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lines running across the rays; anal red, with dark brown bars as wide as 

 the interspaces running obliquely downward and forward; ventrals light 

 brown, (mtgator, a fop.) 



Bryostemma niKjator, Jordan & Williams, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1895, 843, pi. 101, Seattle, 

 Washington. (Colh Young Nat. Soc. Type, No. 3134, L. S. Jr. TJniv.) 



902. APODICHTHYS, Girard, 



Apodichthys, GIRABD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. PIiila.1854, 150 (jlavidus). 



Body elongate, compressed, covered with very small scales ; no lateral 

 line; snout short; mouth moderate, oblique; teeth in the jaws moderate, 

 stouter anteriorly; vomer with teeth; gill membranes united, free from 

 the isthmus. Dorsal fin long, low, even, of spines only; anal lin similar, 

 preceded by a very large pen-shaped spine channeled along its anterior 

 surface and hidden in a pouch of skin ; caudal fin short, connected with 

 dorsal and anal ; no ventral fins; pectoral fins moderate; intestinal canal 

 short, without pyloric Cicca. Small, bright-colored fishes of the Pacific, 

 living among rocks near shore. {ixTtovi, without feet ; /j6i) j, fish ; in allu- 

 sion to the want of ventral fins.) 



a. Color various, green, olive, or scarlet; sides of head without silvery band; depth 7 



to 8 in length ; head 9. flavidus, 2766. 



b. General color olivaceous. var.yfacidits, 2766a. 



bb. General color scarlet. var. sanguineus, 2766b. 



bbb. General color gras.s green. var. virescens, 2766c. 



aa. Color reddish; a bluish silvery stripe on side of head; depth 9 to 10 in length; 



head 7. univiitatus, 2767. 



2766. APODKHTHTS FLAVIDUS, Girard. 



Head 9^; depth 7i. D. XCIII ; A. I, 40. Head .short; mouth very 

 oblique; maxillary reaching pupil; upper jaw with a series of conical 

 teeth, behind which is a patch of smaller teeth ; sides of mandible with 

 conical teeth in a single series, forming a patch in front; vomer with 3 

 conical teeth; palatines toothless; nape equidistant l)etween front of dor- 

 sal and pupil. Anal spine very large, f length of head, shaped like a pen, 

 deeply excavated on its anterior side, and very convex behind, very thin, 

 flexible, and with sharp edges, entirely included in a pouch of skin ; pec- 

 toral fins about f, length of head. Color orange, varying with the sur- 

 roundings to intense grass-green (var. virescens), yellowish brown (var. 

 flavidus), crimson and dark purple (var. sanguineus)-, a few light round 

 spots along axis of body posteriorly; a narrow black bar downward and 

 backward from eye; a shorter, less distinct bar from upper margin of 

 orbit backward to occiput; anal fin obliquely barred with brownish. 

 Length 18 inches. Pacific coast, Vancouver Island to the Santa Barbara 

 Islands; abundant; usually found below low tide mark. The following 

 color notes are from specimens taken in Puget Sound belonging to the 

 green form (var. virescens), the larger 10 inches in length, the smaller 3 

 inches. The large one is a bright grass-green, mottled with light gray; 

 a series of blended white spots, as large as eye, along the axis of body 



