Jordan and Evermann, — Fishes of North America. 2021 



several blunt protuberances behind ; nape much, depressed, with the base 

 of the dorsal fin rising abruptly above it; mouth small; teeth on jaws, 

 vomer, aud palatines ; preopercle with small, bluntish spines above ; gill 

 membranes broadly united to the isthmus ; a slit behind fourth gill ; bran- 

 chiostegal 6; first dorsal falcate, the spines very flexible, the anterior 

 much elevated, much longer than head, the posterior rapidly shortened; 

 second dorsal long and rather high ; anal fin similar to second dorsal, but 

 shorter and lower; pectorals moderate; ventrals I, 3, well developed, 

 nearly as long as head. Pacific Coast. Small fishes, of singular appear- 

 ance. {vavTT]<i, sailor; ix^v'i, fish; in allusion to the development of the 

 first dorsal fin.) 



2389, >ACT1CHTHYS OCULOFASCIATUS (Girard). 



Head 3i; depth 3|. D. IX, 28; A. 19; P. 14; V. I, 3; scales 44. Maxil- 

 lary reaching to opposite pupil; eye very large, longer than snout; nasal 

 spines conspicuous, curved; maxillary and edge of preopercle with minute 

 cirri; orbit with a branched cirrus, as long as pupil; the narrow inter- 

 orbital space deeply channeled ; supraocular ridge posteriorly with 3 blunt 

 tubercles ; 2 compressed tubercles on each side of first dorsal ; a deep pit 

 at nape, extendiug under origin of first dorsal; spiuous dorsal smooth; 

 rays of soft dorsal and caudal roughened with i>rickles; dorsal spines 

 nearly twice length of head; ventrals f length of head, a little shorter 

 than caudal ; pectorals long. Grayish above ; sides with dark marblmgs 

 and obscure dusky bauds; a very conspicuous black band through eye and 

 across cheek; first dorsal blackish; other fins barred with light and dark; 

 ventrals plain. Length 6 inches. Pacific Coast, Kadiak to San Francisco, 

 chiefly northward ; not rare in Paget Sound ; a most singular-looking fish. 

 {oculu8, eye; fasciatus, banded.) 



Blepsias ocrdofasciatus, Gikard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1857, 202, Fort Steilacoom, 

 Washington. (Coll. Dr. Geo. Suckley. Type, No. 512, U.S. Nat. Mus.) 



Nautichthys oculofasciatus, GiRAED, U. S. Pac. E. E. Surv., x, Fish., 74, 1858 ; Gunther, Cat., 

 II, 157, 1860; Steindachner, Ichth. Beitr., v, 130, with plate; Jordan & Gilbert, Syn- 

 opsis, 727, 1883; Jordan & Starks, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1895, 810. 



752. ULCA, .Jordan & Evermann. 



Ulca, Jordan & Evermann, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1896, 227 (marmoratus). 



The genus is close to Hemitripterus, from which it differs in its shorter 

 first dorsal of about 14 spines, the first 4 of which are not differentiated, 

 the tin therefore^ not emarginate. Alaska. ( Ulke, the Danish-Norwegian 

 name for all Cottidw.) 



2390. ULCA MARMORATA (Bean). 



Head 2t; depth 3f. D. XIV, 12; A. 13; V. I, 3; lateral line (tubes) 44. 

 Eye about as long as snout and i as long as head. Pectorals reaching to 

 the vertical through the anal origin; ventral scarcely longer than eye. 

 Gill membrane free from isthmils. Maxillary reaching beyond end of eye. 

 First dorsal base as long as head Avithout snout, the first 4 si)incs less 



