814 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 
row on its side; a few spines on the base of the pectoral 
and anal rays. 
Dorsal spines very weak, fitting in a groove in the back; 
soft dorsal higher than spinous, the tips of the rays reach- 
ing the base of caudal fin; anal short, few rayed, reach- 
ing slightly beyond soft dorsal; pectorals pointed, their 
lower rays entirely free, reaching about to the base of the 
third anal ray; ventrals reaching to ends of pectorals, 
their origin behind the lower part of pectoral base a dis- 
tance equal to the length of snout; caudal rounded be- 
hind. 
Body creamy yellow, with conspicuous irregular dark 
stripes, edged with black, running obliquely across the 
body; similar stripes radiating from the eye in all direc- 
tions, one to end of snout, a triangular one downwards, 
one running backwards and downwards, to middle of 
preopercle, then turning upwards and running nearly to 
occipital spine, two or three short ones above; each of 
these involving the membrane of eye; 2 or 3 black- bor- 
dered dark spots on edge of opercle; a light yellow streak 
surrounded by black across caudal peduncle, behind which 
all is bright cherry-red to the end of caudal fin; two 
similar spots on base of pectoral; top of head crossed 
with wavy black-edged dark bars; tip of lower jaw 
black; a line of black spots running along under parts of 
mandible; fins all bright red, each ray of dorsal with a 
sharp black spot at its base, a few spots on dorsal spines; 
anal, pectorals, and ventrals, dark at base. 
One specimen, 3 inches in length, collected in a rock 
pool, on Channel Rocks near Point Orchard, by Miss 
Adella M. Parker of Seattle; a second specimen, pre- 
sented by the Young Naturalists’ Society. The skel- 
eton of this specimen has been prepared. It shows the 
following characters: 
