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17. Hexagrammos stelleri Tilesiiis. 

 This species was not nearly so commonly taken as Hexagrammos 

 decagrammns. The species may at once be known by its short un- 

 forked fourth lateral line, which never reaches the tip of the ventral, 



and usiiali>' Init little jiast its base. 



18. Oxylebius pictus ('.ill. 

 This species was frequently seen swimming about the piles of old 

 whar\ es in Friday Harbor, or sometimes clinging in a peculiar manner 

 with its \ontral surface against a pile, its body often straight up or 

 down. Only one specimen was secured 



Family COTTID/E. 

 19. Jordania zonope Starks. 



Two specimens were collected with a dip-net under an old pier in 

 Friday Harbor; others were seen swimming about the piles apparently 

 finding food among the barnacles. 



The typical specimens have XVHI, 16 (not XVTI, 15) rays in the 

 dorsal, and twenty-three or twenty-four (not twenty-two) rays in 

 the anal. The specimens from Friday Harbor have the dorsal XMI, 

 17 and XVIII, 16, and twenty-three rays in the anal. 



The colors in life are: body olive-green with reddish spots growing 

 redder towards the tail; lower part of sides with reddish-brown mark- 

 ings; indefinite cross-bars on the back; olive-brown bars on the head 

 margined with clear light green, one downward from the eye, one for- 

 ward from the eye to the snout, one across the preopercle; a light 

 green band following the edge of the opercle; lips red, caudal clear 

 orange-red with very inconspicuous cross-bars; anal orange-red with- 

 out markings; ventrals a little more yellow; pectoral greenish, growing 

 red towards tips of rays, and crossed by dark bands; spinous dorsal 

 dark olive-brown with light cross-bars across the spines; soft dorsal 

 with rather fine light and dark cross bars. 



20. Radulinus asprellus Gilbert. 

 This species was commonly taken in the dredge. Two mistakes 

 may here be pointed out occurring in the description and key of this 

 species published by Jordan and Evermann (U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull., 

 47, p. 1919). Instead of "the pectoral reaching to or nearly to the 

 vent," the description should read "to the vent," as in the original 



