FISHES FROM PORT LUDLOW, WASHINGTON. 555 



Upper profile of head steep from tip of snout to above 

 eyes, thence nearly horizontal; mouth at lower aspect of 

 head, the jaws subequal; maxillary reaching to the verti- 

 cal from pupil; villiform teeth on jaws, vomer, and pala- 

 tines: eye set high in head, its diameter a little less than 

 length of snout; interorbital space nearly concave, its 

 width about half eye ; upper preopercular spine short, its 

 length about a third of eye, very narrowly bifurcate at tip, 

 the forks very small; below it on edge of preopercle is 

 a second spine, small and blunt, and a third scarcely 

 developed; nasal spines prominent. Top of head and 

 upper part of opercles with patches of ctenoid scales, a 

 patch on posterior part of interorbital space and behind 

 eyes, sending a narrow band backwards along each side 

 of head above opercles, and a few in front of dorsal, 

 leaving a seminaked area in front of occiput, which has 

 a few scales scattered over it. Many cirri on top of 

 head scattered among the scales, one above posterior edge 

 of each eye, one over anterior edge of eye, two or three 

 around edge of preopercle, one on end of maxillary, and 

 one at each anterior lateral scale back to about middle of 

 lateral line. A band of rough scales along back, about 

 7 scales wide anteriorly, and composed of about 47 

 oblique series; the scales obliquely imbedded, the upper 

 posterior edges strongly ctenoid, the lower anterior edges 

 imbedded. A naked area of nearly the same width as 

 band between it and spinous dorsal, the band running 

 upwards posteriorly and touching second dorsal at about 

 its middle, running back and joining its fellow of the 

 opposite side behind the second dorsal, and ending mid- 

 way between base of last ray and base of caudal; a 

 single row of 36 scales similar to the others following 

 lateral line. Dorsal spines subequal from the first to the 

 sixth or seventh, the fin not connected with soft dorsal, 



