14 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



The specimens of S. riifiis are: one .54 m. long taken 

 off Point Loma November 14, and one .37 m. long taken 

 December 10 at the same place. We have no bona fide 

 specimens of 5". entoinelas and have used both the original 

 description* and the modified description in Jordan & Gil- 

 bert's Synopsis of North American Fishes. 



Head 3; depth 3/2 (3^3 in ovaHs) ; D. XIII, 14^; A. 

 Ill, 8^ ; 56 pores in lateral line. 



Compressed, elongate; profile straight, less steep than 

 in ovalis, the snout broader. Maxillary reaching to mid- 

 dle or little beyond middle of eye. Mandible with a 

 prominent S3'mphvseal knob. Interorbital slightly convex, 

 as wide as orbit in smaller specimen, wider in the larger. 

 Preocular, supraocular, postocular, tympanic and occi- 

 pital spines present, the last with a distinct spine at tip; 

 the occipital ridges higher, narrower, more diverging and 

 more conspicuous than in oi'alis. The preocular as fully 

 developed as in ovalis. (The postocular absent in entom- 

 elas.) 



Eye moderate, orbit slightly longer than snout, 3^-4 

 in head. 



Preorbital very narrow, about 4 in the orbit, with two 

 small backward-directed spines ; (no spines in entonielas .^ 

 Preopercular spines long and slender, all of them longer 

 and stronger than in ovalis, the lower two very long, the 

 second reaching beyond base of third, not nearly reach- 

 ing base of third in ovalis. ("The two lower obsolete" 

 in entoinelas.) 



Head entirely covered with moderate sized scales, those 

 of the body larger. 



Outline of spinous dorsal little arched, the highest spine 

 slightly more than 3 (2^ in ovalis) in the head, the high- 



* Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iS8o, 142. 



