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Posterior i^art of body covered with miuiite, imbedded, non-imbricate, 

 pectinate scales, which cover most of the posterior part of the body- 

 above and cease anteriorly behind the middle of the spinous dorsal in 

 front and at the posterior third of the soft dorsal behind; some scales 

 also along the region of the lateral line anteriorly; a series of somewhat 

 larger but still minute scales at base of dorsal, one below each ray, and 

 another along lateral line ; anteriorly, cirri take the place of the i)ecti- 

 nations on the scales. 



No prickles on the skin. On the head and anterior parts of the body 

 are very many long white, simple, bifid or trifid cirri, so that the living 

 fish appears almost "woolly" with them. Some of these cirri on the 

 nasal bones ; a patch between and behind the eyes; the whole top of the 

 head sparsely covered; two or three on the posterior edge of the maxil- 

 lary; edge of the cheeks fringed with them as with a gray beard. A 

 conspicuous row of them along the lateral line, which ceases somewhat 

 behind the beginning of the scaly area. A row of cirri along the base 

 of the spinous dorsal extending to about the seventh ray of the spinous 

 dorsal. Many scattering cirri between the dorsal and lateral line. Skin 

 of head with many mucous pores. 



Body dark, clear olive-green, with about five irregular bars of darker 

 greenish; much mottled and spotted, some of the spots above clear 

 blue, some rusty red, and the most of them blackish. A dark bar at 

 base of caudal ; lower part of sides with round black spots x>osteriorly. 

 Fins all with cross-bars made of dark spots and lighter areas. 



Measurement of largest specimen — from Point of Bocks. 



Total length 4 iuclies. 



Leugth to base of caudal 3.45 iuches. 



Leugth of liead (percentage of length to base of caudal) 30 



Depth of body " 25 



Least depth of body " ■. 095 



Diameter of eye " 07 



Width of head " 20 



Depth of head " 17 



Length of maxillary " ; 12 



Distance from snout to dorsal " 27 



Length of first dorsal " 27 



Length of second dorsal " . 37 



Height of first dorsal " 12 



Height of second dorsal " 15 



Length of anal " 30 



Height of anal " 13 



Length of pectoral " 33 



Leugth of ventral " 22 



Length of caudal " 20 



Length of longest cirri " 04 



Length of anal papilla " OS 



This description is drawn from two adult examples taken at Point of 

 Eocks, near San Diego, just south of the line of Mexico, and from about 



