558 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Mats Mats Bay. and a small one dredged from moderately 

 deep water. 



Family PSYCHROLUTID^. 



27. Psychrolutes paradoxus Giinther. 



(Psychrolutes zebra Bean.) 



First recorded last year from this locality, where a 

 single small specimen was dredged. This year it was 

 found to be extremely abundant, and was taken with the 

 seine and dredge. 



According to Dr. Boulenger, the original type of P. 

 paradoxus agrees perfectly with our figure of P. zebra, 

 and the two are not distinct. 



Family RHAMPHOCOTTID^. 



28. Rhamphocottus richardsoni Giinther. 



A few small specimens taken with the dredge. 



Family AGONID^. 



29. Aspidophoroides inermis Giinther. 

 One specimen dredged. 



30. Pallasina aix* Starks n. sp. Plate lxxv. 



Head from tip of snout 4 in body; depth 3*^ in head; 

 dorsal VII-7 ; anal 11 ; pectoral 11; eye S/i i n head. 



Mouth rather oblique, the lower jaw much projecting; 

 upper edge of maxillary slipping under preorbital for its 

 whole length, its posterior end midway between tip of 

 snout and middle of eye; villiform teeth on jaws and 

 vomer, none apparently on palatines; lower jaw with a 

 fleshy tip, scarcely produced into a barbel, scarcely as 

 long as diameter of pupil; supraorbital rim prominent, 



*&'£, a goat, from the pointed beard, or «;'r, a darter from the slender 

 form. 



