FISHES OF PUGET SOUND. 82 1 



Color in spirits, reddish -brown above, light below: 

 narrow, irregular, transverse dark streaks across back and 

 sides; a longitudinal dark bar along each side of base of 

 both dorsals; a dark streak forward from eye; margin of 

 spinous dorsal blackish ; soft dorsal with a small spot be- 

 hind, a dark spot on pectoral rays near their base and 

 some dark bars behind it across rays ; anal and ventrals 

 colorless; caudal dusky. 



A single specimen collected by Capt. J. G. Blair at 

 Robin Island, about 8 inches in length. 



Related to P. actyenserinus and P. gilberti. It differs 

 from the former in having fewer and shorter barbels, 

 teeth on jaws obsolete, keel and preopercle larger; dorsal 

 ridges without spines posteriorly, and the spines on the 

 preorbital ridge different in shape; from the latter in 

 having the body different in shape, not everywhere deeper 

 than wide, but the reverse posteriorly; anal much shorter 

 and lower; no teeth on jaws, and the spines on preorbital 

 ridge better developed and different in shape. 



Allied to Podothecus is the genus Stelgis Cramer, of 

 which Podothecus vuhus is the type. It is distinguished 

 from Podothecus mainly by the comparative lack of bar- 

 bels and by details of armature. We present a figure of 

 the species drawn from the original type of Stelgis vulsus, 

 the only specimen yet known. (Plate xc.) 

 88. Averruncus emmelane Jordan & Starks, n. gen. and 

 sp. Plate xci. 

 Head from tips of rostral spines 4 in length of body; 

 depth 7^; dorsal VIII or IX-8 ; anal 11; pectoral 14; 

 lateral line 35; orbit 4 in head; snout to tips of rostral 

 spines 3^5 ; maxillary 3^ ; interorbital 6% ; pectoral i-f; 

 second dorsal spine 2f ; third dorsal ray 2% ; longest anal 

 ray 2| ; caudal fin 2. 



Body elongate, subcylindrical, the caudal peduncle long 



