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liii narrow, forked for more than half its length, the lobes rather pointed, 
Pectoral fins small, not reaching to the tips of the ventrals. Color rose- 
red with silvery lustre, darker above; top of head orange; a very dis- 
tinct chocolate colored spot above the lateral line at the origin of the 
soft dorsal fin ; another smaller one just below the end of the soft dorsal. 
Fins immaculate, tinged with reddish. Head 3^; depth 2^. 1). X, 18; 
A. Ill, 20; scales C-oO-lO. L. 8 inches. San Francisco, Cal., in deep 
Avater outside the Golden Gate. 
{Ci/matogastir rosaceiis Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 303.) 
an. Lower lip witliout frennni. {llicromeirus.) 
92§. ITI. ag'grcgalMS Gibbons. — Spai-ada ; ^fhinow.” 
Silvery, back dusky ; middle of sides anteriorly with the scales each 
with a cluster of dark points, these forming a series of longitudinal 
stripes, wliich extend to opposite the base of the anal; these stripes are 
interruiited by 3 vertical light .a ellow bars, on which are no black specks 
in the adult. Adult males in sirring almost entirely black. Body 
elongate oval, compressed, lieaA'iest at the front of the dorsal ; caudal 
j)eduncle short and slender; head short; teeth very small, conical 12-6; 
dorsal spines high and rather feeble, rising rapidly to the fifth, thence 
sloAvly descending, the last lower than the soft rays. Cheeks Acith 3 
roAV’s of scales. Head 3^; depth 2|. D. IX, 20 ; A. Ill, 23; scales 3- 
38-11. L. 6 inches. Pacific coast of the United States, everyAvhere 
exceedingly abundant. 
{Ciimatof/aster agfircfjaim Gibbons, 1. c. May 18, 1854; Gibbous 1. c. May 30, 1854; 
Gibbons, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila. 1854, 125 : Ciimato(jastcr oggref/atus Gibbons, Proc. 
Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1854, lOG : Holconotua rlwdoicrufs Girard, U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv, 
Lisb. 193 : Ditrcma agginjututti Giintlier, iv, 248.) 
310.— AI?IP2ilI§TBCIIi:S Agassiz. 
^y all-eyed Perch. 
{IIolco} ohis Agassiz: Eimle'.dlius Girard: Ciimaforiasier* and Hijperprosopon Gibbons: 
Iljipocritichtliijs Gill. ) 
(Agassiz, Am. Jonrn. Sci. Arts. 1854, 367 : type Amjddstichus argenteus Agassiz.) 
Body ovate or oblong, strongly compressed. Moutli moderate, oblique 
or almost A ertical, with slender conical teeth in two series in each jatA’, 
the outer series longer; lips thin, the loAver Avith or Avithout frenum. 
Gill-rakers long or short, slender and stiff. Phar^ngeals normal. Fins 
* The geuns Cgmaingafilcr Gibb.ons, as lirst detined by its author, is equivalent to the 
earlier Ilolconotun of Agassiz. Prior to this, the name Cgmatogaster was used by Gib- 
bons, without explanation, as the generic name of the group afterwai'ds called by him 
Micromeiriis. 
