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Gillrakers very short and slender. Breast covered with imbricated cycloid 

 scales. Villiform teeth on jaws and vomer, none on palatines. Dorsal thin 

 and moderately deeply notched; caudal rounded; third anal spine greater 

 than second; pectoral with upper rays branched; lower or simple rays 

 thickened and the upper of them longer than any of the branched rays. 



Color light-olive, irregularly banded and blotched with darker; flushed 

 with cherry-red; subopercle with large black blotch somewhat ocellated. 

 Head blotched with olive and paler. Jaws and throat largely orange. 

 Dorsal mottled with blood-red, orauge, and whitish. Pale-yellowish bar 

 across soft dorsal, then a blackish streak ; rest of fin white, tipped with 

 black; caudal largely bright-scarlet, black toward tip. Anal largely 

 scarlet, mottled with black; pectoral yellowish, barred with white and 

 black, lower part of fin washed with scarlet; ventral light yellow, with a 

 few black spots on posterior half, and scarlet spots on anterior portion. 

 The most definite marks are a dark bar from soft dorsal to base of anal, 

 everywhere washed with scarlet, and black spot on the subopercle. 



Three specimens collected at Socorro Island, 3^, 2±, and 2 inches, 

 respectively. 



Family COTTID-SJ. 



81. Clinocottus analis (Girard). Todos Santos and San Martin islands. 



Family GOBIID-ffl. 



82. Gobius soporator Cuvier & Valenciennes. Numerous specimens taksn in the 



tide pools at Socorro and Clarion islands. 



83. Gobius zebra Gilbert. Two specimens from Todos Santos and Clarion islands; 



larger one If inches. The colors in life — blue stripes on a crimson ground — 

 were very beautiful. 



Family GOBIESOCIDiE. 



84. Gobiesox adustus Jordan & Gilbert. Two specimens, each an inch long, in tide 



pools at Clarion Island. 



Family BLENNIIDiE. 



85. Heterostichus rostratus Girard. Interorbital i less than orbit. One specimen, 



7 inches long, from Guadalupe Island. 



86. Gibbonsia elegans (Cooper). One specimen from San Martin Island. 



87. Bntomacrodus chiostictus (Jordan & Gilbert). Specimens taken in tide pools 



at Clarion and Socorro islands. 



Family PLEURONECTIDiE. 



88. Platophrys leopardinus (Giinther). Three specimens taken at Clarion Island. 



Length of each about 3 inches. 



