680 CONTEIBUTIOXS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 



round dark olive spots ; belly unspotted; thoracic region pink; spinous 

 dorsal blackish, its middle part with many roundish pale spots, forming 

 a continuous stripe, besides smaller black spots; caudal and jiectoral 

 with vertical bars of dark and pale spots; soft dorsal and anal spotted; 

 ventrals pinkish, little spotted; jaws and branchiostegals yellowish, 

 more or less mottled ; axil pale, with round dark spots. Body robust, 

 little compressed; interorbital space not very deeply concave; a pit at 

 the vertex in front of occipital ridges, much broader than long. Mouh 

 very broad, little oblique, the lower jaw included ; maxillary 2|- in head, 

 reaching posterior margin of orbit. Gill-rakers very short, broad, com- 

 pressed. Cranial spines bluntish, high; preocular, supraocular, post- 

 ocular, tympanic, occipital, nuchal, and exoccipital present, besides a 

 bifid spine between the exoccipital and orbit; upper preopercuiar spine 

 longest; opercular spines not large; suprascapular spines 3, knife-like; 

 suborbital region without pit, but with a bony carina on which are 

 2 or 3 bluntish spines. Head naked; breast, and region before pec- 

 torals, covered with small imbedded scales (with exception of opercular 

 flap); anterior margin of x>reorbitals, margin of preopercle, and nostrils 

 with skinny flaps; 1 or 2 rather small flaps above eye, besides several 

 smaller ones on various parts of the head. Scales small, nowhere dis- 

 tinctly ctenoid; nearly every scale on the upper parts of body with a 

 small membranous flap. Dorsal spines high, higher than the soft rays, 

 the longest 2^ in head; second anal spine longest and much the strong- 

 est, 3 in head; pectoral very broad, short, and rounded, its lower rays 

 procurrent, its tip reaching beyond the ventrals to vent, its base more 

 than ^ head, its length 3 J in body; caudal rounded. Peritoneum white. 

 Head 2f ; depth 3. D. XII, 10; A. Ill, 5; Lat. 1. 30 (tubes) ; 50-60 scales. 

 L. 12 inches. Coast of California, from Point Concepcion southward; 

 very abundant. 



(Grd. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila. 1854, 145 ; Grd. U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv. Fish. 77, pi. 

 17: Sehaskqjistcs guitatus Gill, iu Street's Bulletin, U. S. Nat. Mus. vii, 1877, 62.) 



1037. S. pSusnieri Blocli. — Eascacio. 



Olive brown, excessivelj" marbled with silvery and reddish; fins pro- 

 fusely variegated ; caudal barred with brown and silvery; a dark blotch 

 on spinous dorsal, between the 6th and 7th spines; axil black, with 

 white spots. Body short and thick. Head irregular in form, with nu- 

 merous grooves and pits, and many fleshy slips; a large deep pit below 

 the eye, betw^een it and the front of suborbital stay; supraocular flap at 



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