FISHES OF PUGET SOUND. S15 
The posterior end of the prominent ridge, which runs 
backward from the superior orbital rim on each side, is 
formed Ly the epiotic process. It ends in the form of a 
long ‘‘occipital spine;’’ almost directly under it is the 
short parotic process. 
The post-temporal is short, wide and flat; its upper end 
is attached to the inner side of the epiotic spine, and for 
the whole length of its anterior edge, to the skull between 
the epiotic and parotic processes. _ From its lower inner 
surface it sends a wide thin bone, which is firmly fastened 
to the base of the skull. It bears a backward projecting 
spine on its lower end, inside of which the supra-clavicle 
is attached. 
Actinosts large, wide and thin, without an opening 
between them. Subopercle absent; preopercle large, 
sending a spine backwards; opercle triangular on its 
lower inner angle, the interopercle is developed and 
strongly coossified with it; it sends a slender process for- 
ward under the preopercle; a projection downward from 
the posterior end of the articular; suborbital wide, thin 
and concavo-convex, its convex surface outwards. Skull 
without basal chamber; vertebra 10-14. 
Family AGONID. 
84. Aspidophoroides inermis Giinther. 
The type from Vancouver Island recorded by Giinther. 
85. Bothragonus swani (Steindachner). 
Known only from the type taken near Port Townsend. 
86. Pallasina barbata (Steindachner). 
Taken at Port Angeles by the Albatross. 
This species is the type of the genus Pa//asina Cramer, 
distinguished from Brachyopsis by the long, Syngnathus- 
like body, and by the presence of a long barbel at the 
