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seen by the writers are placed iu italics. A vertical column is given for 

 each of the principal localities, and a cross ia any column opposite the 

 name of a species indicates that we have obtained or examined, while 

 in the field, specimens from the locality in question. In the last column, 

 S. indicates a general southern distribution, most usually from Point 

 Concepcion or Monterey to Magdalena Bay or Cape San Lucas ; N. 

 indicates a general northern distribution, usually from Monterey or 

 Cape Mendocino to Sitka, or beyond ; C. indicates the distinctively 

 Californian fauna, the abundance being usually greatest about Monterey 

 and San Francisco. This fauna is chiefly composed of the two viv ii)a- 

 rous families Scorpcenidce and Embiotocidm. 



It will be noticed that the number of species obtained in Monterey Bay 

 and about San Francisco is considerably greater than at any other points. 

 This is partly due to the fact that these regions have more extensive 

 fisheries than others. There is no doubt, however, that more species of 

 fishes really occur from Monterey to Point Reyes than elsewhere on the 

 coast. Monterey Bay is the common meeting ground of the semi-tropi- 

 cal and semi-arctic fish faunse. There is nowhere an abrupt change 

 along the coast. The three capes, Flattery, Mendocino, and Point Con- 

 cepcion, are to some extent points of division. 



Name, 



1. Mola rotunda Cuvier 



2. Diodon maculatus Lac . 



3. Tetrodou politus Ayres 



4. Hippocampus in gens Grd 



5. Riphostonia punctipinne (Gill) J. & G. . . 



6. Siphostonia Irptiirhvnibus* (Grd.) Gill . 



7. Siphostoma diniidiatum Gill 



8. Siphostoma calil'oinicnset (Storer) Gill. . 



+ 

 + + 



9. Aulorliynclius flavidus Gill . 



10. Gasterosteus (aculeatus) serratus Ayres. 



11. Gasterosteus miciocephalus Grd 



+ 



12. Aphoristia atricauda J. & G 



13. Pleuroniclithys verticalis J. &G 



14. Pleuronichthys decurrcn.s; J. & G 



15. Pleuronichthys creuosns ('r7d 



IG. Hypsopsetta'}£uttulat;i (Cnl.) Gill 



17. Cyuicoglossns patilicus Lock , 



18. Glyptocciihalus /,;u-liiriis Lock .. 



19. Pleuronrclcs st llatus Pallas ■\- 



20. Lepid()i)s.tta liiliiicata^ (Ayres) Gill + 



21. Parophivs isilurus J. & G -1- 



22. Paroi)hrvs isiil. pis (Lock.) J. &. G + 



23. Parophrvs vet iiliis Grd + 



24. Cithariciith\s sonlidus (Grd.) Gthr + 



25. Psettichthys melanostictus Grd | -1- 



+ 



S. 

 C. 



c. 

 + N. 



+ 



+ 



-h 



-f 



*Synf:nathn8 aiundinaceus Grd. 

 tSynguathus griseoliueatiis Ayres. 



♦Kom. sp. nov.— PliurouichthVs quadrituborculatus J. & G. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, iii, 50 non 

 Tleuro)iec'.eiiquadritnherciilatus Pallas. * 



§Pleuronectes perarcuatus Cope. 



