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Family CLUPFJD.4>:. 

 6. Clupea pallasi Cuvier and Valenciennes 

 Great schools of the young of this species were Seen, but few of the 

 adults were either seen or taken. The >oung of a couple of inches 

 in length has a dark lateral band, above which the back is lighter in 

 preser\ed specimens; but those of three inches in length or longer 

 have the entire upper half of the body dark, the change from the light 

 parts below to the dark parts above being rather abrupt. 



Family ARGEXTIXID.E. 



7. Hypomesus pretiosus Girard. 



\"ery >oung specimens an inch and a half in length are almost 



perfectly transparent when fresh. Preserved they are white and show 



a double row of black dots along the ventral side. The statement in 



current descriptions and keys that the ventrals are under or behind 



the middle of the dorsal is not correct. It is in all sizes under the front, 



or a little behind the front of the dorsal, but never nearly so far back 



as the middle. 



Family SYNGXATHID.E. 



8. Syngnathus griseolineatus Ayres. 



Not very rare; about a dozen were taken in the seine. The brood- 

 pouches contain eggs and young in all stages of development, and 

 some of the females contain eggs apparently ready to be extruded. 



A specimen of this species in the Stanford collections from San 

 Bartolome Baj', Lower California, considerably increases its southern 

 range. 



Jordan and Starks in, Fishes of Puget Sound, (Proc. Gal. Acad. 

 Sci., Ser. II, V^ol. V) ascribe Syngnathus calif orniens is to the Sound. 

 The only ground I can find for such a record are two papers by Jordan 

 and Gilbert (Proc. Nat. Mus., Ill, pp. 452-458, and IV, pp. 29-70) 

 in which this species is recorded from the Sound, but Syngnathus 

 griseolineatus is there treated as a synonym of Syngnathus calif orniensis, 

 hence the species should not be included in that fauna. 



Family EMBIOTOCID/E. 

 9. Cymatogaster aggregatus Gibbons. 

 Many male specimens arc jet-black over most of the head and bod>', 

 with the yellow vertical stripes more or less, sometimes completely, 



