400 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NA TIOXA L MVSEVM. vol. xxv. 



[ffKocpTijg^ one who leaps; ix^^^-, fish; the fish having extraordinary 

 powers of throwing itself from pool to pool by leaping into the air 

 when the tide recedes.) 



a. Head with a high dermal crest at tlie nape; dorsal rays, XIII, 21; anal, 23; color, 



dark brown, with vertical liands of shining greenish eiiosima', 11, 



aa. Head without dermal crest; dorsal rays XII, 16; anal, 20; color Ijrown, with 

 dark cross bands and numerous white dots sttlllfn; 12. 



II. SCARTICHTHYS ENOSIM^ Jordan and Snyder, new species. 

 KAEIlU-U^VO (FROG-FISH). 



Head 5jV i'^ length; depth 4:^%; depth of caudal peduncle 2 in head; 

 eye4i; interorbital space 13; D. XIII, 21; A. I, 22; P. 14. 



Body somewhat elongate, compressed, the caudal peduncle deep, 

 greatly compressed; head blunt, the anterior profile vertical; eye high 

 up and far forward, directed somewhat obliquely; mouth horizontal, 

 on lower part of head; sul)orbital area about as wide as orbit; upper 



SCA KTICHTH V.S E.NOSIM.E. 



lip wide, ver^' thin; lower jaw included; cleft of mouth extending to 

 a vertical passing a little behind orbit; teeth minute, slender, ver}^ 

 loosely attached to the flesh}' gums in a single row; close together like 

 the teeth of a coml), some projecting slightly farther than others at 

 the tips; no canines; no teeth on vomer or palatines; gill-membraues 

 forming a broad fold across the isthmus; anterior edge of shoulder 

 girdle without protuberances; gillrakers minute, slender, pointed; 

 pseudobranchia? large; a row of papilla3 resembling gillrakers extend- 

 ing along base of pseudobrauchije and downward toward attachment 

 of first gill-arch; anterior nostril with a many-branched cirrus; upper 

 part of eye with a tall, flat, pointed cirrus, its length equal to vertical 

 diameter of eye; occiput w'ith a tall, thin, crest-like flap which extends 

 from interorbital space to nape, its height equal to vertical diameter 

 of orbit; a minute, slender cirrus on each side of nape. Head and 

 body naked; lateral line arched over pectoral, the curve parallel with 

 outline of fin, distinct anteriorly, breaking up near middle of body, 

 becoming indistinct and disappearing posteriorly. Dorsal fin extend- 



