Jordan and Evcrmann. Fishes of North America. 1507 



1893. PHANERODON ATRIPES (Jordan & Gilbert). 



Head 3* ; depth 2. D. X, 23 ; A. Ill, 29 ;' lateral line 70. Body elongate, 

 tapering into a long and slender caudal peduncle. Snout rather project- 

 ing. Head small. Mouth small, the maxillary not extending to opposite 

 the eye. Teeth few and small. Eye as long as snout, 3| in head. Cheeks 

 with 3 rows of scales. Gill rakers longer than in related species, and 

 pliaryngeals stronger, with the teeth more nearly paved. Highest dorsal 

 spine shorter than the soft rays. Pectorals long, reaching tip of ventrals. 

 Caudal lobes eqttal. Light olivaceous above, pearly below ; scales above 

 the axis of body each with an orange spot at base, its outer margin tinged 

 with bine, these forming faint reddish streaks along the rows of scales; 

 anal with a dusky spot; ventrals broadly tipped with blackish; caudal 

 not dark-edged. Length 10 inches. Monterey Bay and banks oif San 

 Diego in deeper water than related species; not yet recorded from inter- 

 vening localities ; locally abundant off Monterey, (ater, black; pes, foot.) 



Ditrt'ma atripes, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 320, Monterey Bay ; 



JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 595. 

 Ditrema ortlionotus, EIGENMANN & EIGENMANN, West American Scientist, October, 1889, 



127, Cortes Banks, off San Diego. 

 Phanerodon atripes, EIGENMANN & ULREY, Z. c., 395. 



610. RHACOCHILUS, Agassiz. 



Rhacocliilus, AGASSIZ, Am. Journ. Sci. Arts, May, 1854, 367 (loxotes). 



Pachylabrus, GIBBONS, Proc. Gal. Ac. Sci., in Daily 3'lacer Times and Transcript, June 21, 

 1854 (variegatustoxotes). 



Body ovate, compressed, tapering abruptly into a long and robust caudal 

 peduncle; mouth comparatively large, the lower jaw included; lips 

 extremely thick, the lower without frenum, its posterior edge free, coarsely 

 lobed; teeth few, small, conical, in 1 series; gill rakers rather long; 

 pharyngeals normal ; scales small; dorsal spines low, posteriorly subequal, 

 much shorter than the soft rays; caudal deeply forked ; anal basis elon- 

 gate, the spines small. Vertebra 14+22. One species. Males with a 

 gland on some of the anterior rays ; the anal basis without angle ; none of 

 the rays modified to form a plate. (pa.Ko$, rag; #f2/lo, lip.) 



1894. RHACOCHILUS TOXOTES, Agassiz. 



(ALFIONE.) 



Head 3|; depth 2f. D. X, 23; A. Ill, 30; scales 11-76-20. Body ovate, 

 with elevated back and long, thick caudal peduncle; head deep, with 

 prominent snout; mouth wide, oblique, the lower jaw included; maxil- 

 lary reaching front of orbit, slipping under the preorbital ; lips extremely 

 large, with uneven surface, slashed behind and without frennm; teeth 

 strong, wide-set, those in mandible little developed ; eye large ; gill rakers 

 stout, about 20 below the arch ; about 6 series of scales on cheek, 8 on 

 opercle; soft dorsal considerably elevated, much higher than spinous por- 

 tion 5 pectorals and ventrals long; pectoral triangular in outline, about 



