105. CIIIRID.E IIEXAGRAMMUS. G43 



into a single median line, whieh extends to the biiincbiostegal fold. 

 Eadii Br. VI; D. XlX-25; C. 17, the interspaces scaled; the margin 

 nearly truncate; A. 20; V. I, 5; P. 18. Head scaled above and on 

 sides, except on interopercnlnm and mnzzle. Scales ctenoid, 13-94-31. 

 The scales are elongate, and nearly truncate distally; on the sides they 

 are in obliqne series, but near the dorsal fin from 3-5 rows exhibit 

 scales superposed vertically. General color pale-orange, with ill- 

 deliued blackish shade on the sides, and 7 qnadrate-blackish spots at 

 the base of the dorsal fin; below, bright yellow; dorsal and caudal fin 

 yellowish at base, margins with a broad blackish band ; 3 black spots 

 on the middle of the first, and 4 on the middle of the second dorsal fin ; 

 anal yellow, with 7 blackish blotches extending anteriorly across the 

 rays; pectoral yellow, with brown si)ots on the rays and a black one at 

 the base in front; eye with 5 blackish radii, diverging, two anteriorly, 

 one npward and backward, one backward, and one downward and back- 

 ward. Total length 11 inches; length of head entering it 4.33 times; 

 depth of body 4 times in the same; eye 5 times in head, l.GG times in 

 muzzle, and 1.25 times in interorbital width." Coast of Alaska. [Cope.) 



{Ckiru8 ordinatus Co-pe, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soe. Pbila. 1873.) 



aa Dorsal fiu with the spines separated from the soft rays by a deep notch. (Hexa- 

 {/rainmus.) 

 b. Cheeks partly naked. 



c. Scales all strongly ctenoid. 



999. II. asper Steller. 



Light or dark greenish, much mottled with blackish, rusty-red, and 

 light blue, the dark color in the form of fine marblings, the reddish in 

 the form of broad washes, and the bluish as roundish spots; two light- 

 bluish bands downward and forward from eye, separated by a black- 

 edged brown area; a whitish streak and various reticulate markings 

 on cheeks and opercles; pectorals and dorsal mottled with brown spots; 

 a dark humeral spot, distinct in the young; lower fins black in the 

 male, pale in the female; rtesh often tinged with green. Form rather 

 slender. Maxillary reaching past front of eye, about to pui)il. Xo 

 teeth on palatines. Scales all strongly ctenoid, except on sides of 

 head; region about suborbital stay and lower part of the opercles 

 naked or nearly so; lower part of cheeks scaled in varying degree, 

 generally more naked in large examples. A lateral line from occiput 

 close to dorsal fin, ceasing near middle of spinous dorsal; one from 

 occiput along back to base of caudal; one from angle of opercle to 

 middle of base of caudal; one from just below the pectoral fin, uudu- 



