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more or less soiled. Two or three dark shades from eye across cheek. 

 A dnsky shade along maxillary. Opercle dusky, its flap with a spot 

 of pale pink or orange. Each side of back above the lateral line with 

 5 or roundish pale blotches, of a light pink color, more or less tinged 

 with orange. One of these just below base of fourth dorsal spine; two 

 under base of eighth dorsal spine, the uppermost faint, the lower large, 

 near the lateral line, and somewhat further back than the upper one. 

 A large blotch under the last dorsal spine ; a large one under last rays 

 of soft dorsal, with sometimes a smaller one in front of it. These spots 

 are rather less sharply defined and more yellowish than in constellatus, 

 rosaceus, &c. They correspond in position nearly to those found in the 

 latter species. Fins all pale orange, more or less shaded with blackish. 

 Peritoneum black. In one specimen the orange shade is less intense 

 than in the other. 



Two specimens (31140, 31141), 10 and 11 inches in length, were taken 

 by Andrea Larco at Santa Eosa Island, near Santa Barbara, and were 

 forwarded by hiin to the National Museum. 



The sj)ecies is well distinguished from all its luimerous congeners on 

 our Pacific coast. It probably most nearly approaches S. constellatus, 

 among the species thus far known. 



2. Citharichthys stigmaeus, sp. uov. (31099.) 



Body moderately deep, the two profiles regularly and equally arched ; 

 the snout short, gibbous, projecting a little beyond the outline; caudal 

 peduncle very short, not high, its length (from end of last vertebra to 

 vertical from last anal ray) about two-fifths its height, which is three- 

 sevenths length of head ; caudal fin appearing sessile. Mouth moderate, 

 very oblique, the maxillary reaching slightly beyond front of pupil, 2'^ 

 in head; teeth in a single series, subequal in the two jaws, rather long, 

 very slender and numerous, decreasing towards angle of mouth ; about 

 40 teeth in the upper jaw, and 30 in the lower, on blind side. Eyes large, 

 close together, separated by a narrow, sharp, scaleless ridge ; the upper 

 eye largest, slightly behind the lower, with considerable vertical range; 

 diameter of upper eye, o^ in head. Snout andloAver jaw scaleless ; end 

 of maxillary and rest of head scaled. Gill-rakers moderate, not strong, 

 about 9 on anterior limb. 



Dorsal fin beginning on the vertical from front of upper eye, the first 

 three rays being somewhat turned to blind side ; the fin low, highest 

 at beginning of its posterior third, the longest ray nearly half length of 

 head. Anal spine present, very small. Caudal rounded, about equaling 

 length of head. Pectoral of colored side If in head, of blind side 2^. 



Scales moderate, those forming the lateral line persistent, the others 

 deciduous ; those on colored side with ciliated margins, on blind side 

 smooth ; lateral line without anterior curve ; the scales are crowded 

 and smaller anteriorly. 



Head 3f in length, without caudal ; depth 2|. D. 87 ; A. 68 ; L. lat. 

 54 (pores). 



