FISHES OF PUGET SOUND. 827 
uniform gray with the exception of a dark spot at occiput; 
belly dusky; dorsals somewhat mottled; anal black, with 
a white spot near its middle; pectorals white, with a large 
black spot on base of rays; ventral black, abruptly white 
at tips; caudal black, edged with white. | 
One specimen brought up in the dredge, 1% inches in 
length. Itisin the Leland Stanford Jr. University Mu- 
seum, number 3130. 
This species seems to represent a new subgeneric or 
generic type, allied to Averruncus, distinguished by the 
supraocular spine and by the subequal rays of both dor- 
sals, the last of each not adnate to the body. 
go. Xenochirus triacanthus Gilbert. Plate xciii. 
Rare; brought up in the dredge in company with 
Odontopyxis trispinosus. One specimen obtained, 3% 
inches in length. In this young example, here figured, 
the lower rays of the pectoral are not produced. 
gi. Odontopyxis trispinosus Lockington. 
Abundant in deep water; the most common species 
brought up by the dredge. Length 4 inches. In this 
genus and in Venochirus there is a movable spine or long 
plate on median line at tip of snout. 
Family CYCLOPTERID. 
g2. Lethotremus vinolentus Jordan and Starks, n. sp. 
Plate xciv. 
Head 24% in length; depth 24%; dorsal V—7; anal 6; 
eye 3 in head; snoutnearly 4; maxillary 2% ; interorbital 
2%; ventral disk 1%; height of spinous dorsal 2% ; 
length of pectoral 234. 
Body short and thick, broadest at head, deepest in front 
of first dorsal spine, abruptly compressed at vent; back 
somewhat elevated. 
