Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 2255 



Color light olivaceous, the cheeks and sides with many dark points which 

 form mottlings; snout dark; a dark spot on upper part of opercle; top of 

 head black ; dorsals light, with 3 or 4 dark lines running across the rays ; 

 some dark spots on base of anal ; pectorals crossed with dark wavy lines ; 

 caudal with about 5 irregular cross bars. Puget Sound and neighboring 

 waters. Here described from 2 specimens, each 2 inches in length, dredged 

 off Port Orchard by Mr. Edwin C. Starks. The original description is 

 imperfect and partly incorrect, the single type, from the stomach of Hexa- 

 grammos asper, being in bad condition. (Vo, arrow.) 



Gobiosoma ios, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 437, Saanich Arm, Van- 

 couver Island (Coll. Jordan & Gilbert); JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 948, 1883; 

 JORDAN & EIGENMANN, I. c., 509. 



Clevelandia ios, JORDAN & STARKS, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1895, 839, pi. 100. 



2587. CLEVELANDIA BOSJE, Jordan & Evermann. 



Head 4 (4f in total); depth 6f (7). D. IV-16; A. 17; scales 70-18. 

 Body very much elongate, slender; head long and slender, depressed ante- 

 riorly much as in. Lucius; profile straight; eye moderate, slightly shorter 

 than snout, 4^ in length of head; interorbital area about as wide as pupil; 

 anteorbital area scarcely diameter of eye; mouth large, maxillary 

 extending much beyond orbit; lower jaw flat, slightly curved upward 

 anteriorly ; mouth very much as in Lucius ; teeth all small, in narrow bands 

 in each jaw; the outer ones of the upper jaw slightly larger than the 

 others. Scales minute, slightly enlarged posteriorly; the margins plain, 

 anterior part of the exposed area lengthwise striated; breast and ante- 

 dorsal area naked. Distance from snout to insertion of first dorsal spine 

 2| in body; the spines slender and short, 3 in head; interdorsal area 

 equals snout and eye; dorsal rays slightly longer than spines, the last ray 

 not extending halfway to caudal ; caudal pointed, scarcely shorter than 

 head; ventrals not reaching halfway to vent, If in head; pectoral 1 

 in head; vent slightly behind middle of body. Color light brownish; 

 numerous darker spots of aggregated points along nape and upper half of 

 body ; belly white ; head slightly darker than body ; posterior edge of oper- 

 cle white ; an oblique silvery bar on the lower half of opercle, and a light 

 blotch at the upper corner of opercle ; cheek with black points ; some 

 light areas below eye ; lower surface of head and posterior part of max- 

 illaries plain; 2 dark bars on spinous dorsal; second dorsal with 3 or 4 

 dark bars; a curved black bar at base of caudal; remainder of caudal 

 irregularly barred with dark ; other fins plain. Length 1$ inches. San 

 Diego Bay (Eigenmann & Eigenmann } ; at first incorrectly identified by 

 Mr. and Mrs. Eigenmann with Evermannia longipinne (Steindachner), a 

 species similar in habit but wholly scaleless. (Named for Mrs. Rosa Smith 

 Eigenmann.) 



Clevelandia longipinnis, EIGENMANN & EIGENMANN, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1888, 73 ; not Gobi- 



otoma longipinne, STEINDACHNER. 

 Clevelandia rosce, JORDAN & EVERMANN, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1896, 229, San Diego. (Coll. 



It. 3. Eigenmann.) 



