204 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



LVI; A. 27; P. 20 to 22; C. 22; scales about 200-85. 

 Greatest thickness of body about § its depth; length of 

 caudal peduncle if in its least depth, which is i T 9 g- in head. 

 Eye 5^3 in head; snout 5I/3 ; interorbital space 3; max- 

 illary 2^, ending under front of pupil; mandible 2^, its 

 depth 4I; teeth about |-| on each side; lips, snout, and 

 bones about eye naked; rest of head covered with small 

 scales. Lower jaw with a thick lip slightly fringed on 

 its edge, and with a mesial frenum ; the rounded tip en- 

 tering the profile when the mouth is closed. Three large 

 pores on each ramus of mandible; behind these three 

 others in a line on horizontal limb of preopercle; three on 

 vertical limb; two close together in front of eye; one near 

 the nostrils, so similar to them that there seems to be 

 three nasal openings; seven on suborbitals; four in two 

 rows behind eye; one above eye, and before upper edge 

 of preopercle ; a horizontal row of five along temporal 

 region, the last and largest of all in opercular flap above 

 gill opening; one at vertex; one between vertex and eye 

 and two on each side of nape. Gill-rakers 8 + 20, the 

 longest half eye. No trace of lateral line. Scales small, 

 resembling those of a salmon, covering the membranes of 

 all the fins on the basal two -thirds. Pectoral as long as 

 head, its base 2% in head; longest dorsal spine i| ; cau- 

 dal i T \; longest anal ray i|. Color in spirits uniform 

 dusky, without markings on the body, the belly pale, and 

 the side of the head irregularly blotched with lemon yel- 

 low, apparently bright in life, and brightest about the 

 pores of the head. 



Length of type (in the Provincial Museum at Victoria, 

 B. C), 29 inches. 



From Nanaimo, Vancouver Island. Collector, H. T. 

 Stainton. 



The type, in alcohol, has been partly skinned and 



