Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America, 



1895 



heavy, slightly more thau \ orbit, with a terminal tooth, and 3 up- 

 wardly directed processes; 2 blunt spines behind eye, and another at 

 end of occipital ridge ; 3 preopercular spines below the main one ; no 

 distinct spines on opercle or shoulder; a spine at lower angle of sub- 

 opercle; conspicuous, palmate tentacles on nasal spines and above and 

 behind eye ; besides these, a number of simple or divided filaments on eye- 

 ball, occiput, preorbital, maxillary, preopercle, and along lateral line, the 

 latter mostly in groups of 3 to 5; plates on side as in related species, 36 to 

 38 along lateral line, 32 in upper dorsal series; the dorsal series" becoming 

 single behind dorsal fin, double elsewhere, beginning between third and 

 fourth dorsal spines ; no plates in axil ; none of the dorsal spines filamen- 

 tous, the middle ones the longest, the soft rays still higher ; dorsal fins 

 wholly separate; veutrals small, about | diameter of orbit; pectorals 

 short, about \ head. Color olivaceous above, with about 4 irregular 

 black bars; white below; middle of sides black, with larger or smaller 

 roundish white spots; lips black, crossed by narrow white streaks; 

 branchiostegal membranes blackish; veutrals white, other fins all crossed 

 with oblique or vertical black bars ; spinous dorsal largely black ante- 

 riorly and at tips of posterior spines ; pectorals largely black on basal 

 portion of lower rays; barbels white, except the supraocular, which are 

 black. Length 51 inches. Off southern California, in rather deep water. 

 ( Gilbert. ) (Jimhriatus, fringed. ) 

 Icelinus fimhriatm, Gilbert, Proc. V. S. Xat. Mns. 1890, S7, off Santa Barbara Islands, at 



Albatross Stations 2893 and 2975, in 145 and 36 fathoms. (Type, No. 43087. Coll. 



Gilbert.) 



2270. 1( ELIMIS Ot'ULATUS, Gilbert. 



Head long, 2| ; depth 5i ; eye 3^ in head ; snout 33. D. X, 15 ; A, 14 ; lat- 

 eral line 39. Body elongate, tapering rapidly backward to the very slen- 

 der caudal peduncle, whose least depth is 2| in its length; lower profile 

 straight; head sharp anteriorly, the occipital ridge blunt, tbe included 

 space gently concave, not pit-like; eye very large; interorbital spac*-. very 

 narrow, slightly concave posteriorly, with a median ridge in front, very 

 strongly expanding over front of eye, its width f pupil ; mouth large, ex- 

 tending beyond vertical from pupil, 2} in head; teeth in rather narrow 

 ' bands in jaws and on vomer and palatines; preopercular spine rather 

 small, in the single specimen known, bifid at tip and with 2 strong 

 antler-like processes directed upward, the number varying in all known 

 species, and probably normally greater thau 2 in this species; below 

 this, a weak spinous projection directed backward, and 2 stronger ones 

 downward and forward; a spinous point at lower angle of subopercle, 

 none on occiput, shoulder, or opercle: branchiostegal membranes, gill 

 rakers, and armature of side as usual, the dorsal series of plates unu- 

 sually well developed, extending from opposite second dorsal spine to 

 beyond second dorsal, where the series becomes single, those of the two 

 sides closely approximated; no scattered plates behind pectorals; an 

 elongate, simple supraorbital flap, a filament in connection with nasal 

 spine, 2 on occipital ridge, and 1 on maxillary; a few filauients on plates 



