832 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 
This small specimen taken in a’rock pool on Waadda 
Island, Neah Bay. Length 2 inches. 
A second specimen, about 5 inches long, is in the Muse- 
um of the California Academy of Sciences. It was col- 
lected off San Francisco by Mr. H. D. Dunn. In this 
specimen, the dorsal rays are VI—-27; anal 25; pectoral 
30; caudal 15; teeth blunt. Flesh firm; form and color 
of the young specimens above described. The species 
is named for Mrs. Flora Hartley Greene, Assistant Cu- 
rator of the Museum of Leland Stanford Jr. University. 
In the Museum of the California Academy is the only 
specimen we have ever seen of the rare /Veolzparis muco- 
sus (Ayres), likewise obtained at San Francisco by Mr. H. 
D. Dunn. We here present a description and figure of 
this specimen (No. 360): 
Neoliparis mucosus (Ayres). Plate xcv. 
Head 4 in length; depth 4%; dorsal VI-26; anal 26; 
pectoral 29; caudal 12; eye 7 in head; snout 3; ventral 
disk 134; pectoral 13; longest dorsal ray 2; highest anal 
fay 2; caudalory = 
Body not greatly elongate, rather robust, compressed 
posteriorly, holding its width well past middle of body; 
head short and thick, broader than body, % longer than 
broad, its length 13 times its depth; mouth small, trun- 
cate, its cleft almost entirely anterior, scarcely extending 
laterally; end of maxillary buried under the skin, barely 
reaching to eye; nostrils not ending in tubes; lower jaw 
slightly the shorter; teeth sharp, tricuspid, the middle 
cusp much the highest and longest, arranged in nine ob- 
lique series in both jaws, becoming more and more oblique 
toward the sides; interorbital space moderately wide, 
about 3% in head, a little convex; gill-slit not extending 
below upper edge of pectoral, its length about 1% times 
eye and 3 in ventral disk. 
