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form tooth in both jaws and on the vomer, none on the palatines; upper 

 preopercular sjiinc short, strong, with bifurcated tip: suborbital stay 

 narrow; gill-membranes ])artly free from the isthmus, over which they 

 form a broad fold; a slit behind fourth gill. First dorsal with its upper 

 mar-in somewhat S -shaped, the lirst two spines elongate, the middle 

 ones of nearly equal length, and the posterior ones rapidly shortened; 

 ventrals I, 3. Pacific. (As?<;, smooth; *"?, Cottus.) 



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Olivaceous, shaded with light blue, and reticulated with brownish- 

 red. the latter color predominating on the head; sides with four broad, 

 oblique, brownish-red bars, the first three running from dorsal forwards 

 and downwards, the fourth from caudal peduncle backwards to base of 

 caudal; abdomen orange brown, with pale spots; caudal orange brown, 

 with yellow bars near the tip; fins with bars and spots of dark brown- 

 ish-red; breast and ventrals whitish; three dark blotches at base of 

 pectorals; spiuous dorsal with oblique dark streaks; a dark blotch on 

 each eye ;tbovc, and a light streak forwards and downwards from eye. 

 Body elongate, fusiform, the caudal peduncle slender: profile of snout 

 decurved; maxillary reaching front of orbit ; tlnve small cirri at the end 

 of each maxillary; preoperculur margin with several similar cirri; 

 opercle and shoulder-girdle without spines; upper preopercular spine a^ 

 long as pupil. Top of head smooth; supraorbital ridges little elevated; 

 nasal spines distant from tip of snout. Spinous dorsal elevated in front, 

 the first two rays much longer than the others, nearly two-thirds length 

 of head; soft dorsal and anal lins rather long; pectorals reaching past 

 front of anal; ventrals to vent. Head 3i ; depth 44 ; eye largo, 4i in 

 head. I). 1X-1 7; A. 15; V. 1, .". L. 10 inches. Santa Barbara Islands; 

 extremely local. 



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I'.ody ralher elongate, the tail very slender. Head small and com- 

 pressed. Month moderate; villilbrm teeth on jausand vomer, none on 

 the palatines; preopercular spines small, simple. Head prickly, but 

 without scales. A low of enlarged plate like scales along the lateral 

 line: a similar row above it at the base of the dorsal fin : the space be- 

 tween these densely prickly: lower half of body crossed at short inter- 

 vals by transverse undulating folds of skin, the edge of the fold with 



