466 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Family EMBIOTOCID^Sj. The Surf Fishes. 



26. Brachyistius rosaceus (Jordan &. Gilbert). Stations 3101, 3115, 3132, 3147, and 



3156; depths 33 to 56 fathoms. 



27. Cymatogaster aggregatus Gibbons. Viviparous Perch. Drake Bay and sta- 



tions 3100, 3101, 3115, 3149, 3152, and 3156; depths 29 to 50 fathoms. 



28. Hypocritichthys analis (A. Agassiz). Stations 3100,3135, and. 3137; depths 11 



to 29 fathoms. 



29. Hyperprosopon argenteus Gibbons. Monterey. 



30. Holconotus rhodoterus Agassiz. San Simeon Bay. 



31. Amphisticus argenteus Agassiz. Monterey, San Simeon Bay, and Santa 



Barbara. 



32. Phanerodon furcatus Girard. Station 3137; depth 11 fathoms. 



33. Damalichthys argyrosomus (Girard). Station 3149; depth 45 fathoms. 



Family GOBIID.ffi. The Gobies. 



34. Lepidogobius lepidus (Girard). Stations 3115, 3153, and 3154; depths 20 to 43 



fathoms. 



Family CHIRIDiB. 



35. Zaniolepis latipinnis Girard. Stations 3115, 3149, 3156, 3173, and 3175; depths 



43 to 62 fathoms. 



36. Oxylebius pictus Gill. Station 3102; depth 27 fathoms. 



Family SCORP-SlNIDiE. 



37. Sebastodes goodei Eigenmann &l Eigenmann. EoekfisJi. 

 Stations 3113, 3125, and 3190 ; depths 53 to 70 fathoms. 



Gill-rakers 10 or 11 -f 23 to 25. Peritoneum silvery, with scattered stellate black 

 spots. In three young specimens the occipital spines are evident, the others coh- 

 cealed or not developed. The young show five dusky bars downward from back, 

 under front, middle, and end of spinous dorsal, below soft dorsal, and on caudal 

 peduncle. The head is contained 2f times in the length ; the depth, 3f . The second 

 anal spine is as long as the third, but does not reach its tip when fin is declined. 



38. Sebastodes jordani sp. nov. 



Most nearly allied to S. goodei, from which it differs in the much slenderer body, 

 the longer anal spines, the black peritoneum, and the more numerous gill-rakers. 

 From eniomelas and ovalia this species differs in the obsolescence of the cranial 

 ridges, as well as in other details. 



Body very slender, the depth 4 in the length, the least depth of caudal peduncle 

 three-fourths diameter of eye. Head very slender, 2^ in length, tapering regularly 

 to the very sharp snout. Mandible projecting, its tip entering profile, provided with 

 a rather small but distinct symphyseal knob. Maxillary reaching vertical from 

 middle of eye, 2^ in head. Snout 3g in head. lutcrorbital width 4^. Eye large, 3|. 

 Intcrorbital width flat or slightly convex, wholly scaled over, the orbital ridges 

 obsolete, or a faint trace only of the supraorbital, which is always without spine. 

 Th(! occipital ridges are low and sharp, terminating each in a spinous point. In 

 addition to these, the tym)>anic spines are sometimes weakly developed, and the 

 nasal spines are present. The head is otherwise wholly smooth. Preorbital very 

 narrow below eye, wide anteriorly, without distinct lobes but with one or two weak 

 spinous points. Gill-rakers long and very slender, 29 i)resent on horizontal limb of 

 outer arch, the longest equaling one-half diameter of orbit. Preopercular spines 5, 

 comparatively slender, all directed backward. 



