FISHES OF PUGET SOUND. 803 
and sharply serrate. Gill-membranes united, free from 
isthmus; a slit behind last gill. Spinous dorsal with very 
long base of about 17 spines, longer than the soft dorsal; 
anal long; ventrals 1, 5, inserted behind base of pecto- 
Fails: 
JORDANIA ZONOPE Starks. 
Head 3% in length of body; depth 5%; dorsal XVII- 
15; anal 22; lateral line 50; orbit 3% in head; maxilla- 
ry 3%; longest dorsal spine 1%; longest dorsal ray 21; 
longest anal ray 2% ; length of ventrals 134; pectorals 4 
longer than head; caudal 14. 
Body rather elongate, compressed posteriorly, not much 
anteriorly, the back not elevated; dorsal and ventral out- 
lines almost straight from head to caudal peduncle. 
Head not large, profile from front of dorsal to eyes 
nearly horizontal and straight, then abruptly turning 
steeply downward to end of snout, lower profile gently 
curved from chin to ventral fins. 
Mouth small, the maxillary not reaching the vertical 
from front of orbit; jaws about equal or the lower slightly 
projecting; teeth in villiform bands on jaws, vomer, and 
palatines; eyes large, set high in head, a little shorter 
than snout; interorbital space deeply concave, half as 
wide as eye; a slip of skin, half as long as the diameter 
of the eye, over the anterior edge of each eye, and a 
longer one over the posterior edge; a few minute fleshy 
slips on nape; nasal spines long and sharp, somewhat 
curved back; spine on preopercle simple, hooked up, a 
minute spine above it, and a blunt spine below; posterior 
end of interopercle prominent, forming a blunt spine; 
_opercle produced posteriorly in a flap, which lies in a 
shallow groove in the shoulder girdle; no opercular spine: 
gill-membranes united, but not joined to the isthmus; a 
distinct slit behind fourth gill arch; branchiostegals 5. 
