^^'^ ZOOLOGY. 



mouth are also develope,! iuto flesby prolougatious, or tentacles TLe 

 species attains a largo size, sometimes reaching or even exceeding tl,e 

 weight of fifty ponnds. In life the color is briliLt ; ahm-tTth's a vt 

 laceons tint, while the lower parts are whitish, U lome a" as of 

 yellow. There are numerous greenish-yellow spots, the largest about o 

 thira of the Uiameter of the eye; across the ca'lal'fln aretb ,^ ^ig.t 

 stripes of the same color. " The soft ,lorsal has an npper broad band 

 of violaceous, and a narrow basal portion of whitish." The first sneci 

 mens obtained "were caught with menhaden bait in July, 18V9 whle 

 trying for cod, fifty miles south by east of No Man's Lancl," at a'depth 

 of 7o fathoms, and on a very hard clay bottom. "Two miles inside of 



The Zo]>lwlahlus is very abundant and bites freely. Large numbers 

 have been taken since the discovery, and it is possible that the pedes 

 may become a regular object of hshery. 



THE KOCK-PISHES OF CALIPOKNIA. 



t,-„°"%''Vr'"' ™°f ™*<"'<'^""S ^"<> nncxpected results of the invesli-a- 

 tions of Messrs Jordan and Gilbert* among the fishes of the Pacfflc 



coast Of North Americaisthegreat development of spe:L Of thet:^^ 

 of Scorpieuuls representing the genus *W«s«c7,%s or cIo.sely related 

 ones. Exe u.ling Selastodes, eleven species had been previously made 

 tnown, and even then it was considered to be a remarkably well devel 

 oped type, but the recent investigations of Messrs. Jordan and Gilbert 

 have revealed the existence of not less than 23 species. These oceurTu 

 ciflerent associations, and are found in several bathvmetrical zones- 

 they are mostly caught in large numbers by the Italian and Portugese 

 fishermen, and taken to the markets of San Francisco. They exhiW 

 almost every gradation iu the extent of the armature of the head and 



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( c/rf/,2,s and &tbastosomus are such as to indicate that they are of not more 

 than subgeneric ™lue. Someof the species are very foLidably trme l! 

 ^ in the case of the 8. mgrocinctm and 8. Berrkeps, while others, as the 

 ^. «ietaoj« and 8. fl«iAu,, have the spinous rfdges almost obsolete! 



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