S02 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 
59. Oxylebius pictus Gill. Plate Ixxviii. 
Not uncommon, living among the rocks near shore. 
Not taken by us. 
60. Zaniolepis latipinnis Girard. 
Rare in Puget Sound. It reaches a length of a foot. 
Two specimens obtained by Prof. O. B. Johnson are in 
the Museum of the Young Naturalists’ Society. 
61. Anoplopoma fimbria (Pallas). Buack Cop; 
BESHOWE. 
Common in Puget Sound, where it is valued as a food 
fish. It reaches a length of 40 inches. 
Family COTTIDAL. 
62. Jordania zonope Starks. Plate Ixxix. 
Fordania zonope Starks, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci., Phila., 
1895, p. 410. The three type specimens of this singular 
fish were collected in channel rocks near Point Orchard. 
The largest specimen (No. 3124 L. S. Jr. Univ.) is 4 
inches long. This species has 10-++-36=46 vertebrae, a 
number considerably in excess of that found in the related 
genera /celus and Artedzius. 
The following is the original description of Fordanza 
Zonope: 
Genus JORDANIA Starks. 
Allied but not closely to 7Zrzg/opfs and Chitonotus. 
Body elongate, not greatly compressed; head moder- 
ate, partly scaled, with dermal flaps above. Mouth mod- 
erate, with bands of villiform teeth on jaws, vomer, and 
palatines. Body above lateral line closely covered with 
strongly ctenoid scales; lower half of body with narrow, 
parallel plate-like folds of skin, running obliquely down- 
ward and backward from lateral line to within a short 
distance of anal fin, the posterior edge of each fold finely 
