105. CHIRID.E — HEXAGRAMMUS. 
645 
pictus Grd. U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv. Fish. 43: C hints pictus Gunther, ii, 93: Cldrus picUis 
Eockiugton, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. IdSO, 54 : Chinis balias Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 
1873.) 
56. Cheeks wholly scaled ; scales all ctenoid. 
lOOl. IE. decJlgraBBamws (Pallas) J. & G.—Bock Trout; Boregat; Bodkron. 
Males clear brownish-olive of varying shade, often tinged with bluish 
or coppery and vaguely blotched; often with small blue spots; head 
and anterior part of body with rather large sky-blue spots, each sur- 
rounded by a rusty ring, these smaller and more numerous on the top 
of the head; lips with bluish spots; upper fins brown, mottled; ven- 
trals and anal dusky-bluish; pectorals dark, both rays and membranes 
crossed by sharply-defined whitish reticulations, so that the fins appear 
to hQprofuselij spotted with ichite. Females brownish, somewhat tinged 
with reddish, closely covered with round spots of a reddish-brown; these 
spots usually quite small and uniform over the whole back and sides; 
dorsal fin spotted on the scaly part, the fins otherwise plain reddish or 
bluish, the ventrals usually dusky; pectorals light orange., without marlc- 
ings. Other females {'■hnaculoseriatus’^) have the ground color slaty- 
blue, with rows of round orange spots considerably larger than usual, 
and becoming vermiculations on the head; dorsal fin orange, clouded at 
base with blue; soft dorsal edged with bluish; pectorals pUin orange; 
belly white. Body elevated at the shoulders, descending rather steeply 
at the nape. Maxillary not reaching middle of eye; a very few teeth 
on front of palatines; supraocular flap smaller than in other species, 
shorter than pupil. Cheeks and opercles entirely scaled; scales on the 
body all strongly ctenoid. Uppermost lateral line forking on the nape, 
the branches running to opposite the middle of the second dorsal; the 
second lateral line to upper edge of tail; the third to middle of tail; 
the 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 iiectorals and 
undulating opi^osite the ventrals, the lowermost on each side joining 
just in front of the vent, and i)roceeding on the median line to the 
middle of the breast. Dorsals high, scarcely connected; pectorals and 
ventrals large; caudal slightly emargiuate. Head 4i; depth 4. D. 
XXI-24; A. I, 23; Lat. 1. 112. L. 18 inches. Xorth Pacific; abundant 
from Point Concepcion to Alaska. 
{Lahrax decagrammus Pallas, M^in. Acad. Petersl). 1810, ii, 386, 9> and in Zoogr. 
Rosso-Asiat. iii, 278: Chiras decagratnmus Gunther, ii, 92: Chinis gnttatus Girard, Proc. 
Acad. Nat. Sci. Pkila. 1854, 132: Chiropsis guttatus Grd. U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv. Fish. 
