830 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 
rounded; gill-rakers short and thick, no longer on the 
outer side of the first arch than on the other arches, fourth 
arch not free; gill-slit short, its length contained about 
3 times in head, its lower edge extending in front of pec- 
toral to about the third ray; opercles with a blunt spine 
which is covered by the skin. 
Dorsals two, connected by a low membrane; first 
dorsal about twice as high as anterior part of second 
dorsal; the first rays of pectorals inserted under eye and 
in front of disk; the anterior rays short, graduated to 
the sixth ray, which is about 4 times longer than the first, 
the next few rays again short and gradually lengthening 
posteriorly; posterior rays % longer than anterior, fin 
broadly rounded behind; ventral disk nearly round, its 
posterior edge reaching the vertical from gill-slit; its 
distance from tip of lower jaw 1% times its length; 
caudal truncate or slightly rounded; vent under ends of 
pectorals. 
Color, in alcohol, uniform brown, breast and lower 
parts of head creamy, fins slightly darker. When fresh 
the sides were blotched with pinkish. 
The type of this species is a specimen 10 inches long, 
in the Leland Stanford Jr. University Museum, number 
3019. It was collected in the Harbor of Victoria by Mr. 
Ashdown H. Green, of Victoria, President of the Nat- 
ural History Society of that town. 
Q5. Neoliparis flore Jordan & Starksn.sp. Plate xcvi. 
Head 33 in length of body; depth at ventral disk 5% ; 
depth under middle of soft dorsal 4%; dorsal VI—27; 
anal 21 to 23; caudal.15; pectoral 30; eye 7 in head; 
interorbital space 234; maxillary 2%; pectoral 13; ven- 
tral disk 2%. 
A small specimen collected at Waadda Island, Neah 
