; a large black spot between sixth and eighth spines. Head 

 short and broad, its vertex depressed; nuchal region with a cross-ridge, 

 in front of which is a quadrate depression; two blunt tubercles behind 

 <-ach eye, armed at tip with small spines; behind these two others with- 

 out spines, on the occipital ridges; each of these spines with a small 

 -cirrus: a small cirrus above posterior part of eye; a minute one on the 

 maxillary; interorbii al space deeply concave, the supraocular ridges 

 elevated. Eye very large, 4rj in head. Mouth moderate, broad, the 

 maxillary extending to beyond the pupil, its length nearly half that <!' 

 the head; snborbital stay strong; preopercle with a strong process, 

 bilid at lip, and with one or more upward-directed spines; below this 

 three blunt serrated processes or mnltilid spines; vertex, temporal re- 

 gion, interorbital space, and opeivles covered with small, detached, 

 siellale scales, strongly spinous at their edges; these smaller t han tin- 

 scales of the dorsal band. Head L ): ,'; depth r, 1 . D. 1X-1."; A. 11 or 

 TJ. L. 10 inches. Northern specimens represent a marked variety, 

 the color paler, the head more scaly, and the edge of the prcopercle 

 without serrated processes. I). 1X-17; A. 12. Pacific, coast ; abun- 

 dant at Santa I'.aibara and in Puget Sound; not round in rock pools. 



' nh/rili /liilntiix Iain-nil* .\\n--i. 1'nir. Cal. Ac:i<l. Sri. l-f>('.. 77: .trlnliiix in>!i<iiilotu8 

 (Jnl. I'rnr. A.-id. Nat. Bet. I'liila. l-.M 1 ., I:M. and U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv. Fish. 71 : Artcdius 



cc. Ilrad williuiit dcvrlii|)-il 



(/. Dpper preoperoalar apine houkrd, bifurcate. (Icclus.) 



