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upon two from off La Jolla. The northern known limit of the distribu- 

 tion of this species is now extended to Tomales Bay, from wliieh 

 locality Mr. N. B. Scofield has sent a specimen to Stanford University. 

 The eye of the adult is contained five times in the gape. 



Ophichthus zophochir Jordan and Gilbert 

 Two specimens of this eel, hitherto known from Panama to 

 Guaymas, Mexico, were caught with hook and line off the wharf at 

 Playa del Rey, Los Angeles County. Length 493 and 443 mm. The 

 teeth on the vomer and jaws of the smaller specimen are in two rather 

 irregular rows, while those of the larger specimen are in narrow 

 bands. The origin of the dorsal in this species is subject to some 

 variation, being over the middle or the tips of the pectoral rays. Head 

 3 in trunk; depth of body 2.5 and 3 in trunk (in larger and smaller 

 specimens, respectively) ; gape 3 and 2.7 in head; gill openings about 

 one-third wider than eye; eye 1.5 in snout; pectoral 2.4 and 2.6 in 

 head. 



Anchovia compressa (Girard) 

 This anchovy is abundant in the sloughs at Anaheim Landing. 

 Anal rays 39 to 35. There is a wide variation in form, the depth of 

 the body varying from 3.9 to 4.5. The most robust and the most 

 slender specimens are of very different appearance. 



Genus Lestidiops, new {Paralepididae) 

 Body elongate and compressed, entirely naked, excepting a series 

 of about 120 concealed scales along the lateral line, whidi rapidly 

 decrease in size posteriorly ; a single pore at the end of a long eui'ved 

 tube above and below each scale. Dorsal well behind middle of body, 

 entirely behind ventrals ; anal well before dorsal ; adipose dorsal 

 short, near caudal; anus midway between ventral and dorsal. Belly 

 with a fleshy keel. Head deep, compressed. Premaxillaries with a 

 pair of anterior canines, followed by a series of short retrorse teeth ; 

 mandibular teeth in two series, those of the outer series small, one 

 opposite each inner canine; palatine teeth similar to mandibular 

 teeth; no teeth on the vomer, nor on the broad, free tongue. Gill- 

 rakers short and spinous. 



Lestidiops is closely related to the genus Lestidium,^ differing in 

 the absence of teeth on the tongue ; in the much more attenuate body 

 posteriorly; and in the character of the lateral line. The pores are 



1 Gilbert, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. for 1903, part II, p. 60S, fig. 236. 



