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several blunt protuberances behind ; nape much depressed, with the base 

 of the dorsal fin rising abruptly above it; mouth small; teeth on jaws, 

 vomer, and palatines ; preopercle with small, bluntish spines above ; gill 

 membranes broadly united to the isthmus; a slit behind fourth gill; bran- 

 chiostegal 6; iirst dorsal falcate, the spines very flexible, the anterior 

 much elevated, much longer than head, the posterior rapidly shortened; 

 second dorsal long and rather high; anal fin similar to second dorsal, but 

 shorter and lower; pectorals moderate; ventrals I, 3, well developed, 

 nearly as long as head. Pacific. Coast. Small fishes, of singular appear- 

 ance, (vaurrtf, sailor; IxQvS, fish; in allusion to the development of the 

 first dorsal fin.) 



2389. \AUTICHTHYS OCULOFASCIATUS (Girartl). 



Head 3^; depth 3|. D. IX, 28; A. 19; P. 14; V. I, 3; scales 44. Maxil- 

 lary reaching to opposite pupil; eye very large, longer than snout; nasal 

 spines conspicuous, curved; maxillary and edge of preopercle with minute 

 cirri; orbit with a branched cirrus, as long as pupil; the narrow inter- 

 orbital space deeply channeled ; supraocular ridge posteriorly with 3 blunt 

 tubercles; 2 compressed tubercles on each side of iirst dorsal; a deep pit 

 at nape, extending under origin of first dorsal; spinous dorsal smooth; 

 rays of soft dorsal and caudal roughened with prickles; dorsal spines 

 nearly twice length of head ; ventrals f length of head, a little shorter 

 than caudal; pectorals long, (irayish above; sides with dark marblings 

 and obscure dusky bands; a very conspicuous black band through eye and 

 across cheek; first dorsal blackish; other fins barred with light and dark; 

 ventrals plain. Length 6 inches. Pacific Coast, Kadiak to San Francisco, 

 chiefly northward ; not rare in Puget Sound; a most singular-looking fish. 

 (oculns, eye; faaciatua, banded.) 



Jilejisias oculofasciatus, GIKARD, Proc. Ac, Nat. Sci. Phila. 1857, 202, Fort Steilacoom, 

 Washington. (Coll. Dr. Geo. Suckley. Type, No. 512, U.S. Nat, M us.) 



.Vrt ittichtliu* oculofasciatus, GIRARD, TJ. S. Pac. K. E. Surv., x, Fish., 74, 1858 ; GUNTHER, Cat., 

 n, 157, I860; STEINDACHNER, Ichth. Beitr., v, 130, with plate; JORDAN <fc GILBERT, Syn- 

 opsis, 727, 1883 ; JORDAN <fc STARKS, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci, 1895, 810. 



752. ULCA, Jordan & Evermann. 

 Vlca, JORDAN & EVERMANN, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1896, 227 (m armor atus). 



The genus is close to Hemitriplerus, from which it differs in its shorter 

 first dorsal of about 14 spines, the first 4 of which are not differentiated, 

 the fin therefore not emarginate. Alaska. ( Ulke, the Danish-Norwegian 

 name for all Cottidce.) 



2390. ULCA MARMORA TA (Bean). 



Head2|; depth 3|. D. XIV, 12; A. 13; V. I, 3; lateral line (tubes) 44. 

 Eye about as long as snout and as long as head. Pectorals reaching to 

 the vertical through the anal origin; ventral scarcely longer than eye. 

 Gill membrane free from isthmus. Maxillary reaching beyond end of eye. 

 First dorsal base as long as head without snout, the first 4 spines less 



