FISHES OF PUGET SOUND. 815 



The posterior end of the prominent ridge, which runs 

 backward from the superior orbital rim on each side, is 

 formed by the epiotic process. It ends in the form of a 

 long "occipital spine;" almost directly under it is the 

 short parotic process. 



The post-temporal is short, wide and flat; its upper end 

 is attached to the inner side of the epiotic spine, and for 

 the whole length of its anterior edge, to the skull between 

 the epiotic and parotic processes. From its lower inner 

 surface it sends a wide thin bone, which is firmly fastened 

 to the base of the skull. It bears a backward projecting 

 spine on its lower end, inside of which the supra-clavicle 

 is attached. 



Actinosts large, wide and thin, without an opening 

 between them. Subopercle absent; preopercle large, 

 sending a spine backwards; opercle triangular on its 

 lower inner angle, the interopercle is developed and 

 strongly coossified with it; it sends a slender process for- 

 ward under the preopercle ; a projection downward from 

 the posterior end of the articular; suborbital wide, thin 

 and concavo-convex, its convex surface outwards. Skull 

 without basal chamber; vertebrae 10+14. 



Family AGONID./E. 



84. Aspidophoroides inermis Giinther. 



The type from Vancouver Island recorded by Giinther. 



85. Bothragonus swani (Steindachner). 



Known only from the type taken near Port Townsend. 



86. Pallasina barbata (Steindachner). 

 Taken at Port Angeles by the Albatross. 



This species is the type of the genus Pallasina Cramer, 

 distinguished from Brachyofsis by the long, Syngnathus- 

 like body, and by the presence of a long barbel at the 



