FISHES FROM PORT LUDLOW, WASHINGTON. 55 1 



Family EMBIOTOCID^. 

 9. Cymatogaster aggregatus Gibbons. 



Family SCORP^ENID/E. 



10. Sebastodes caurinus (Richardson). 



Family HEXAGRAMMID^. 



11. Hexagrammus asper S teller. 



12. Ophiodon elongatus Girard. 



Family COTTID^:. 



13. Chitonotus pugettensis (Steindachner). 

 One specimen dredged. 



14. Icelinus strabo Starks n. sp. 



Head 2^ in body; depth 4; D. IX-15; anal 13; eye 

 4 in head; maxillary 2-f ; snout 4. 



Body robust at shoulders, tapering into a rather slender 

 caudal peduncle ; upper profile of head evenly curved 

 from snout to dorsal, the snout rather steep; mouth hori- 

 zontal and placed at the extreme lower aspect of head ; 

 upper jaw projecting slightly beyond the lower; narrow 

 bands of villiform teeth on jaws, vomer, and palatines; 

 maxillary reaching about to posterior margin of eye. 



Nasal spines prominent; upper spine of preopercle 

 longer than eye, extending upward and backward, and 

 bearing on its inner edge one or two antler-like processes ; 

 below it on edge of preopercle are two small spines, the 

 upper rather blunt and not conspicuous, the lower longer 

 and sharp, pointing downward and somewhat forward; on 

 each side of occiput is a small blunt tubercle, a short 

 dermal flap behind each eye, and one sometimes present 

 behind each occipital tubercle. 



