FISHES OF PUGET SOUND. 803 



and sharply serrate. 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 pecto- 

 rals. 



Jordania zonope Starks. 



Head 354 in length of body; depth 5^2 : dorsal XYII- 

 15; anal 22; lateral line 50; orbit 3^ in head: maxilla- 

 ry 3/5 : longest dorsal spine if; longest dorsal ray 2! ; 

 longest anal ray 2^ ; length of ventrals \V A ; pectorals ^ 

 longer than head: caudal 1 '. 



Body rather elongate, compressed posteriorly, not much 

 anteriorly, the back not elevated; dorsal and ventral out- 

 lines almost straight from head to caudal peduncle. 



Head not large, profile from front of dorsal to eyes 

 nearly horizontal 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 villiform bands on jaws, vomer, and 

 palatines; eyes large, set high in head, a little shorter 

 than snout; interorbital space deeply concave, half as 

 wide as eye; a slip of skin, half as long as the diameter 

 of the eye, over the anterior edge of each eye, and a 

 longer one over the posterior edge ; a few minute fleshy 

 slips on nape; nasal spines long and sharp, somewhat 

 curved back; spine on preopercle simple, hooked up, a 

 minute spine above it, and a blunt spine below; posterior 

 end of interopercle prominent, forming a blunt spine; 

 opercle produced posteriorly in a flap, which lies in a 

 shallow groove in the shoulder girdle; no opercular spine- 

 gill -membranes united, but not joined to the isthmus; a 

 distinct slit behind fourth gill arch; branchiostegals 5. 



