Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America. 1909 



Ji llap; tup of head with dermal daps, 1 over anterior margiu of eye, and 

 a group of 2 or 3 over posterior margin; a few shorter ones on najx; 

 mucous pores around ulaudible large; oporcle, upper part of prcopercle, 

 top of head to eyes, and the orbital ring, covered with sharply ctenoid 

 scales, upper j)art of iris with small rough scales, balance of head naked. 

 Lateral line with a row of rough plates; upper half of body completely 

 covered with scales, their anterior edge embedded, coarsely ctenoid on 

 their posterior edge; lower half of body naked. Dorsal spines slender, 

 those in the middle highest, the fin without a notch, the longest spines 

 reaching to front of soft dorsal where fin is depressed, well separated from 

 soft dorsal; first dorsal ray inserted over first anal ray, the fin longer and 

 higher than anal; pectorals somewhat pointed posteriorly, reaching just 

 past the space between dorsals; ventrals inserted behind the base of 

 pectorals a distance equal to the length of snout, tlieir tijis reaching to 

 the front of the anal ; caudal slender, rounded behind. Color olive gray, 

 belly dnsky; back with dark cross shades, irregular in number and size, 

 below lateral line light with small wavy bars running across to within a 

 short distance of anal fin, and fading out; head with cross shades above; 

 a dark bar from eye to side of snout, 1 from eye downward past end of 

 maxillary, another behind it across posterior edge of preopercle; some 

 dark markings on maxillary; lower lip dark; pectorals light with dark 

 wavy lines across them ; dorsal fins dark and mottled ; anal and ventrals 

 varying from white to black; caudal with a dark bar at base, light with 

 irregular dark cross markings. Puget Sound ; 2 specimens dredged, about 

 \\ inches in length, at Point Orchard, near (Seattle, Washington. (Named 

 for Edmond Stephen Meauy, Professor of American History in the Univer- 

 sity of Washington, a leading member of the Young Naturalists' Society 

 of Seattle.) 



Muscarins meanyi, Jordan & Starks, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sol. 1895, 805, pi. 80, Port Orchard, 

 Elliott Bay, Puget Sound. (Type, No. 3127, L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus. Coll. E. C. Starks.) 



716. RASTRINUS, Jordan & Evermann. 

 Rastrinus, Jordan & Evermann, Chock-List Fishes, 437, 1896 (scutiger). 



This genus is near Icdus, from which it differs in the absence of the 

 series of dorsal plates, the back being closely scaly as in Ruscartus. Four 

 preopercular spines, all simple and weak. Head rough; sides below 

 lateral line scaly; upper preopercular spine simj)le or bifurcate; body 

 slender; eye very large. Pacific Ocean., {rastrum, a scraper, from the 

 rough scales.) 



2290. RASTRIXUS SCUTIGKR (Bean). 



Head 3 ; depth 5. D. IX, 19 ; A. 18 ; V. 1, 3 ; lateral line 41 ; eye twice as 

 long as snout and f as long as head ; maxillary extending to below middle 

 of eye, and broadly expanded behind; iuterorbital space extremely nar- 

 row, less than I length of eye ; pectoral extending to above sixth ray of 

 anal ; preoperculum having a weak, simple spine hooked upward, and 3 

 weak ones pointing backward and downward; teeth on vomer and palate ; 



