1196 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



Southern California from Monterey to Magdalena Bay ; generally common 

 in shallow water; a food-fish of excellent quality. Length about 18 

 inches. Here described from San Diego specimens, (nebula, cloud; fero, 

 I bear.) 



Labrax nebuli/er, GIRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1854, 142, Monterey. 



Paralabrax nebulifer, GIRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1856, 132; GIRARD, U. S. Pac. R. R. 



Surv., 33, pi. xu, fig. 1, 1858; GUNTHER, Cat., i, 62, 1859; JORDAN & EIGENMANN, 7. c., 



388, 1890. 

 Serranus nebulifer, STEINDACHNER, Ichth. Beitrage, in, 1, 1875; JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. 



Nat. Mus., 1880, 456; BOULENGER, Cat., i, 280. 



1583. PARALABRAX MACULATOFASCIATUS (Steindachner). 

 (SPOTTED CABRILLA.) 



Head 2| to 3; depth 3. D. X, 13 or 14; A. Ill, 7; scales 17-92 to 

 120-35, pores 66 to 80; about 35 small scales from dorsal to occiput. 

 Body moderately elongate; lower jaw projecting, but less so than in P. 

 nebulifer ; eye small, 5 to 6 in head, shorter than snout ; interorbital gently 

 convex; maxillary narrow, its width about half eye; preorbital wide, 

 wider than eye. Top of head scaled on median line to front of pupil, 

 naked on sides. Scales quite rough ; scales on top of head extending forward 

 only to middle of eyes. Gill rakers f in orbit, 6 -f- 13, the longest 2 in eye. 

 Second dorsal spine short, not half the third, which is If in head, the fourth 

 scarcely shorter; second anal spine shorter than third; pectoral moderate, 

 H in head; ventrals If; caudal slightly concave. Color olive brown, 

 thickly covered everywhere above with dark hexagonal or roundish spots, 

 so close together as to leave the ground color appearing as reticulations 

 around them ; these spots are more or less confluent on the back, and are 

 most distinct, and tinged with orange on sides of head, on branchiostegals, 

 and on base of pectorals; about 7 dusky cross bars along the sides, in 

 which the spots are deeper in color and more confluent; a bluish stripe 

 from eye across cheeks; lower parts yellow; soft dorsal and caudal with 

 bronze spots. Length about 18 inches. Lower California!! fauna, San 

 Pedro to Mazatlan ; everywhere common in sandy bays ; a good food-fish. 

 Here described from specimens from San Diego, (maculatus, spotted; 

 fasciatus, banded.) 



Serranus maculatofasciatus, STEINDACHNER, Ichth. Notizen, vn, 5, 1868, Mazatlan; JORDAN & 

 GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1881, 46; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 536, 1883; EVERMANN 

 & JENKINS, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1891, 142; BOULENGER, Cat.,i, 281. 



Serranus acanthophorus, BOCOURT, Ann. Sci. Nat., x, 1870, 223, west coast of Mexico. (Coll. 

 Bocourt.) 



Paralabrax maculatofasciatus, JORDAN & EIGENMANN, I. c., 388, 1890. 



1584. PARALABRAX HUMERALIS (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



Head 2f to 3i in length ; depth 3 to 4. D. X, 14 ; A. Ill, 7; scales 13 

 to 18-85 to 100-32, pores 64 to 70 ; about 32 scales before dorsal. Body 

 robust; canines small; snout 3 in head; eye5|; least width of preor- 

 bital 6 in head; interorbital gently convex; the scales usually beginning 



