204 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



LVI; A. 27; P. 20 to 22; C. 22; scales about 200-85. 

 Greatest thickness of body about •§ its depth; length of 

 caudal peduncle if in its least depth, which is i T \ in head. 

 Eye 53^ in head; snout 5^ ; interorbital space 3; max- 

 illary 2^, ending under front of pupil; mandible 2^, its 

 depth 4! ; teeth about §| on each side; lips, snout, and 

 bones about eye naked ; rest of head covered with small 

 scales. Lower jaw with a thick lip slightly fringed on 

 its edge, and with a mesial frenum ; the rounded tip en- 

 tering the profile when the mouth is closed. Three large 

 pores on each ramus of mandible ; behind these three 

 others in a line on horizontal limb of preopercle; three on 

 vertical limb; two close together in front of eye; one near 

 the nostrils, so similar to them that there seems to be 

 three nasal openings; seven on suborbitals; four in two 

 rows behind eye; one above eye, and before upper edge 

 of preopercle ; a horizontal row of five along temporal 

 region, the last and largest of all in opercular flap above 

 gill opening; one at vertex; one between vertex and eye 

 and two on each side of nape. Gill-rakers 8-|-20, the 

 longest half eye. No trace of lateral line. Scales small, 

 resembling those of a salmon, covering the membranes of 

 all the fins on the basal two -thirds. Pectoral as long as 

 head, its base 2^ in head; longest dorsal spine i| ; cau- 

 dal i T V; longest anal ray i|. Color in spirits uniform 

 dusky, without markings on the body, the belly pale, and 

 the side of the head irregularly blotched with lemon yel- 

 low, apparently bright in life, and brightest about the 

 pores of the head. 



Length of type (in the Provincial Museum at Victoria r 

 B. C), 29 inches. 



From Nanaimo, Vancouver Island. Collector, H. T. 

 Stainton. 



The type, in alcohol, has been partly skinned and. 



