FISHES OF PUGET SOUND. 805 
around posterior margin of orbit, downward along margin 
of preopercle, and ending on posterior end of. interoper- 
cle; snout abruptly black, lips dark: fins all dark and 
slightly mottled, tips of ventral, anal, and caudal rays a 
little lighter; caudal and pectoral dark at base; slips on 
top of head black; belly very finely dusted with minute 
dark points. 
This species is not uncommon in Puget Sound; the 
types are three specimens taken in channel rocks at 
Point Orchard, near Seattle, by Miss Maud Parker and 
Mr. Adam Hubbert, members of the Young Naturalists’ 
Society of Seattle. The largest of these is 4 inches in 
length. The types are in the Museum of the Leland 
Stanford Junior University, numbered 3124. Unfortu- 
nately the life colors of this brilliant species were not 
taken. There is in life much red on the lateral plates 
and elsewhere on the body and fins. ‘This disappears at 
once in alcohol. 
63. Radulinus asprellus Gilbert. Plate lxxxi. 
Not common; two specimens dredged near Seattle, the 
larger about 4 inches in length. 
64. Chitonotus pugettensis (Steindachner). 
Not common; two specimens obtained with a seine. 
It reaches a length of g inches. 
65. Ruscarius meanyi Jordan & Starks, n. gen. and sp. 
webvate Ixex: 
Head 2% in length; depth 3%; dorsal X-14; anal 12; 
lateral line 6-32; orbit 4 in head; maxillary 2; snout 4; 
highest dorsal spine 3; highest dorsal ray 3; pectoral 
1%; ventrals 2%; caudal 2%. 
Body robust, deepest and broadest at shoulders, taper- 
ing quickly backwards into a slender caudal peduncle; 
back somewhat elevated; ventral outline nearly straight 
