PHOLIDOPHORHXE GANOLYTES 7 



we have numerous fragments. These show two segments of the side 

 of the body with many detached scales. The type, No. LX, Stanford 

 University Collection (fig. 18). Another example, from Brown's Canon, 

 represents the broken side of the head of a large example with a few 

 of the scales behind the gill opening. These are considerably longer 

 than deep, obliquely placed and finely striate, as is also the enameled 

 surface of the opercle. The scales of the body are everywhere finely 

 striate and some of them ornamented with radiating lines and occasionally 

 the edge clearly serrated. The scales are not arranged in rigid oblique 

 cross-series, and the frequency with which they have become detached 

 would indicate that they are less firmly fixed than in ETRINGUS. The 

 vertebrae must have, numbered about thirty-five. They are hourglass- 

 shaped, deeper than long and well ossified. 



We here present drawings of well ornamented scales. For this 

 material I propose the name of GANOLYTES CAMEO, the genus GANOLYTES 

 being separated from ETRINGUS by the thick, sculptured scales, these 

 next the head but not the others, being much deeper than long. The type 

 of the species is the specimen represented in figure 18, page 123, in the 

 "Fishes of California," here reproduced as figure 4. The three principal 

 specimens (much reduced in figs. 18 and 19) must be fragments of a 

 fish between two and three feet long. The type of ETRINGUS SCINTILLANS 

 is about six inches in length. 



I have fragments of this species from Brown's Canon, Soledad Pass, 

 and Walnut. The body scales on the three "torsos" before me seem 

 relatively smooth while the detached scales are highly ornamented. This 

 apparent difference is due to the fact that on the specimens the inside 

 of the scales (nearly plain) is shown, or else the inside imprint. 



Cotypes of GANOLYTES CAMEO are LXI, LXII, LXIII, LXIV, LXX, 

 LXXI, LXXIII, LXIV, XCI, XCII, and XCIII from Brown's Canon, 

 LXII and LXXXIV from Soledad. We have also a specimen in dupli- 

 cate, LXVII, from near Walnut, Puente Valley, Sierra Santa Ynez. 

 This small specimen has neither scales nor fins, but small scales of 

 GANOLYTES lie about it in the rock. Specimens from Olinda identifiable 

 by the scales are numbered LXVIII and LXIX, but these may belong 



tO G. CLEPSYDRA. 



The name GANOLYTES is from ydvos, brightness, splendor, hence the 

 words ganoid and ganoine, used for enameled scales ; Krtr|g, one who 

 loosens or casts off. 



