828 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 
Mouth terminal, oblique, the jaws about equal; snout 
very blunt; maxillary reaching slightly past the vertical 
from front of eye; teeth in narrow villiform bands; teeth 
on vomer (the specimen is so small, we cannot be sure 
of the palatine teeth) ;' eye large, set high in the head, 
its diameter greater than the length of the snout; inter- 
orbital wide and flat, the diameter contained 1% times in 
the width; gill-opening oblique, about as wide as eye and 
on a level with eye; disk 1% longer than broad, its length 
about equal to distance from gill-opening to anterior edge 
of eye. 
Skin thick; head and body nearly naked, a few spines 
scattered over it; spinous dorsal with 3 or 4 small spines, 
a minute simple spine in front of eye and 2 or 3 above 
it; 4 multifid spines following the curve of back, under 
spinous dorsal, and 1 under the front of second dorsal, 2 
similar spines on each side of nape, just above opercles; 
2 on edge of opercle and 3 on edge of preopercle; an 
irregular row of 6 running from above base of pectoral 
to front of anal fin, and a couple of small ones behind 
gill-opening; body otherwise naked. Allthe above spines, 
with the exception of those noted as simple, are long sharp 
spines in groups of from 3 to 6 with a common base, gen- 
erally the length of each spine exceeds the length of the 
base. No lateral line. 
Spinous dorsal reaching to the first ray of soft dorsal 
when fin is depressed, higher than soft dorsal; anal and 
soft dorsal similar; caudal small, truncate or slightly 
rounded; pectorals very short, reaching to the posterior 
edge of ventral disk. 
Color bright wine-red, slightly lighter below, without 
markings, sides dusted over with very small dark points; 
spinous dorsal dusky; other fins colorless. Colors dis- 
appear in alcohol. 
