Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 1885 



not very regular in size, arranged in about 67 series ; lower half of body 

 covered to within a short distance of anal with about 50 oblique plate- 

 like folds of skin ; the posterior edges of which are finely and sharply ser- 

 rate, the pores of lateral line situated in the upper end of these folds; 

 pectoral base, belly, and a narrow space along base of anal naked; fins, 

 with the exception of pectoral, which has a few rough scales on the rays, 

 naked. Dorsal spines slender, the first one inserted in advance of pectoral 

 base, directly over the upper end of gill opening, the fin somewhat rounded 

 in outline, the spines not varying greatly in length, with the exception of 

 2 or 3 on each side; soft dorsal a little lower than spinous, the rays sub- 

 equal, its base a little shorter than the base of first dorsal, and slightly 

 longer than the length of head ; ventral fins long, inserted well backward, 

 the base nearly \ a head's length behind pectorals, their tips reaching 

 past front of anal fin, their length equal to the distance from snout to 

 edge of preopercle; the pubic bone very prominent; pectoral fins long and 

 curved upward, the middle rays the longest, reaching past tips of ven- 

 trals and front of anal to the space between dorsals, the ends of lower 

 rays free, the width of the fin at its base contained 3 times in length of 

 head; caudal rounded. Color in spirits, blackish, with traces of 4 or 5 

 darker cross bars on back; sides below lateral line mottled, faint dark 

 spots along lateral line, more conspicuous posteriorly; a dark bar \ as 

 wide as eye, running from eye downward across cheek to anterior end of 

 interopercle, bordered on each side by a light streak, a similarly bordered 

 bar running across top of head, slightly turning around posterior margin 

 of orbit, downward along margin of preopercle, and ending on posterior 

 end of interopercle; snout abruptly black, lips dark; fins all dark and 

 slightly mottled; tips of ventral, anal, and caudal rays a little lighter; 

 caudal and pectoral dark at base ; slips on top of head black ; belly very 

 finely dusted with minute dark points. Puget Sound, in 4 to 8 fathoms; 

 types, 3 specimens taken in channel rocks at Point Orchard, near Seattle, 

 the largest 4 inches in length. The life colors of this brilliant species 

 were not taken. There is in life much red on the lateral plates and else- 

 where on the body and fins, which disappears at once in alcohol, (^ddvij, 

 zone; 6^77, window, from the banded eye.) 



Jordania zonope, STARKS, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1895, 410, Point Orchard, Puget Sound 

 (Type, No. 3124, L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus. Coll. Maude Parker and Adam Hubbard) ; JOK- 

 DAN & STARKS, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1895, 802, pi. 79. 



704. PARICELINUS, Eigenmann & Eigenmann. 



Paricelinus, EIGENMANN & EIGENMANN, West American Scientist, Nov. 9, 1889, 131 

 (hopliticus) . 



Ventral I, 5. Spinous dorsal well developed; gills 3|, no slit behind the 

 last; vomer and palate with teeth. Gill membranes (probably) forming a 

 fold across the isthmus. Sides* covered with stiff, villiform prickles; a 

 series of large plates, each ending in a large recurved spine, along the 

 bases of the dorsals. Head well armed, the occiput, preopercle, suborbi- 

 tal stay, preorbital, and part of the supraorbital with spines; nasal spines 



