Starks: hii riivdi.or.icAi. Survf.y ahout San Ji'an Islands. 199 



Tlu' followiiiii tal)Ie is arraiitiod in rrferoncc to llic drplh of color 

 on the lower tins, laniiin^ downward from l)lark to colorless. 



In life the body is greenish-grey with short reticulated lines of canary- 

 yellow extending longitudinally; a bright yellow line around lower 

 part of eye, and another across cheek; some specimens have the dorsal 

 and pectoral yellow, with the lower rays of the latter abruptly dark 

 slate-color; the ventrals and anal similarily colored, but the latter 

 shading into a clear electric blue toward the base of the rays; in others 

 these lower fins arc light yellow. The caudal is always yellow. 



Family BLENNIID.E. 

 52. Pholis ornatus (Girard). 

 This is the commonest blenny in the region, and was taken in the 

 seine, in tidal pools, and even in the dredge in fifteen or twenty fathoms 

 of water. The number of dorsal spines does not vary greatly. In 

 the eighteen specimens which were carefully examined, ten had 

 seventy-six, six had seventy-seven, and two had seventy-eight spines. 



53. Apodichthys flavidus Girard. 



Taken in abundance in the seine, but not found in tidal pools. 

 The red and bright green forms occur together in exactly the same 

 surroundings, and no specimens were taken which were intermediate 

 in color. 



A large male, fourteen inches in length, differs from females of equal 

 size in being slenderer, and in ha\"ing a longer head and maxillary. 



