1916.] Osburn and Nichols, Shore Fishes from Lower California. 147 



to form about four cross bars on throat, closer together on snout and lower jaw; the 

 dark sides with obscure darker specks, the lateral line narrowly pale. 



Type Xo. 5200 American Museum of Natural History, Cape San Lucas, March 

 23, 1911, 1 specimen, 5| inches in length. 



This species differs somewhat in measurements and notably in color 

 from the only other member of the genus, L. velifer Goode and Bean, from 

 the Gulf of Mexico. 



Myrichthys tigrinus Girard. 

 Pichilinque Bay, March 27, one specimen taken at the electric light lure. 



Bascanichthys peninsulse (Gilbert). 



Pichilinque Bay, March 27, a single specimen seven and a half inches 

 long. 



Bascanichthys bascanoides, sp. nov. 

 Fig. 4. 



Close to bascanium and scuticaris of the Atlantic, with pectorals small and trunk 

 elongate. 



Trunk subterete, depth 2.2 in length of head, breadth 2.5 in head; tail terete; 

 head and trunk about equal to tail; head contained 11 times in head and trunk. 

 Eve 2 in snout, which is 7 in head; lower jaw reaching to middle of snout, gape about 

 equal to snout. Teeth subequal, short, bluntish conical, slightly recurved, in a 

 single series in the lower jaw with a few extra ones near the symphysis; sides of 

 upper jaw with a single series, separated by a short interspace from two or three near 

 the tip; vomerine teeth in a triple series in front, then double, becoming single 

 toward the posterior, anterior teeth the larger. Gill openings vertical, equal to 

 snout, slightly greater than isthmus. Pectoral rudimentary, situated in upper part 

 of gill opening, slightly longer than eye. Dorsal commencing about midway between 

 gill opening and eye; both dorsal and ventral low. 



Color in spirits dark reddish brown, unmarked, darkest dorsally, fading out 

 ventrally to yellowish on belly. Vertical fins pale and a narrow pale vertebral streak 

 the full length of the dorsal. Snout and lower jaw dusky. 



Type Xo. 5201, American Museum of Natural History, collected off San Cristobal 

 Bay, March 15, 1911, total length 30 inches. A single specimen, recorded in Town- 

 send's notes as "taken from the stomach of a jew-fish" (Mycteroperca venadorum) . 



Quassiremus notochir (Gilbert). 

 Carmen I., April 3, one specimen. 



