JordcDL and Evcniiaiiii. — Fis/ics of N^orth Avicrica. 1899 



2280. ASTBOLYTES NOTOSPILOTUS (Girard). 



Heacl2|; depth 4f; eye 4f iu head. D.IX, 15; A. 11 or 12; scales about 

 44. Head short and broad, its vertex depressed; nuchal region with a 

 cross ridge, in front of which is a quadrate depression; 2 blunt tubi^'r- 

 cle.s behind each eye, armed at tip with small spines; behind these 2 

 others Avithout spines, on the occipital ridges ; each of these spines with 

 a small cirrus; a small cirrus above posterior part of eye; a minute one 

 on the maxillary; interorbital si)ace deeply concave, the supraocular 

 ridges elevated. Mouth moderate, broad, the maxillary exten<liug to be- 

 yond the pux)il, its length nearly \ that of the head; suborbital stay 

 strong; preopercle with a strong process, bitid at tip, and with 1 or more 

 upward-directed spines; below this 3 blunt serrated processes or mul- 

 tified spines; vertex, temporal i-egion, interorbital space, and opercles 

 covered with small, detached, stellate scales, strongly spinous at their 

 edges ; these smaller than the scales of the dorsal baud. Olivaceous, often 

 tinged with purplish, and much variegated; a black bar at occiput; 

 another from middle of spinous dorsal to the axil; 1 under front of second 

 dorsal extending obliquely forward; 1 under posterior part of second dor- 

 sal ; 1 on caudal peduncle ; bars and interspaces everywhere finely retic- 

 ulated and mottled ; lower parts dusky, with brassy tinge, often with dark 

 reticulations around whitish spots; branchiostegals blackish, with yellow 

 tinge; fins all variegated, the lower fins generally dusky ; a black spot 

 oeellated with orange between first and second dorsal spines, sometimes a 

 duller one between third and fourth; a large black spot between sixth 

 and eighth siiines. Length 10 inches. Coast of California, from Cape 

 Mendocino southward; abundant off Santa Barbara. Here described from 

 specimens from Santa Barbara, (i^giro?, back; 6TCiXooz6'i, spotted.) 



Calycilepidotus lateralis, Atees, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1855, 77 ; not of Gieaed. 



Artedius notospilotvs, Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pfiilai. 1856, 134, Tomales Bay (Types, 



Noa. 329 aud 367. Coll. E. Samuels and Dr. W. O. Ayres) ; Gibard, U. S. Pac. Pv. R. 



Siirv., x, Fishes, 71, 1858; Gunther, Cat., u, 174, 1860. 

 IciIks notospilotus, Jordax & Gilbert, Synopsis, 690, 1883. 



2281. ASTROLYTES FENESTRALIS (Jordan & Gilbert). 



Head 2J; depth 4^; eye 5 in head. D. IX, 17; A. 12; lateral line 30. 

 General form of Astrolytes notospUotua. Body rather robust; head large 

 and broad; lower jaw included; maxillary extending to posterior part of 

 eye, 2i in head; eye rather large, about i broader than the concave inter- 

 orbital space ; nasal spines strong, Avith a conspicuous cirrus behind them ; 

 top of head less depressed and less concave than in A. nutuspUotus, its 

 lateral ridges smooth and covered by skin, without spine-like projec- 

 tions ; no tubercular prominences behind eye ; ijreopercle ending in a short 

 process, which has usually 3 spines at its tip, the 2 uppermost hooked 

 upward; the 3 prominences below this spine small, entire, covered with 

 smooth skin. (In J. vofospiloUis these projections are much larger, and 

 more or less coarsely serrate.) A few small dermal flaps on top and sides 

 of head; head Avith small stellate, nonimbricate scales, arranged much as 



