FISHES OF PUGET SOUND. 819 
pectoral rays; pectoral dusky. First dorsal with 3 rows 
of spots across the rays, a very narrow brown border to 
fin; second dorsal with similar spots, not arranged in rows; 
anal light above, uniform brown below; ventrals white; 
caudal fin dark at base with 3 or four dark spots towards 
middle of fin. 
_ One specimen collected at Robin Island, by Capt. J. G. 
Blair. It is 8 inches in length. 
Podothecus veternus Jordan & Starks, n. sp. Plate 
Tx. 
Head 3% in length; depth 7%; dorsal IX-8; anal 8; 
pectoral 15; lateral plates 36; orbit 44 in head; snout 
24; upper rays of pectoral 1%; highest dorsal spine 2% ; 
highest dorsal ray 23; highest anal ray 23; caudal 2%. 
Body elongate, about as wide as deep anteriorly, much 
wider than deep posteriorly; mouth inferior, the lower 
jaw shutting far behind the upper; teeth on jaws, vomer, 
and palatines obsolete; afew short barbels beneath snout 
in front of mouth, and at angle of mouth: their length 
about equal to pupil; bones of lower jaw extensively cav- 
ernous. 
A pair of short blunt rostral spines pointing directly 
forwards; at their base and wider apart is a pair of sharp 
spines curving outwards, backwards and upwards; at the 
posterior end of the rather wide rostral groove are a pair 
of small spines pointing upwards and backwards; from 
their base a pair of diverging ridges run through the in- 
terorbital to above posterior margin of orbit. No me- 
dian or movable spine at tip of snout. A strong spine 
over eye, and a longer one at occiput; a low sharp 
ridge on side of head, running from ocular spine and end- 
ing in a low spine at upper end of gill-opening; a very 
low ridge on opercle not ending in a spine; preopercle 
with a strong spine with a wide keel-like base; a hooked 
