Jordan and Evermann, Fishes of North America. 1509 



dorsal. Coloration extremely variegated, olivaceous, with stripes of 

 orange between the rows of scales; about 13 dusky orange cross bars, 

 irregular in form; eyes reddish, surrounded by a sky-blue band; mem- 

 branes of opercles chiefly orange; opercle bluish, spotted with orange; 

 sides of head' with sky-blue spots ; lower jaw with orange and blue stripes ; 

 breast and belly with longitudinal stripes of bright orange, alternating 

 with steel blue ; abdominal furrow orange, edged with blue; pectoral with 

 an orange crescent at base bordered with light blue ; soft dorsal with a 

 black blotch near the front; caudal of a peculiar rich orange brown, with 

 cross bars formed of round grayish spots; anal chiefly orange tipped with 

 blue, and Avith a large blackish blotch; other fins orange brown, mottled. 

 Length 10 inches. Coast of California ; very common from Cape Mendocino 

 to San Diego; a beautiful fish, largely used for bait; very rare south of 

 Point Conception, common off San Francisco. (Named for its discoverer, 

 Mr. Thomas G. Gary, brother of Mrs. Agassiz.) 



Embiotocacaryi, AGASSIZ, Amer. Journ. Sci. Arts 1853, 389, and 1854, 36G, San Francisco. 

 Holconotus gibbonsii (GIBBONS MS., Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1854), GIBBONS, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 



IMiila. 1854, 12, San Francisco. 

 Hi!l>surii8 caryi, ALEXANDER AGASSI/, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., vm, 1861, 133; JORDAN & 



GILBERT, Synopsis, 593; EIGENMANN & ULREY, I.e., 384. 

 Ihtrema caryi, GUNTHER, Cat., iv, 247, 1862. 



612. DAMALICHTHYS, Girard. 



Damalichthys, GIRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1855,321 (vaccaargyrosomus). 



Body ovate, compressed, with long caudal peduncle; head rather large; 

 inouth moderate, the lower jaw included; lips full, the lower with a 

 frenuin; teeth very few, short, conical, bluntish, in 1 series; gill rakers 

 short and slender; lower pharyngeal very large, convex behind in out- 

 line, with the lateral horns very short and thick; anterior tooth-bear- 

 ing area on the plane of the bone; posterior area inclined backward, 

 forming a steep angle with the anterior part; teeth on anterior part low, 

 truncate, hexagonal, tessellated ; on posterior part ovate, flattened, imbri- 

 cated, and turned forward so that the posterior side forms the grinding 

 edge; posterior teeth of upper pharyngeals applied to anterior of the 

 lower pharyngeal; the posterior teeth above similar to the anterior below, 

 and vice versa; scales rather small; dorsal spines low, much shorter 

 than the soft rays; anal fin long, with small spines. Vertebra? 13 -f- 21. 

 Species of large size, plainly colored, externally resembling Ditrema and 

 Phanerodon, but singularly distinguished from all the other members of 

 the family by the peculiar pharyngeals. (dd}iaki$, calf; iifivc,, fish; in 

 allusion to its viviparity.) 



1896. DAMALICHTHYS ARGYROSOMUS (Girard). 

 (WHITE PERCH; PORGEE.) 



HeadSi; depth 2^. D.X,23; A. Ill, 29; scales 8-63-17. Form broadly 

 elliptical, the dorsal curve regular, similar to the ventral curve; caudal 

 peduncle rather slender; head rather large, not blunt; occipital region 



