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1050. I. iiic^arephalus (Lock.) J. &. G. 



Color pale olivaceous with darker cross-bars; fins in the male, black- 

 isli: ventrals ;uid anal whitish, unmarked; eye dusky above. Body 

 fusiform; head long; eyes large, separated by a very narrow, slightly 

 concave interorbital space; mouth large, the maxillary extending to 

 posterior border of eye; preopercle with a strong process armed 

 with 3 or -4 upward-directed and 1 horizontal point; below this 3 other 

 spines; two or three spines close behind eye on each side; two occipital 

 ridges, ending in spines, the space between them concave; top of head, 

 interocular space, snout, upper part of opercle, and a narrow belt close 

 under the eye covered with rough scales; lateral line with a series of 

 quadrate plates, their upper and posterior edges strongly serrate, the 

 lower and anterior edges imbedded; above these the back is evenly cov- 

 ered with smaller scales, the lower and anterior part of each scale im- 

 bedded, and the upper edge strongly toothed; 5 to 8 rows of these 

 scales; a narrow naked area at base of dorsal. Dorsal spines slender, 







the first usually longer than head, reaching past front of soft dorsal 

 when depressed; the second and third spines progressively shortened ; 

 the 4th higher than third, the membrane between third and fourth deeply 

 einarginate; second dorsal high; pectorals reaching past front of anal; 

 ventrals to vent; anal papilla very large; no conspicuous cirri. Head 

 2$; depth 5. D. III,VII-15; A. 15; V. I, 3; Lat. 1. 38. L. C inches. 

 Off San Francisco, in deep water, locally abundant; possibly a variety 

 of the next. 



(Chitonotus mct/accplialus Lockiugton, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas. 1881, 141.) 



1051. I. pugettensis (Steind.)J. &G. 



Coloration of the preceding. Body slender, stouter than in I. met/n- 

 cfjitinluK ; head shorter and broader; the mouth also shorter, the maxil- 

 lary not reaching posterior margin of eye; interorbital space extremely 



narrow, narrouer than in f. megoc&phalus } squamation and armature of 

 head and l>ody preei>el\ as in T. mcgnccjtlmhin. Dorsal lower than in J. 

 iiLi/iicr/il/nliis, the lirst dorsal less deeply notched; the first spine lit t le 

 higher than the second, its tip not reaching to the end of the fin, its total 

 length less than half that of tin head; soft dorsal high, higher than first 

 dorsal spine. Head.'); <l<-pth -1$. I). Ill, VII-15; A. 15; V. I, 3; Lat 1. 

 .".7. L. II inches. Puget Sound. 



(.Ir/nliiin IHKJI 'Iti nxia IStrimlarliiifr, Ichtb. Bcitriige, v, 133.) 



