FISHES OF PUGET SOUND. 821 
Color in spirits, reddish-brown above, light below; 
‘narrow, irregular, transverse dark streaks across back and 
sides; a longitudinal dark bar along each side of base of 
both dorsals; a dark streak forward from eye; margin of 
spinous dorsal blackish; soft dorsal with a small spot be- 
hind, a dark spot on pectoral rays near their base and 
some dark bars behind it across rays; anal and ventrals 
colorless; caudal dusky. 
A single specimen collected by Capt. J. G. Blair at 
Robin Island, about 8 inches in length. 
Related to P. aczfenserinus and P. gtlbert:. It difters 
from the former in having fewer and shorter barbels, 
teeth on jaws obsolete, keel and preopercle larger; dorsal 
ridges without spines posteriorly, and the spines on the 
preorbital ridge different in shape; from the latter in 
having the body different in shape, not everywhere deeper 
than wide, but the reverse posteriorly; anal much shorter 
and lower; no teeth on jaws, and the spines on preorbital 
ridge better developed and different in shape. 
Allied to Podothecus is the genus S‘te/g7s Cramer, of 
which Podothecus vulsus is the type. It is distinguished 
from Podothecus mainly by the comparative lack of bar- 
bels and by details of armature. We present a figure of 
the species drawn from the original type of S?e/g7s vulsus, 
the only specimen yet known. (Plate xc.) 
88. Averruncus emmelane Jordan & Starks, n. gen. and 
Spe ) late ict. 
Head from tips of rostral spines 4 in length of body; 
depth 7%; dorsal VIII or IX-8; anal 11; pectoral 14; 
lateral line 35; orbit 4 in head; snout to tips of rostral 
spines 3%; maxillary 334; interorbital 6% ; pectoral 13; 
second dorsal spine 22; third dorsal ray 2% ; longest anal 
ray 23; caudal fin 2. 
Body elongate, subcylindrical, the caudal peduncle long 
