1868 Bidlctin ^7, United States National Museum. 



and prepectoral area with cycloid scales, much less than \ the size of 

 those on sides; scales elsewhere ctenoid; 10 or 11 scales in an ohlique 

 series between lateral line and the one above it; uppermost lateral line 

 forkini;- on the nape, the branches running to opposite the middle of the 

 second dorsal; the second lateral line to upjier edge of tail; the third to 

 middle of tail; the unbranched fourth to a little beyond the middle of 

 anal; the fifth to lower edge of tail; the fourth beginning near the lower 

 edge of the jiectorals and undulating opposite the veutrals, the lowermost 

 on each side joining just in front of the vent, and proceeding on the 

 median line to the middle of the breast. Pectorals ;ind ventrals large; 

 caudal slightly eniarginate; membranes of soft dorsal and caudal densely 

 scaled for more than \ height of fin. Two pairs of cutaneous flaps on 

 head, the usual supraocular pair, less than \ diameter of pupil, and a 

 much smaller occipital pair which is jireseut in no other species; dorsal 

 high, deeply notched; caudal emarginate when closed, slightly convex 

 when widely spread. Adults brightly colored, the males with large sky- 

 blue spots, the females with smaller red or orange spots. Young sometimes 

 plain brown, with dark i>lain humeral spot. INIales clear brownish olive 

 of varying shade, often tinged with bluish or copj^ery and vaguely lilotched, 

 often with small blue 8i)ots; head and anterior part of body Avith rather 

 large sky-blue spots, each surrounded by a rusty ring, these smaller and 

 more numerous on the top of the head; lips with bluish spots; upper fins 

 brown, mottled; A^entrals and anal dusky bluish; pectorals dark, both 

 rays and membranes crossed by sharply defined whitish reticulations, so 

 that the fins appear to be profusely spotted Avith white. Females brownish, 

 somewhat tinged with reddish, closely covered Avith round spots of a red- 

 dish broAvn; these spots usually quite small and uniform oA-er the whole 

 back and sides; dorsal fin spotted on the scaly jiart, the fins otherAvise 

 plain reddish or bluish, the A'cntrals usually dusky ; pectorals light orange, 

 Avithout markings. Other females ("m«c»?oseri"a/»s") have the groundcolor 

 slaty blue, with rows of round orange spots considerably larger than usual, 

 and becoming vermiculations on the head; dorsal fin orange, clouded at 

 base Avith blue; soft dorsal edged Avith bluish; pectorals plain orange; 

 ))elly AvJiite. These vary iuto the ordinary type. Both types were found in 

 abundance at Sitka. Length 18 inches. North Pacific; abundant from 

 Point Concepcion to Kadiak Island, Alaska; especially about San Fran- 

 cisco, a common food-fish ; the sexes very unlike, the females A'arying much 

 in color; the males very uniform. (ScKa, ten; ypa).ij.n'], line.) 



Labrax decagrammus, Pallas, Mem. Ac. Petersb., ii, 386, pi. 22, ^g. 2, female, 1810, St. 



Elias Bay (Uoll. Joseph Billings) ; Pallas, Zoogr. Kosso-Asiat., in, 278, 1811. • 

 Chirus guttatus, Girard, Proc. Ac. Kat. Sci. PLlla. 1854, 132, female, San Francisco. 



(Types, Nos. 269, 270. Coll. Dr. Heermann, and Lieut. Trowbridge; No. 271, Astoria, 



Oregon. Coll. Lieut. Trowbridge). 

 Grystes lineatus, Ayres, Proc. Gal. Ac. Nat. Sci., i, 1854, 9, San Francisco. (Coll. W. O. 



Ayres.) 

 Chirojysis constellatus, Gieakd, U. S. Pac. K. E. Surv., x, Fish., 42, 1858, male, San Francisco. 



(Types, Nos. 263, 264, 265, U. S. Nat. Mus. Coll. Dr. Kennedy, Dr. Heermann, and Lieut. 



Trowbridge.) 

 Chinis mactdoseriatus, Lockinoton, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., 1880, 55, San Francisco, I'emalo 



Avith large spots. (Coll. Lockiugtou.) 



