848 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 
One specimen obtained on Waadda Island, Neah Bay. 
It was found high on the rocks, among alge just below 
high water mark. Length 5 inches. 
This species is very closely related to A7zphistes chirus. 
It differs from it chiefly in having 3 anal spines, in the 
branches of the upper lateral line running higher, and in 
coloration. It is numbered 3132 on the register of the 
Leland Stanford Jr. University Museum. 
117. Xiphidion rupestre (Jordan & Gilbert). Plate ciii. 
Equally abundant with A7phidion mucosum under rocks 
about Neah Bay. It does not reach such a large size as 
the latter. 
118. Xiphidion mucosum Girard. 
Abundant at Neah Bay, where it was found under rocks 
between tide marks, in company with. rafesire. Reaches 
a length of 18 inches. 
Family STICHAIDZ. 
11g. Lumpenus anguillaris (Pallas). 
Taken in abundance with seines along sandy beaches 
in Puget Sound. It reaches a length of 20 inches. 
Family CRYPTACANTHODIDE. 
120. Delolepis virgatus Bean. 
A stuffed skin from near Seattle is in the collection of 
the Young Naturalists’ Society, collected by Prof. O. B. 
Johnson. 
Family ANARRHICHADID. 
121. Anarrhichthys ocellatus (Ayres). Wo.ur Fisu. 
Rare in Puget Sound; more common southward. It 
reaches a length of 8 feet, and is sometimes eaten. It 
feeds on crustacea and mussels, which it pulls off from 
the rocks and crushes between its powerful jaws. 
