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with brownish black, of which a series on the lateral line and 2 or 3 pairs between this 

 and the edges of the body are most prominent : fins faintly marked with brownish : 

 pectoral sometimes with faint, broad, dusky cross-bars. 



FiG. 95. — Ciiha. 



Type. — United States National Museum. No. 4440S. 

 Distribution. — Both coasts of Lower Cahfomia. 

 Specimens Examined ; 

 2 (102, 160 mm.). Paratypes. 26° 16' 15' N., 113^ 42' 



4. CITHARICHTHYS STIGM^US, Jordan and Gilbert. 



Cltharichthys stigma 

 and Gilbert, 18 

 Fish., xiv, (1S81 

 Evermann, 189 

 Pub. Zool., iii ( 



s, Jordan and Gilbert, 1S83, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., v, (1882), p. 411 ; Jordan 

 3, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., xvi, p. 965 ; Jordan and Goss, 1889, Rep. U.S. Com. 

 , p. 274 ; Gilbert, 1895, Rep. U.S. Com. Fish., xix, (1893), p. 473 ; Jordan and 

 , Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., xlvii (3), p. 2681; Starks and Morris, 1907, Univ. Calif. 

 i), p. 246 ; Starks, 1918, Calif. Fish. Game, iv (4), p. 18. 



Flc. 96. — CUharichthys stignh 



B.M. (N.H.) 90.11 



