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plum color to olive green ; sides mottled and spotted with darker ; a dark 

 spot, ocellated with yellow, generally present between first and second 

 dorsal spines; dorsal blackish toward ends of rays; pectorals and anal 

 white in female, slightly dusky in male; unexposed portion of lower lip 

 entirely white; a yellow spot on base of caudal rays below and above. 

 Coast of California, from Monterey to Santa Barbara; not rare; a remark- 

 able fish. Here described from specimens from 6 to 8 inches in length, from 

 Pacific Grove, California. We do not know what variation there may be 

 in maxillary and barbels in larger or smaller specimens. This species 

 differs from N. satiricua in having no second spot behind seventh spine of 

 dorsal ; in having that part of lower lip which is covered by the maxillary 

 entirely white; barbels in male much longer; maxillary shorter; head 

 slightly shorter ; and in having the pectorals and anal lighter. (Named 

 for its discoverer, Dr. S. B. Blanchard.) 



Neoclinus blanchardi, GIRAED, U. S. Pac. K. E. Surv., x, Fi8h., 114, 1858, San Diego (Type, 

 No. 691. Coll. Dr. S. B. Blanchard) ; GUNTHER, Cat., in, 259, 1861 ; JORDAN & GILBERT, 

 Synopsis, 761, 1883. 



Subgenus PTEROGNATHUS, Girard. 

 2692. NEOCLINUS SATIRICUS, Girard. 



Head 3 in body; depth 6. D. XVI, 17; A. 30; eye 5 in head; pectoral 

 2; caudal 2. Head bluntish, convex in profile; snout steep; jaws sub- 

 equal; unequal, small canines on jaws, vomer, and palatines; eye about 

 equal to length of snout, interorbital flattish, about eye in width; 3 or 

 4 small barbels above eye, seldom as long as eye, the anterior one some- 

 times absent on one or both sides; cirri not differentiated in the female; a 

 multifid flap on anterior nostril ; maxillary always reaching past edge of 

 preopercle (in examples 6 to 9 inches in length), just past in females, 

 longer than head in males. Head naked, scales on body small, partly 

 embedded; no scales on fins. Origin of dorsal directly behind occiput; no 

 notch between spinous and soft dorsals ; pectorals in the larger examples 

 reaching to vent; last rays of dorsal and anal reaching base of caudal fin; 

 anterior half of ventrals in front of base of pectorals. Color in spirits, 

 reddish brown or olive green, mottled and spotted with darker; a dark 

 spot ocellated with yellow between first and second dorsal spines, a simi- 

 lar one between seventh and ninth ; dorsal blackish, pectoral, anal and 

 ventrals varying from dusky to black, in no case light in our speci- 

 mens; a yellow spot sometimes present, below and above, on base of cau- 

 dal rays; the membrane connecting maxillary with lower jaw blackish, 

 broadly and abruptly edged with white (probably yellow in life). Coast 

 of California, from Monterey to Santa Barbara ; a rare and most interest- 

 ing species. Here described from specimens, 6 to 9 inches in length, from 

 Pacific Grove, California. Differing from N. llanchardi in length of maxil- 

 lary; slightly larger head; males without long cirri; a second spot on 

 dorsal; tins darker, and especially in having the membrane of lower lip 

 blackish, edged with white, (satiricus, satirical.) 

 Neoclinus satiricus, GIRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1859, 57, Monterey, California, in 



30 fathoms (Coll. A. S. Taylor); GUNTHER, Cat., in., 260, 1861; JORDAN & GILBERT, 



Synopsis, 761, 1883. 



