122 NEW SPECIES OF STARGAZER—BEAN. 
posterior end. The exposed portion of the maxilla is traversed by 
radiating strize. The lower limb of the preoperculum has three stout — 
spines along its lower border. The length of the humeral spine (15 
millimeters) is one-third the length of the head. The humerus is very 
strongly rugose on its upper border. Three short spines on the anterior 
edge of the preorbital. Teeth in villiform bands in the intermaxillary 
and mandible and on the vomer. Palatines in a very short band. A 
cavity between the head of the vomer and the processes of the intermax- 
illary ending in a semicircular canal behind, which is separated from 
the anterior cavity by a flap of skin. Gill openings very wide and only 
narrowly attached to the isthmus, leaving a free posterior border. 
Pseudobranchie present, small. A small narrow slit behind the last 
gill; its length about two-thirds that of the eye. Gill rakers tubercular, 
nine on the anterior arch. A pair of short but stout spines in front of 
the ventrals. The origin of the dorsal is a little nearer to the root of 
the caudal than to the tip of the snout; it is midway between the base 
of the caudal and the middle of the eye. The length of the dorsal base 
(43 millimeters) is about one-third of the standard length. The third 
ray is the longest, its length (20 millimeters) being nearly one-half the 
length of the base of the fin. The last ray is about as long as the eye, 
and the first is scarcely longer than this. The anal origin is directly 
under that of the dorsal, and the base of the fin is slightly longer than 
that of the dorsal. The seventh, eighth, and ninth anal rays are about 
the longest, their length (17 millimeters) equalling about one-half that of 
the middle caudal rays. The first ray is not much more than one-half 
as long as the longest and the rays gradually increase in size to the 
ninth. Thé length of the pectoral (35 millimeters) is contained three and 
one-half times in the standard length. The length of the lowermost 
ray is less than one-fourth the length of the head. Only the first ray 
is simple; the rest are divided. The ventral origin is under the eye. 
The longest ray of the ventral (24 millimeters) is slightly shorter than 
the mandible. Caudal slightly rounded when expanded; the middle 
rays as long as the head without the snout. The lateral line begins 
near the root of the humeral spine, curves upward slightly and runs 
along the back to the end of the dorsal, then curves downward to near 
the middle of the caudal base. Skin naked. Colors: Upper parts light 
brown, the upper surface of the head minutely dotted with white; the 
back with numerous roundish spots and oblong blotches of whitish; 
lower parts pale. The dorsal with two or three dark blotches near the 
margin, in some cases not much larger than the eye, in others fully twice 
as long. Caudal with nine black blotches, those on the outer rays — 
largest, differing in size in different specimens. These blotches are — 
distributed over the greater portion of the fin. Anal pale, with the — 
exception of a brownish blotch on the membrane of the last three rays. 
Pectoral with a brownish submarginal band on its outer half; this band — 
sometimes broken up on the membrane. Ventrals pale. 
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