Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 1899 



2280. ASTROLYTES NOTOSPILOTUS (Girard). 



Head 2f ; depth 4f; eye 4f in head. D. IX, 15; A. 11 or 12; scales about 

 44. Head short and broad, its vertex depressed; nuchal region with a 

 cross ridge, in front of which is a quadrate depression; 2 blunt tuber- 

 cles behind each eye, armed at tip with small spines; behind these 2 

 others without spines, on the occipital ridges; each of these spines with 

 a small cirrus; a small cirrus above posterior part of eye; a minute one 

 on the maxillary; iuterorbital space deeply concave, the supraocular 

 ridges elevated. Mouth moderate, broad, the maxillary extending to be- 

 yond the pupil, its length nearly .1 that of the head; suborbital stay 

 strong; preopercle with a strong process, bilid at tip, and with 1 or more 

 upward-directed spines; below this 3 blunt serrated processes or mul- 

 tified spines; vertex, temporal region, iuterorbital space, and opercles 

 covered with small, detached, stellate scales, strongly spinous at their 

 edges ; these smaller than the scales of the dorsal baud. Olivaceous, often 

 tinged with purplish, and much variegated; a black bar at occiput; 

 another from middle of spinous dorsal to the axil; 1 under front of second 

 dorsal extending obliquely forward; 1 under posterior part of second dor- 

 sal; 1 on caudal peduncle; bars and interspaces everywhere finely retic- 

 ulated and mottled ; lower parts dusky, with brassy tinge, often with dark 

 reticulations around whitish spots; branchiostegals blackish, with yellow 

 tinge; tins all variegated, the lower fins generally dusky ; a black spot 

 ocellated with orange between first and second dorsal spines, sometimes a 

 duller one between third and fourth; a large black spot between sixth 

 and eighth spines. Length 10 inches. Coast of California, from Cape 

 Mendocino southward ; abundant off Santa Barbara. Here described from 

 specimens from Santa Barbara. (vc&ro<;, back; 67tiA.G)r6$, spotted.) 



teralig, AYKES, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1855, 77 ; not of GIKARD. 

 Artedius notospilotits, GIRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1856. 134, Tomales Bay (Types, 



Nos. 329 and 367. Coll. E. Samuels and Dr. W. O. Ayres) ; GlRARD, U. S. Pac. R. R. 



Surv., x, Fishes, 71, 1858; GUNTHER, Cat,, n, 174, 1860. 

 Ici'lna notoftpilotux, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 690, 1883. 



2281. ASTUOIATKS FKXKSTIULIS (Jordan & Gilbert). 



Head 2;^; depth 4; eye 5 in head. D. IX, 17; A. 12; lateral line 36. 

 General form of Astrolijte* notospilotus. Body rather robust; head large 

 and broad; lower jaw included; maxillary extending to posterior part of 

 eye, 2 T V in head; eye rather large, about broader than the concave inter- 

 orbital space ; nasal spines strong, with a conspicuous cirrus behind them ; 

 top of head less depressed and less concave than in A. notospilotus, its 

 lateral ridges smooth and covered by skin, without spine-like projec- 

 tions ; no tubercular prominences behind eye ; preopercle ending in a short 

 process, which has usually 3 spines at its tip, the 2 uppermost hooked 

 upward; the 3 prominences below this spine small, entire, covered witb 

 smooth skin. (In A. iwtospilotus these projections are, much larger, and 

 more or less coarsely serrate.) A few small dermal Haps on top and sides 

 of head; head with small stellate, noiiimbricate scales, arranged much as 



