11, HETEB08TICHUS. 261 



sixth of the total. Dorsal fin continuous, with the three anterior 

 spines rather remote from the others, which they equal in length. 

 Scales very small. Brownish-green, with some whitish spots on the 

 body and on che vertical fins. 

 Coast of Chile. 



2. Myzodes cristatas. 

 Cuv. ^ Vol. xi. p. 401 ; Gay, I. c. p. 286. 

 D.f. A.|. V.3. 



The three anterior dorsal spines longer than the others. Greyish, 

 spotted with black ; dorsal fin with eight blackish spots. ( Vol.) 

 Coast of Chile. 



11. HETEROSTICHUS. 



Heterostichus, Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1854, p. 143, and 

 U. S. Padf. R. R. Exped. Fishes, p. 36*. 



Body somewhat elongate, covered with small scales, compressed ; 

 snout rather produced, with the lower jaw longest. Canine teeth 

 in the jaws, villiform teeth on the vomer and the palatines. Dorsal 

 fin long, continuous, the spines being much more numerous than the 

 rays. Ventrals jugular, composed of a short spine and three rays. 

 Six branchiostegals. 



Coast of California. 



1. Heterostichus rostratus. 

 Girard, I. c. pi. 13. 



D.27. A. i^. 



• 13 34 



Snout very much depressed and concave ; the first five dorsal spines 

 are separated by a notch from the rest of the fin. 

 San Diego. 



12. CLINUSt. 



Clinus, sp., Otw. R^gne Anim. ; Cuv. 8f Val. xi. p. 352. 



Cirrhibarbis, Cuv. (^ Val. xi. p. 406. 



Labrosomus, Gobioclinus, Blennioclinus, Auchenionchus, Malaco- 



ctenus, Calliclinus, et Ophthalmolophus, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. 



Philad. 1860, p. 102. 



Body moderately elongate, covered with small scales ; snout rather 

 short ; a narrow band or sometimes a single series of small teeth in 

 the jaws and on the palate. Dorsal fin long, formed by many spines 



* Before we had an opportunity of seeing the figure of this fish, we placed it 

 Bs an appendix to the Trachinid<s (toI. ii. p. 264), to which family it had been 

 referred by Girard. That figure, which is stated to be " very accurate," represents 

 the ventral fins thoracic, whilst, according to the text, they are " situated much 

 iu advance of the insertion of the pectorals." 



t 1 . Clinus peruvianus, Cuv. ^ Val. xi. p. 383. — Peru. 



2. elegans, Cuv. Sf Vol. xi. p. 388. pi. 333 ; Gay, Hist Chile, Zool. ii. 



p. 279.— Valparaiso. 3 



