FISHES OF PUGET SOUND. 795 
what behind ventrals, at a point midway between pre- 
opercle and base of caudal, its last rays extending over 
the anterior third or fourth of anal; adipose fin not evi- 
dent, perhaps obliterated. Caudal apparently lunate, 12 
in head. Anal low, its base 1% in head. Ventrals 24% 
in head, inserted midway between front of eye and base 
of caudal. Pectorals inserted very. low, narrow and 
pointed, 12 in head. 
Back brownish, the sides burnished silvery; silvery 
area on cheeks Y-shaped, the Y placed obliquely. Fins 
with some dark dots, these forming obscure bars across 
caudal; dark specks on back of caudal peduncle, and 
across base of caudal; some dark dots elsewhere on 
body. 
Type two specimens, each 23g inches long, and in good 
condition, numbered 3125 on the register of Leland Stan- 
ford Jr. Museum. They were cast up in a storm and 
thrown by the waves on the deck of a vessel coming in 
from Australia. The exact locality in the open Pacific is 
not known. The types were presented by the Young 
Naturalists’ Society to the Museum of Stanford Univer- 
sity. 
The new genus Za/arges seems to belong to the Chau- 
liodontide, near the Atlantic genus Jarrella Goode & 
Bean. It may be thus defined: Body subfusiform, mod- 
erately compressed, probably covered in life with thin 
caducous scales. Head subacute, the membrane bones 
normal, thin; mouth large, with expanded maxillary and 
mandibular bones; lower jaw projecting. Teeth very 
slender, unequal, uniseral, none on tongue or vomer; 
no fangs. Eye large. Gill openings very wide; gill- 
rakers long and slender; branchiostegals 8; no pseudo- 
branchiz. -Photophores conspicuous, in two rows on each 
side of belly, the upper row ceasing at front of anal; some 
