No. 1744. REVIEW OF ll.oi \hi:i;s 8TARKS \\l> THOMPSON. 



283 



The color in alcohol is dark olive mottled with irregular darker 

 blotches sharply cut and darker toward their edges. A black spot, 

 as large as the eye, indistinctly ocellated is present on the middle of 

 the lateral line. On the caudal is a larger, round, dusky spot ; a dark 

 bar across the base of the rays, and the balance of the I'm mottled and 

 edged with white behind. The vertical tins are irregularly mottled 

 and very narrowly edged with white. 



Here described from twelve specimens from Pugel Sound, Wash- 

 ington. The type is 1(H inches in length, and was collected among 

 the San Juan Islands near the northern end of the sound. It is 

 deposited in the U. S. National Museum. The cotypes are from <> to 



Fig. 1. — Pleuronichthys ^ethklus. 



9 inches in length, and except two, which are from near Seattle, are 

 from the same locality. They are deposited among the collections 

 of Stanford University. 



Measurements of Pleuronichthys nephehts. 



Body length withoul cau- 

 dal, in mm 



Body depth in hundredths 

 of length 



Length of head... 



Longitudinal diameter of 

 upper orbit 



Distance across l>oih orbits. 



Lengl h of maxillary 



Ventral of eyed side pos- 

 terior to that of blind 



Lengl h of caudal peduncle . 



I >epl h of caudal peduncle. . 



Number Of dorsal rays 



Number of anal rays 



Scales below lateral line In 

 longitudinal series 



Gill-rakers < 



188 



23 



7.4 



in 

 6. 5 



2 

 3. 5 



11 

 72 

 50 



75 



3+KI 

 3+ 9 



1 55 



.-,1 

 24 



8. I 



11 



6. 5 



1.5 



3. 5 



13 



68 



19 



71 

 3 f lo 



3 . 9 



1 33 



52 

 24 



8,3 



12 



6.5 



1 5 



3. 5 



13.5 



69 



17 



68 

 H 10 

 ; LO 



1 25 



50 

 26 



7 

 11 



7 



1.5 

 2 



13. 5 



70 

 19 



3 in 

 3 i 8 



171 



52 



24 



7. 3 



in 

 (i 



1.5 



3 



13 



68 



17 



:; | in 

 10 



160 



52 

 23 



8 



in 

 7 



i. ., 

 11 

 66 



17 



69 



3 'i 

 I 'i 



L63 



■Id 

 24 



8 



in 

 ti 



1.5 



I i 

 13 

 72 

 49 



77, 

 3 ! 9 

 3 I 9 



111 



52 

 22 



7.7, 

 11 

 6 



i ■ 



2. 5 



15 



68 



is 



70 

 3 ' in 

 3+11 



130 



.-,ii 

 24 



8 



11 



6. 5 



1.2 



3 



13 



69 



7,11 



65 

 3-1 in 



3 t in 



215 



-in 

 25 



7.7) 



10 

 6.5 



1.5 



:; ', 



77, 

 56 



70 

 3 I II 

 3+11 



loo 



.'.). .) 



8. 1 



in 



6.5 



■> 

 2 



l"( 

 67 



7,1 



I 

 I o 



124 



27 •' 



9.1 

 12 



1.7, 



:; 

 II 



70 

 49 



77> 

 l 12 



■nil 



