FISHES OF PUGET SOUND. 809 
orbit 4 in head; snout 4; maxillary 2%; highest dorsal 
spine 2%; dorsal ray 134; anal ray 134; length of cau- 
dal fin 12; ventrals 11; pectorals 2% in body. 
Body elongate, compressed, back slightly elevated, 
deepest under spinous dorsal; caudal peduncle moder- 
ately slender. Skin perfectly smooth. 
Head small, tapering rapidly forward to the rather 
sharp snout as viewed from above; profile of head, 
straight below, acutely and evenly rounded above; mouth 
terminal, horizontal; maxillary reaching to the verti- 
cal from the middle of pupil; lower jaw included; teeth 
on jaws, vomer and palatines, in narrow villiform bands; 
process of premaxillary prominent, extending slightly above 
nasal spines, giving the appearance of three spines above 
snout; eye set high in head, the orbit as long as snout; 
preopercular spine short, blunt and triangular, entirely 
covered with the skin; edge of preopercle below, entire; 
opercle ending ina short flap; top of head with two rows 
of *‘mossy’’ cirri, running from the superior orbital mar- 
gin, curving over head and continuing on lateral line; 
they disappear on its anterior third. 
Dorsal spines rather stout, the fin lower than soft dorsal, 
rounded in outline; soft dorsal well separated from spinous, 
the front of fin the highest; pectorals long, the eighth ray 
the longest, rendering the fin pointed behind; it reaches to 
the base of about the seventh dorsalray. The pectoral rays 
below the eighth are swollen, and posteriorly free from 
the membrane; anal about as high as soft dorsal, the rays 
somewhat swollen and more or less free; ventrals long, 
reaching about to front of anal, their insertion behind 
base of pectoral, a distance equal to the snout and eye; 
caudal fin slightly rounded. 
Color varying from light green to a rich maroon; traces 
of 5 or 6 dark cross-bars on back, lower parts dusky with 
small light spots; belly white; a dark bar from eye to 
