Jordan aud Evermann. — Fishes of North America. 2681 



Anterior nostril with a sliort tube, and a narrow flap arising from its 

 inner edge. Interorbital width 3J to 5 in orbit, slightly concave, the lower 

 ridge much stronger and higher than the upper, scaled posteriorly. Eye 

 large, the orbit 3^ to 3| in head. Gill rakers rather long and slender, 

 coarsely dentate on inner margin, distant, 10 or 11 on anterior limb of 

 arch. Scales large, in regular series, appearing cycloid, but the edges 

 very minutely sj)inous; lateral line gently rising on anterior \, but 

 Avithout curve ; fifty vertical series of scales, with as many pores in lat- 

 eral line; 13 to 15 horizontal series above lateral line. Dorsal beginning 

 immediately behind jiosterior nostril of blind side, ending so as to leave 

 caudal peduncle tree for a distance equaling I diameter of eye; ventrals 

 long, reaching beyond origin of anal; pectoral very long and slender, 

 normally with 9 rays, the longest ray on colored side longer than head, 

 about \ length of body. Color light olive brown, irregularly flecked with 

 slaty, aud with numerous bright yellow spots broadly ocellated with 

 brownish black, a series of these usually on lateral line, and 2 others 

 halfway between it and the dorsal and ventral outlines, respectively, 

 those of the latter series fonuing pairs; fins not conspicuously marked, 

 the pectorals sometimes with faint broad dusky cross bars. I?oth coasts of 

 Lower California. In external appearance the species closely resembles 

 C. so7-didus, to which, however, it is not closely related, diflering in num- 

 ber of scales, fin rays, and vertebne, and in the size aud number of gill 

 rakers. (Gilbert.) Many specimens, from Alhafross Stations 3039, 3043, 

 and 3044, in 47 to 74 fathoms. (qavOoi, yellow; driy/iia, spot.) 



Citharichthyg xanthostigma, Gilbert, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus. 1890, 120, Gulf of California, 

 west coast of Lower California, and Magdalena Bay. (Type, No. 44408. Coll. 

 Dr. Gilbert.) 



3051. CITHARICHTHYS STIGlttiEUS, Jordan & Gilbert. 



Head 3| in length without caudal; depth 2-, ; dorsal 87; anal 68; scales 

 54 (pores). Body moderately deep, the 2 profiles regularly and equally 

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

 caudal peduncle very short, not high, its length (from end of last verte- 

 bra to vertical from last anal ray) about ^, its height, which is 3- length 

 of head; caudal lin appearing sessile. Mouth moderate, very oblique, 

 the maxillary reaching beyond front of pupil, 2f in head; teeth in a 

 single series, subequal in the two jaws, rather long, very slender and nu- 

 merous, decreasing toward angle of mouth ; about 40 teeth in the upper 

 jaw, and 30 in the lower on blind side. Eyes large, close together, sepa- 

 rated by a narrow, sharp, scaleless ridge; the upper eye largest, slightly 

 behind the lower, with considerable vertical range; diameter of upper 

 eye 3J in head. Snout and lower jaw scaleless; end, of maxillary aud 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 3 rays being somewhat turned to blind side; the fin low, the highest 

 at beginning of its posterior tliird, the longest ray nearly + length of head ; 

 anal spine present, very small; caudal rounded, about e(i nailing length 

 of head ; pectoral of colored side If in head, of blind side, 2^, Scales 

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