120 NEW FISHES FROM PACIFIC COAST GILBERT. 



85. Citharichthys xanthostigma sp. uov. 



D. 81-86: A. G3-67. Lat. 1. 50. Vertebra, 11+26. 



In external appearance most closely resembling C. sorclidus, to 

 which, however, it is not closely related, differing in number of scales, 

 fin rays, and vertebrae, and in the size and number of gill-rakers. 



Body deep, varying from 2^ (in young, 3 inches long) to 2-^0 (7 

 inches long) in length of body. Profile angulated above front of upper 

 eye, the snout convexly projecting. Depth of caudal peduncle one- 

 third head. Lower eye in advance, the vertical from front of the upper 

 passing through front of lower pupil. 



Mouth rather small, the outline somewhat curved, the maxillary 

 reaching the vertical from front of lower pupil, 3 to 3;^ in head ; mandi- 

 ble with a sharp downward-directed point at symphysis. Teeth in a 

 single close-set series in each jaw, growing slightly larger anteriorly, 

 but without canines. Anterior nostril with a short tube, and a narrow 

 flap arising from its inner edge. luterorbital width 3f to 5 in orbit, 

 slighily concave, the lower ridge mucli stronger and hi-, her than the 

 upper; scaled posteriorly. Eye large, the upper orbit 3^ to 3- in liead. 

 Gill-rakers rather long and slender, coarsely dentate on inner margin, 

 distant, ten or eleven on anterior limb of arch. 



Scales large, in regular series, appearing cycloid, but the edges very 

 minutely spinous. Lateral line gently rising on anterior third, but 

 without curve. Fifty vertical series of scales, with as many pores in 

 lateral line; 13 to 15 horizontal series above lateral line. 



Dorsal beginning immediately behind posterior nostril of blind side, 

 ending so as to leave caudal peduncle free for a distance equaling one- 

 half diameter of eye, 



Ventrals long, reaching beyond origin of anal. 



Pectorals very long and slender, norioally with nine rays, the longest 

 ray on colored side longer than head, about one-third length of body. 



Color: Light olive-brown, irregularly flecked with slaty, and with 

 numerous bright yellow spots broadly ocellated with brownish black : 

 a series of these usually on lateral line, and two others half-way between 

 it and the dorsal and ventral outlines respectively, those of the latter 

 series forming pairs. Fins not conspicuously marked, the i^ectorals 

 sometimes with faint broad dusky cioss-bars. 



Many specimens, trom Stations 3039, 3043, and 3044, Magdalena Bay, 

 in 47 to 74 fathoms. 



86. Citharichthys fragilis sp. uov. 



D. 83-87 ; A. 67-70. Lat. 1. 46-50, Vertebra? 10 + 27. 



Closely related to C. sordidns, fiom which it differs in the fewer ver- 

 tebriB and fin rays and the Inrger scales. The body is elongate, pos- 

 teriorly sharply wedge-shaped, tapering to base of caudal. Anterior 

 profile very conspicuously angulated above front of upper eye, the snout 



