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15. Triglops beani Gilbert. 

 One specimen dredged. 



16. Artedius asperulus Starks n. sp. 



Head 2^ in body; depth 4; D. IX-16; A. 12; eye 4 

 in head; maxillary 2^ ; snout 4. 



Profile of head broadly rounded from tip of snout to 

 occiput, the snout very steep; lower outline of head 

 nearly horizontal, mouth at lower aspect of head little if 

 any oblique; maxillary reaching to below middle of eye; 

 villiform teeth on jaws, vomer, and palatines; nasal spines 

 prominent, preopercular process short, bifurcate, the en- 

 tire spine covered with skin ; three small spines developed 

 on edge of preopercle below it; top of head naked, with 

 many mucous pores; interorbital space narrow, concave, 

 its width about half eye. A wide band of strongly 

 ctenoid scales along back, starting opposite front of 

 spinous dorsal, and below it a distance equal to pupil, 

 gradually running upward and nearly touching the base 

 of soft dorsal, joining its fellow of the opposite side 

 behind dorsal, and continuing on caudal peduncle to 

 midway between last ray of dorsal and base of caudal; 

 at its widest part, under front of soft dorsal, it is 9 scales 

 wide in an oblique series; 33 oblique series in its length; 

 lateral line armed with 35 ctenoid scales in a single 

 series; all the scales are imbedded on their lower ante- 

 rior edges and ctenoid on their upper posterior edges; 

 naked area between lateral line and band of scales, at its 

 widest part narrower than band of scales. Spinuous 

 dorsal rounded in outline, not joined to soft dorsal; pec- 

 toral reaching to base of seventh or eighth ray of soft 

 dorsal; ventrals reaching vent. 



Color olive-brown, with four or five dark, irregular 

 cross-bars on back, which break up and form reticula- 



Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 2d Ser., Vol. VI. (38) December 2,1896. 



