712 COXTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
form teeth in both jaAvs and on the vomer, none on the palatines; upper 
preopercular spine short, strong, with bifurcated tip; suborbital stay- 
narrow; gill-membranes partly^ free from the isthmus, ov'er which they 
form a broad fold; a slit behind fourth gill. First dorsal with its upper 
margin somewhat S -shaped, the first two spines elongate, the middle 
ones of nearly equal length, and the posterior ones rapidly shortened; 
ventrals I, 3. I^acific. {XeTuq, smooth; y.oTzoq^ Cottus.) 
1094. L«. Icin’EUBado Grd. 
OliA’aceous, shaded AAuth light blue, and reticulated Avith brownish- 
red, the latter color predominating on the head; sides Avith four broad, 
oblique, broAAUiish-red bars, the first three running from dorsal forwards 
and doAAUiAA’ards, the fourth from caudal peduncle backAvards to base of 
caudal; abdomen orange brown, with pale spots; caudal orange brown, 
with yellow bars near the tip; fins AA'ith bars and spots of dark brown- 
ish-red; breast and A’-entrals Avhitish; three dark blotches at base of 
pectorals; spinous dorsal AAuth oblique dark streaks; a dark blotch on 
each eye aboA^e, and a light streak forwards and downwards from eye. 
Body* elongate, fusiform, the caudal i)eduncle slender; profile of snout 
decurved; maxillary reaching front of orbit; three small cirri at the end 
of each maxillary; preopercular margin with scA^eral similar cirri; 
opercle and shoulder-girdle without spines; upper preopercular spine as 
long as pupil. Top of head smooth ; sui)raorbital ridges little eleAuited; 
nasal spines distant from tij) of snout. Si)inous dorsal eleAuated in front, 
the first tAvo rays much longer than the others, nearly tAvo-thirds length 
of head; soft dorsal and anal fins rather long; pectorals reaching past 
front of anal; ventrals to A'ent. Head 3i; depth 4^; eye large, 4i in 
head. D. IX-17; A. 15; V. 1, 3. L. 10 inches. Santa Barbara Islands; 
extremely local. 
(Ginii’d, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1856, 133; Girard, U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv. Fish. 62: 
Cottub kiruitilo Giiuther, ii, 166.) 
372.— TRIGJLOPS Reinhardt. 
(Reinhardt, Vid. Selsk. Natnr. Math. Afh. v, lii: type TrigJops plngeli Reinhardt.) 
Body rather elongate, the tail A^ery slender. Head small and com- 
luessed. IMonth moderate; A’illiform teeth on jaws and A^omer, none on 
the palatines; preopercular spines small, simple. Head pricklyq bnt 
AA’ithout scales. A roAV of enlarged plate-like scales along the lateral 
line; a similar row aboA'e it at the base of the dorsal fin; the space be- 
tween these densely- prickly-; lower half of body- crossed at short inter- 
vals by- transverse undulating folds of skin, the edge of the fold with 
