FISHES OF PUGET SOUND. 847 
116. Xiphistes ulve Jordan & Starks, n. gen. and n. sp. 
Plate’ cit. 
Head 8 in length of body; depth 10; dorsal LXXIV; 
anal III, 48; eye 5 in head; maxillary 234; pectoral 3%. 
Body eel-shaped as in the related species 1. ch7rus; 
head short; mouth small, oblique, maxillary extending to 
below posterior margin of eye; jaws subequal, with ca- 
nine teeth; 4 enlarged canines in front of lower jaw; 
teeth in upper jaw gradually enlarged from behind for- 
wards; eye moderate, equal to length of snout; interor- 
bital space prominent, sharply convex, narrower than 
width of eye; nape not constricted. 
Five mucous canals radiating downwards and _ back- 
wards from eye, not reaching to edge of preopercle; the 
branches running upwards from upper lateral line ending 
on the membrane of dorsal, the lower lateral line not 
connected with the abdominal line. Lateral line other- 
wise as in Azphestcs chirus. Origin of dorsal at a dis- 
tance behind nape equal to distance from nape to middle 
of eye; the fin posteriorly barely connecting with caudal, 
anal with 3 spines, its origin about a head’s length nearer 
snout than base of caudal, connected with caudal poste- 
riorly; pectorals equal in length to snout and half eye, 
slightly shorter than caudal; caudal rounded, fan-shaped. 
Color olive-green above, very bright green below; 
sides along middle and lateral line posteriorly, with con- 
spicuous white spots, half as large as pupil, each with a 
black spot before and behind it; a black streak from tip 
of snout, through eye, to nape, a streak starting from eye 
behind quickly fading out; dorsal darker than body, un- 
marked; the anterior third of anal green without mark- 
ings, behind this, faint cross-bars of brown appear, these 
grow broader and darker posteriorly; caudal olive green 
with a light bar across base; pectorals green without 
markings. 
