FISHES OF PUGET SOUND. 835 
downward to the third or fourth ray of pectoral. Dorsal 
fin low, continuous, not joined to caudal, beginning slightly 
before anal, on a vertical with vent; vent midway between 
edge of ventral disk and front of anal. Pectoral fin 
emarginate, the upper lobe 13 in head, the lower 2, the 
shortest intervening rays 3. Anal long and low, barely 
joined to caudal. Caudal 1% in head. 
Color olivaceous, darker above; body and pectoral fin 
finely speckled with olive brown; fins dotted; bases of 
the fins paler than their tips; belly white. 
Two specimens 4% inches long, in excellent condition, 
taken in Elliot Bay, near Seattle, were received from the - 
Young Naturalists’ Society. They are numbered 3126 
in the register of the Leland Stanford Jr. University Mu- 
seum. This species, not been previously recognized 
since its original description, is recorded by Dr. Gilbert 
from Unalaska. 
g8. Liparis dennyi Jordan and Starks, n. sp. Plate 
XCViil. 
Head 32 in length of body; depth 4%; dorsal 39; anal 
30; pectoral 36; caudal12; eye8inhead; maxillary 21; 
snout 234; gill-opening 22; upper pectoral lobe % ; lower 
lobe 1%; intervening rays 24; ventral disk 2%; high- 
est dorsal rays 22; highest anal rays 23; caudalrays 134. 
Body moderately elongate, much compressed posteri- 
orly, slightly so anteriorly; head moderate, the cheeks 
and nape prominent. Mouth wide, with little lateral cleft; 
maxillary extending to below the anterior margin of eye, 
its end covered with the skin of the head; the lower jaw 
slightly the longer; the teeth tricuspid, those on the inner 
part of jaw largest, arranged in about 14 series in each 
jaw; series nearly transverse on middle of jaw, becoming 
more and more oblique towards the sides, where they are 
nearly parallel with the sides of the jaws; interorbital 
