48 FOSSIL FISHES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 



oblique; the broad maxillary 2% in head; traces of small teeth in bones of 

 lower jaw ; bones of head not evidently serrate. Dorsal fin apparently with 

 eight "to ten short and slender spines, beginning not far behind head; 

 soft dorsal obliterated; pectoral inserted high, narrow, and long, about 

 as long as head, reaching apparently to front of anal, perhaps through 

 distortion; ventrals apparently I, 5, almost obliterated, inserted well 

 behind pectoral (a feature also perhaps due to distortion) ; anal fin 

 long, beginning well forward, with traces of one or two spines, and the 

 bases of ten to fifteen rays, the number not to be counted; caudal badly 

 broken, the hypural plate obscure, the posterior vertebrae smaller than 

 the anterior and with the neurals and haemals smaller. Traces of rather 

 small scales on sides of head and on front of body. 



We are unable to indicate the relationships of this fish. With a 

 general resemblance to ATHERINID^:, it has the relatively few strong 

 vertebrae of a percoid fish, but the long anal seems to separate it from 

 the living forms of APOGONID.E, to which it has most resemblances. 

 It has also traits in common with PARAPERCIS and others of the PTEROP- 

 SARID.E. Its narrow pectorals exclude it from the Gobies and Blennies. 

 The name is from exXiJtrji;, overlooked. 



Family LUTIANIOffi. 



41. Lutianus hagari Jordan and Gilbert, new species. 

 (Plate XIV, figs. 1, 4) 



Two little fishes, about two and a half inches long (No. XIX), from 

 El Modena, Hadley collection, have the external form and marks of 

 species of HJEMULIDJE or LUTIANID.E. 



Head about 2% in length; depth 3y 2 . Eye 4% in head; vertebras 

 strong, lO-f-12 or 14 = 24. Dorsal rays visible, VII . 6 , A. 

 Ill, 6, the spines very weak, the rays more or less obliterated so that 

 these numbers are tentative only. V. I, 5. Dorsal spines slender, higher 

 than the anal spines, which seem slender and graduated. Caudal well 

 preserved, strongly forked, its rays about sixteen, the middle rays half 

 length of the others. Ventrals apparently somewhat behind pectorals, 

 behind front of dorsal. 



Body elevated at the shoulders, tapering evenly backward; parts 

 of head obliterated. 



There can be no doubt of the relationship of this fish to the 

 H..EMULIDJE or to the LUTIANID^;. The slender dorsal and anal spines 

 differentiate it from most of the living genera of each family. The 

 apparent shortness of the soft dorsal and anal, with the seeming presence 

 of three spines in the anal fin, exclude this species from the 

 with which it has much in common. 



