764 CONTEIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
torals moderate 5 lateral line simple, complete, abruptly curved behind 
liectorals; air-bladder present, large. Size large, {irepo^, different; 
<7rcxo<;, rank; in allusion to the anterior dorsal si)iues.) 
1165. II. rostratiBS Grd. — KeJp-fisli. 
Translucent reddish brown, varying to blackish or olive, with traces 
of shining pale bands on the sides, and dark vertical bars, the hue 
and pattern of color Amiying greatly; young specimens most Amrie- 
gated ; a translucent spot behind third dorsal spine. Body much com- 
pressed, deepest anteriorly; head slender, compressed and pointed; 
lower jaw projecting, with thick lip; maxillary reaching pupil, 2f in 
head; eye large, 7 in head; orbital cirrus minute, usually entirely want- 
ing; cheeks and upper edge of opercle with small scales, rest of head 
naked; middle rays of caudal about two-thirds length of outer. Head 
; depth 3|; B. G. D. V, XXXI I, 13; A. II, 31. L. 15 inches. San 
Francisco to San Diego. The largest of the Bleimies which are allied 
to Clinus. 
(Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbila. 1854, 143; Girard, U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv. Fish. 
3G; Giiuther, ii, 264, and iii, 261.) 
409.— CRE^HNOBATES Giiuther. 
Aiichcnopterm Giiuther, preoccupied.) 
(Giinther, Proc. Zool Soc. Loud. 1861, 374: type Auchenopterus monophthalmus Gthr.) 
Body moderately elongate, compressed, covered with rather large 
cycloid scales; head shortish, naked; cheeks full; month moderate, 
with a baud of conical teeth in the jaws and about one series on the 
vomer; none on the palatines; gill-membranes united, free from the 
isthmus; upper surface of head Avith ‘tentacles. Dorsal tin low, com- 
posed of stiff spines, AAdth but a single soft ray, which is lower than the 
spines; first three spines more or less separated from the others; anal 
fin low, with two spines; veutrals jugular, well developed; ijectorals 
broad; lateral line complete, strongly curved anteriorly. Warm seas. 
This genus differs from Cristiceps in haAnng but one soft ray in the 
dorsal fin, and in the well-developed scales. one who 
haunts rocks.) 
a. Three anterior spines connected to the others by membrane. 
1166. €. iittcg^ripinsais Rosa Smith. 
Color dark brown, variegated with different shades of brown and 
