1888 Bulletin ^7, United States N'ational Museum. 



row band of prickles in axil of pectorals, behind tliis a wide naked area 

 extending downward and backward to behind base of ventrals, the 2 

 areas separated by a narrow mesial band of prickles on belly ; similar 

 prickles cover contiuuonsly the occipnt, the opercles, and the portion of 

 cheeks and preopercles which lie above suborbital stay; a narrow length- 

 wise band of i>rickles on cheek below suborbital stay, the lower side of 

 head together with snout and inteorbital region otherwise naked; a series 

 of 34 broad plates along each side of dorsal fins, extending from the nape to 

 the middle of caudal peduncle ; each plate transversely angulated, the outer 

 half directed outward and downward, the inner half n<>arly horizon- 

 tal inward, the angle bearing a very strong, compressed, backwardly 

 hooked spine; the dorsal fins thus occupy the middleof a flat dorsal strip, 

 bounded by the 2 series of spines ; a number of enlarged spine-like prickles 

 accompany the lateral line, each pore of which lies in the axil of one such ; 

 anteriorly, these prickles are arranged somewhat definitely in pairs, 2 to 

 each pore, but this arrangement is lost posteriorly ; a series of enlarged 

 prickles is placed convexly at base of caudal fin; the upper unmodified 

 rays of the pectoral fin, and all rays of dorsal and caudal fins, accompa- 

 nied by series of prickles; other fins and thickened jiectoral rays smooth. 

 Eody without filaments. No barbels at chin nor on mandible elsewhere. 

 A slender tentacle, iialmated at tip, above posterior portion of orbit, its 

 length slightly less than diameter of pupil. A slender branched tentacle 

 near base of middle and lowermost preopercular spines, and a simple one 

 at an equal distance below them ; a similar broadly i)almated tentacle on 

 cheek, behind end of maxillary, lost on 1 side in our specimen, but the 

 scar apparent. Dorsal fins separate, the membrane from last spine join- 

 ing base of first soft ray; spines very slender, the sixth the longest, 2^ in 

 head, very slightly shorter than the soft rays ; base of spinous dorsal 1^ in 

 head, of soft dorsal 2\ in length of head and body; front of anal under 

 twelfth dorsal spine, the longest ray \ head, the length of the base slightly 

 less than \ head and body; caudal rounded, If in head; the lower 6 pec- 

 toral rays simple, thickened, exserted, the membranes very deeply incised, 

 the upper 3 longer than the branched rays above, the longest extending 

 to opposite fifth anal ray ; ventrals broad, the inner rays shorter than the 

 outer, which extend to opposite second anal ray. Color in life, light 

 olivaceous, with 4 brown cross bands, 1 under spinous dorsal, 3 under soft 

 dorsal; a series of 9 roundish dusky spots along middle of sides below 

 lateral line; back and sides with small golden spots and streaks; a dis- 

 tinct series of round blue spots above lateral line, and some scattered 

 blue spots and blotches on back and head; iris green and dusky; sjjinous 

 dorsal light green, crossed by narrow yellow lines; soft dorsal translu- 

 cent, shaded with reddish and bluish; ventrals translucent, posteriorly 

 greenish, with white pigment; pectorals translucent, the rays crossed with 

 reddish and greenish bars, which are little conspicuous; supraorbital cir- 

 rus green ; preopercular cirri white. Coast of Oregon (Gilbert) ; 1 speci- 

 men, 1(55 mm. long, dredged in 75 fathoms, (Named for Dr. Wilbur Wilson 

 Thoburn, in recognition of his work on the Cottidw.) 



raricelinus thoburni, Gilbert, Eept. U. S. Fish Coiimi. 1893 (1896), 432, pi. 30, coast of 

 Oregon, in 75 fathoms, at Albatross Station 3350. (Coll. Gilbert.) 



