832 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



This small specimen taken in a rock pool on Waadda 

 Island, Neah Bay. Length 2 inches. 



A second specimen, about 5 inches long, is in the Muse- 

 um of the California Academy of Sciences. It was col- 

 lected off San Francisco by Mr. H. D. Dunn. In this 

 specimen, the dorsal rays are VI— 27; anal 25; pectoral 

 30; caudal 15; teeth blunt. Flesh firm; form and color 

 of the young specimens above described. The species 

 is named for Mrs. Flora Hartley Greene, Assistant Cu- 

 rator of the Museum of Leland Stanford Jr. University. 



In the Museum of the California Academy is the only 

 specimen we have ever seen of the rare Neolijyaris muco- 

 sus (Ayres), likewise obtained at San Francisco by Mr. H. 

 D. Dunn. We here present a description and figure of 

 this specimen (No. 360) : 



Neoliparis mucosus (Ayres). Plate xcv. 



Head 4 in length; depth 4^3 ; dorsal VI— 26; anal 26; 

 pectoral 29; caudal 12; eye 7 in head; snout 3; ventral 

 disk i}o ; pectoral if ; longest dorsal ray 2; highest anal 

 ray 2 : caudal 1 % . 



Bod)' not greatly elongate, rather robust, compressed 

 posteriorly, holding its width well past middle of body; 

 head short and thick, broader than body, % longer than 

 broad, its length if times its depth; mouth small, trun- 

 cate, its cleft almost entirely anterior, scarcely extending 

 laterally; end of maxillary buried under the skin, barely 

 reaching to eye; nostrils not ending in tubes; lower jaw 

 slightly the shorter; teeth sharp, tricuspid, the middle 

 .cusp much the highest and longest, arranged in nine ob- 

 lique series in both jaws, becoming more and more oblique 

 toward the sides; interorbital space moderately wide, 

 about 3^ m head, a little convex; gill-slit not extending 

 below upper edge of pectoral, its length about i]4 times 

 eye and 3 in ventral disk. 



