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dark bar downward from eye 5 fins reddish; a V-shaped mark from 
eyes to occiput, grayish, bordered by jet black; the common form 
{Icetus Cope) with about 14 red spots along base of dorsal, each with 
a curved black bar in front and behind, jiartly encircling it; others 
{ornatus) with about as many broad //\-shaped darker blotches, which 
extend 011 the fin, the first ^ue or two blotches often shaped as in the 
form called Icctus. Head naked, very narrow above; nape nearly equi- 
distant between origin of dorsal and front of orbit; origin of anal 
equidistant between base of caudal and base of pectoral ; pectoral 2 
in head; veutrals each consisting of a spine and a ray. Head 8 ; 
depth 8 . D. LXXXYIII; A. II, 37. L. 12 inches. San Francisco to 
Alaska; very abuiulant northward. 
{Gimnellus ornatus Grd. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila. 1854, 149: Cenlronotus nehulosus 
Gtlir. iii, 287, part, but tlie Japanese M. nehulosus is a different species: Ceutronotus 
leetus Coi>e, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. Phila. 1873.) 
1171. M. laaaxiSlaris Bean. 
Brown; back with a series of 11 rounded or oblong pale spots, the 
longest half as long as the head; all of these spots include at the top 
a rather large brown spot, and below numerous little brown spots; 
between the first and second iiale blotches are 2 very dark spots on 
the dorsal membrane, and below the dark spots a pale one of similar 
size; sides with about 2 G pale bands, mostly well defined, especially 
anteriorly; interorbital space with a brown band, preceded and fol- 
lowed by a pale baud half as wide; below eye 2 whitish bands, with a 
brown one between them. Head scaleless; mouth little oblique, the 
lower jaw on level of middle of eye; width of mouth equal to length 
of pectoral and nearly half head; mandible as long as pectoral. Eye 
equal to snout, a little more than interorbital width; ventral spine 
eye. Highest dorsal spines near front of fin, half length of mandible; 
caudal half head; vent under forty-third dorsal spine, not far behind 
middle of body. Head 8 ; depth 7. D. LXXXVIII; A. II, 43; Y. I, 
1. Saint Paul Island, Alaska. {Bean.) 
aa. Veutrals reduced to a rudiuieut. 
1172. M. (lolicSiogastca* (Pallas) J. & G. 
Brownish olive, marbled with yellowish; fins yellowish; dorsal fin 
with distant pale vertical bauds; snout very short; cleft of mouth 
oblique; a pair of small bony warts (“verructe ossere e cute prom- 
inuise”) in i)lace of veutrals. Caudal fin well developed, the dorsal 
