150 NEW SPECIES OF FISHES, GULF OF CALIFORNIA. 



The species is based upon twenty specimens, the longest 70 m,u in 

 length, obtained by us from a lagoon near the Long Bridge above Guay- 

 mas, and from a small arm of the bay near the city. The water in both 

 places was shallow, and quite filthy fromgreal quantities of dead fishes 

 that had been washed in. 



An examination of the material at hand leads us to believe that 

 the newly-proposed genus Clevelandia* was based upon characters that 

 are uot of generic value, and can nor therefore stand. In Gillichthys 

 the number of dorsal spines has been invariably given as six. The fact 

 that the number of dorsal spines in Clevelandia and in our specimens, 

 which will agree otherwise with Gillichthys as limited by Cooper, are 

 lour and five, respectively, would seem to indicate that the limits of the 

 genus Gillichthys should be extended. This is evidently preferable to 

 basin- a new genus upon so slight a character as a difference of one or 

 two dorsal spines. 



13. Scorpaena sonorae, sp. nov. (Type, No. 39644, U. S. N. M.) 



Head. '2.\ in length to base of caudal (3 in total); depth, 3J (44); eye r 

 .;. D. v|/i_K»; A. Ill— 5; Lat. 1. G— 17— 15. 

 Allied to H. fernandeziana Steindachner. 



Body oblong, slightly compressed, back not greatly elevated, profile 

 gently arched from snout to origin of first dorsal, and but little convex 

 from there to caudal tin; ventral profile nearly straight to origin of 

 anal, where it makes a broad angle with line to base of caudal. 



The occiput has no distinct pit; there is no pit between the lower 

 anterior margin of the orbit and suborbital stay. 



Head large, little compressed, 3 in total length. Mouth large, oblique: 

 maxillary large, triangular, 1'.] in head, extending to posterior margin 

 of pupil; preinaxillaries with a deep sinus at the middle of their 

 anterior margin into which fits the slightly projecting lower jaw. 



Teeth in villiform bands on jaws, vomer, and palatines. Suborbital 

 with a sharp ridge bearing three small spines, these in a line with a 

 strong spine on the preopercle. 



Cranial ridges quite unlike those in Sebastodes. The nasal spines 

 small with a prominence between them made by the upper posterior 

 tips of the premaxilhtries ; the preocular spine is the largest; the supra- 

 ocular ridge with two small spines a little behind middle of eye ; on 

 the upper posterior margin of the orbit is a strong tubercle rising into 

 three small spines from which a well-developed occipital ridge extends 

 backwards, ending in a sharp spine; tympanic spines quite small; 

 coronal ridges quite prominent, with at least three distinct spines on 

 each ; nuchal spines well developed. 



Opercle with two strong spines, both beginning at the same point on 

 a level with the pupil and at a distance from it equal to the diameter of 

 the eye, the lower one running nearly horizontally backwards across 

 • BigenmauD ami Fageninaun, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 188S. 7.5. 



