FISHES OF PUGET SOUND. 847 



116. Xiphistes ulvae Jordan & Starks, n. gen. and n. sp. 

 Plate cii. 



Head 8 in length of body; depth 10; dorsal LXXIV; 

 anal III, 48; eye 5 in head; maxillary 234 ; pectoral 3^. 



Body eel -shaped as in the related species X. chirus; 

 head short; mouth small, oblique, maxillary extending to 

 below posterior margin of eye; jaws subequal, with ca- 

 nine teeth; 4 enlarged canines in front of lower jaw; 

 teeth in upper jaw gradually enlarged from behind for- 

 wards; eye moderate, equal to length of snout; interor- 

 bital space prominent, sharply convex, narrower than 

 width of eye; nape not constricted. 



Five mucous canals radiating downwards and back- 

 wards from eye, not reaching to edge of preopercle ; the 

 branches running upwards from upper lateral line ending 

 on the membrane of dorsal, the lower lateral line not 

 connected with the abdominal line. Lateral line other- 

 wise as in A'iphistcs chirus. Origin of dorsal at a dis- 

 tance behind nape equal to distance from nape to middle 

 of eye; the fin posteriorly barely connecting with caudal, 

 anal with 3 spines, its origin about a head's length nearer 

 snout than base of caudal, connected with caudal poste- 

 riorly; pectorals equal in length to snout and half eye, 

 slightly shorter than caudal; caudal rounded, fan-shaped. 



Color olive -green above, very bright green below; 

 sides along middle and lateral line posteriorly, with con- 

 spicuous white spots, half as large as pupil, each with a 

 black spot before and behind it; a black streak from'tip 

 of snout, through eye, to nape, a streak starting from eye 

 behind quickly fading out; dorsal darker than body, un- 

 marked; the anterior third of anal green without mark- 

 ings, behind this, faint cross-bars of brown appear, these 

 grow broader and darker posteriorly; caudal olive green 

 with a light bar across base; pectorals green without 

 markings. 



