410 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1895. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF COTTOID FISHES 



FROM PUGET SOUND. 



BY EDWIN CHAPIN STARKS. 



COTTIDJE. 

 JORDANIA, new genus. 



Allied, but not closely, to Triglops and Chitonotus. 



Body elongate, not greatly compressed ; head moderate, partly 

 scaled, with dermal flaps above. Mouth moderate, with bands of 

 villiform teeth on jaws, vomer and palatines. Body above lateral 

 line closely covered with strongly ctenoid scales ; lower half of 

 body with narrow, parallel plate-like folds of skin, running obliquely 

 downward and backward from lateral line to within *a short distance 

 of anal fin, the posterior edge of each fold finely and sharply ser- 

 rate. Gill-membranes united, free from isthmus; a slit behind last 

 gill. Spinous dorsal with very long base, of about 17 spines, longer 

 than the soft dorsal; anal long; ventrals 1 + 5, inserted behind base 

 of pectorals by a distance equal to snout and half eye. 



I take pleasure in naming this remarkable genus for my teacher 

 in ichthyology, David Starr Jordan. 



Jordania zonope n. sp. 



Head 3? in length of body; depth 5 J. Dorsal xvii-15; Anal 

 22 ; lateral line with 50 pores. Orbit 3f in head ; maxillary 3 J ; 

 longest dorsal spine If; longest dorsal ray 2i; longest anal ray 2i; 

 length of ventrals If; pectorals £ longer than head; caudal 1|-. 



Body rather elongate, compressed posteriorly, not much anteriorly; 

 the back not elevated; dorsal and ventral outlines almost straight 

 from head to caudal peduncle. 



Head not large, profile from front of dorsal to eyes nearly hori- 

 zontal and straight, then abruptly turning steeply downward to end 

 of snout ; lower profile gently curved from chin to ventral fins. 



Mouth small, the maxillary not reaching the vertical from front 

 of orbit; jaws about equal, or the lower slightly projecting; teeth in 



