FISHES OF PUGET SOUND. 817 
apart is a pair of spines which point upwards, backwards 
and slightly outwards; running backwards from these are 
the ridges that bound the wide groove in which the max- 
illary process fits; these approach each other behind and 
end in sharp spines which point backwards and upwards; 
these spines are midway between middle of eye and 
the spines behind rostral spines; no median or mova- 
ble spine at tip of snout; a pair of large spines above 
posterior third of eye and a pair of larger ones at occiput, 
these are continuous with the dorsal ridges; a curved 
ridge running from superior orbital rim and ending in a 
small spine just above opercle; a small ridge on opercle; 
preopercle with a large spine; a couple of spines below eye 
at lower edge of suborbitals, running from them to tip of 
snout is a ridge along lower edge of preorbitals; it is 
somewhat irregular but without spines; interorbital space 
wide and deeply concave, a pair of ridges on each side, 
converging forwards; supraorbital rim prominent; ante- 
rior nostril ending in a short, wide, conical papilla, with 
a small opening at the apex; no noticeable depression at 
occiput. 
Dorsal ridges converging from the occiput to behind 
the soft dorsal; they unite on the second plate behind the 
base of last dorsal ray, this is continued as a single ridge 
on about 8 plates where it becomes obsolete; the upper 
lateral ridge follows the course of the lateral line to about 
the middle of spinous dorsal, where it slants sharply up- 
ward and is continued to tail above lateral line; lateral 
line midway between upper and lower lateral ridges pos- 
teriorly; a single spine above base of pectoral indicating 
an obsolete ridge between the lateral ridges; lower lateral 
ridge becoming obsolete under. pectoral on 2 or 3 plates 
behind its base; abdominal ridges widest apart behind 
base of ventrals, uniting directly behind anal base and 
Proc. Cau. ACAD. Scr., 2D SER., Vou. V. December 18, 1895. 
