712 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 



form teeth in both jaws and on the vomer, none on the palatines; upper 

 preopercular spine short, strong, with bifurcated tip; suborbital stay- 

 narrow; gill-membranes partly free from the isthmus, over which they 

 form a broad fold; a slit behind fourth gill. First dorsal with its upper 

 margin somewhat S -shaped, the first two spines elongate, the middle 

 ones of nearly equal length, and the posterior ones rapidly shortened; 

 ventrals I, 3. Pacific. (AeFoc, smooth; x«-to?, Cottus.) 



1094. L.. loirBBETKlo GrcL 



Olivaceous, shaded with light blue, and reticulated Avith brownish- 

 red, the latter color predominating on the head; sides with four broad, 

 oblique, brownish-red bars, the first three running from dorsal forwards 

 and downwards, the fourth from caudal peduncle backwards to base of 

 caudal; abdomen orange brown, with pale spots; caudal orange brown, 

 with yellow bars near the tip; fins with bars and si)ots of dark brown- 

 ish-red; breast and ventrals whitish; three dark blotches at base of 

 pectorals; spinous dorsal with oblique dark streaks; a dark blotch on 

 each eye above, and a light streak forwards and downwards from eye. 

 Body elongate, fusiform, the caudal i)eduucle slender; profile of snout 

 decurved; maxillary reaching front of orbit; three small cirri at the end 

 of each maxillary; preopercular margin with several similar cirri; 

 opercle and shoulder-girdle without siiines; upjjer preopercular spine as 

 long as piq)il. Top of head smooth ; supraorbital ridges little elevated; 

 nasal spines distant from tip of snout. Spinous dorsal elevated in front, 

 the first two rays much longer than the others, nearly two-thirds length 

 of head; soft dorsal and anal fins rather long; pectorals reaching i^ast 

 front of anal; ventrals to vent. Head 3J; depth 4^; eye large, 4i in 

 head. D. IX-17; A. 15; V. 1, 3. L. 10 inches. Santa Barbara Islands ; 

 extremely local. 



(Girard, Proc. Acatl. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1856, 133 ; Girard, U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv. FLsli. 62: 

 Cottun hirutido Giiutlier, ii, 166.) 



372.— TRIGLOPS Reiuliardt. 

 (Reinhardt, V^id. Selslc. Natur. Math. Afli. v, lii: type Ti-iglops plugeVi Reiuliardt.) 



Body rather elongate, the tail very slender. Head small and com- 

 pressed. Mouth moderate; villiforra teeth on jaws and vomer, none on 

 the palatines; ]ireopercular spines small, simple. Head prickly, but 

 without scales. A row of enlarged plate-like scales along the lateral 

 line; a similar row above it at the base of the dorsal fin; the space be- 

 tween these densely prickly ; lower half of body crossed at short inter- 

 vals by transverse undulating folds of skin, the edge of the fold with 



