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taken. It is named for Mr. Timothy Hopkins, founder 

 of the Hopkins Seaside Laboratory at Monterey. Since 

 this description was written, numerous additional exam- 

 ples have been secured. It is evidently not rare about 

 Monterey. 



37. Sebastodes eigenmanni Cramer, n. sp. Plate xlii. 



Head 2 t \; depth 2J- D. ^,114; A. Ill, 8; P. 18 

 (|); Lat. i; pores 41 ( + 2 on base of caudal); trans- 

 verse rows of scales 41. 



Body compressed, its width (behind opercles) about 

 2}4 in its depth. Greatest width of head 2-f in its length. 

 Profile steep; interorbital space flat, 5^ in head; supra- 

 ocular and parietal ridges quite well developed, the former 

 flat, the latter diverging backward. Preocular, supra- 

 ocular, postocular, tympanic and parietal spines present, 

 not very large, but sharp; a curved shallow groove at 

 each side of the interorbital space inside of the supra- 

 ocular ridges. Orbit large, nearly circular, 2% i n head, 

 its upper rim on a level with the profile. Snout short, 

 about equal to interorbital width; preorbital moderate, 

 with two small sharp spines directed downward and back- 

 ward; maxillary 24 in head, reaching a little beyond ver- 

 tical from posterior edge of pupil; mandible projecting 

 somewhat, with a moderate symphysealknob. The upper- 

 most preopercular spine small, directed a little upward, 

 the second longest, horizontal, the fourth and fifth small, 

 but evident; upper opercular sbine slender and sharp, 

 the lower shorter. Gill-rakers long and slender, about 

 2% in the orbit, 23 on horizontal limb of first arch. 

 Scales rough, ctenoid, those on opercles, cheeks and in- 

 terorbital space and snout somewhat rough ; those on 

 maxillary, mandible and breast mostly cycloid; very few 

 accessory scales. Spines, of first dorsal moderate, the 



