•CEBEDICHTIIYS. 
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114. BLENXIID.E 
of whicli is sometimes a streak of pale olive. These streaks all merge 
backward into the color of the head; middle streak broadly wedge- 
shaped; the third streak teruiinatiiig before reaching margin of jn'e- 
opercle; old specimens often coarsely blotched with yellow. Lower 
jaw with a series of short stout conical teeth; n])per jaw with a narrow 
band of similar teeth; 2 strong canines in ui)per jaw, 4 in the lower. 
Lower lateral line sending a branch to the abdominal line; nape not 
constricted. Dorsal beginning anteriorly; distance from its origin to 
occiput less than that from occiput to tip of snout ; origin of anal nearer 
snout than tip of caudal by about half length of head; pectoral lin as 
long as eye. Head 8; depth 7L D. LXXIIT; A. 48. L. 18 inches. 
Monterey to Alaska; very abundant among rocks and algae. 
{Xqyhidion mucosum Girard, U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv. Fish. 1358, 119: Xiphidion mu- 
cosum Giiuther, iii, 291; Jordau & Gilbert. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 137: Xipkidiuin 
iruorcum Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. Piiila. 1873.) 
11§0. X. riipestris Jor. & Gilb. 
Eeddish brown, uniform or variously shaded with lighter; a light 
olivaceous bar at base of caudal, extendiug on dorsal and anal; behind 
this a blackish area; tip of caudal usually pale; 3 long, well- defined 
stripes radiating backward from eye, these stripes uniform black, ab- 
ruptly margined with very light olive; the central stripe proceeds 
straight backward from the eye, half the breadth of the cheeks, at 
which point it is broadest; it is then narrowed and bent abruptly 
downward ; both the middle and lower stripes reach the margin of 
preoiiercle. Teeth essentiallj- as in X. mucosus. The lower lateral line 
sends a branch to the abdominal line. A constriction at the najje. 
Distance from origin of dorsal to the occiput greater than the distance 
from the occiput to the snout. Anal fin begiuuing much in advance 
of middle of body, the distance from the first ray to tip of caudal ex- 
ceeding the distance to snout by nearly twice length of head; pectoral 
very short, its length less than diameter of eye. Head 8; depth 9. 
D. LXVI ; A. 50. L. 12 inches. Smaller than the preceding, and 
equally abundant; among rocks and algse, from Alaska to Monterey. 
(Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 137.) 
41-5.— CEBEOICHTIIYS Ayres. 
(Ayres, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sci. i, 59, 1855: type Cebedichthys cristagalli Ayres= Jpo- 
dichthys violaceus Gi'd.) 
Body comparatively short, compressed, covered with minute scales; 
lateral line distinct, running very high, with very short branches, 
