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longest dorsal ray, 1.3; pectoral, 1.55; eye, 8.9 in head; snout, 4.75; 

 maxillary, 2.25 ; interorbital, 6.2 ; width of head, 2.2 



Maynea californica Gilbert' 

 Five specimen.s iu the Scripps Institution, from oft" La Jolla. 



Table of Measurements in Hundredths of Length to B.vse of Caudal 



Length, mm 69 112.5 11.5 12.S 131 



Length, head 15 14 14 14.5 14 



Length, eye 2.7 2.2 2. .3 2.3 2.2 



Length, snout 3.2 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.3 



Length, maxillary 5 4.3 4.5 5 4.3 



Depth, body 8.5 8.1 10 9 8.5 



Length, pectoral 7 6 7 6.2 6.7 



Snout to dorsal 18.5 19 18 18.9 



Snout to anal 35 36 36.5 37 



Otophidium taylori Girard 



Otophidium taylori Girard, Pac. R. R. Surv., X, Fishes, 1858, p. 138. 

 Chilara taylori Jordan and Evermann, Fishes of North and Middle 

 America, III, 1898, p. 2489. 



Professor J. 0. Snyder has called my attention to the fact that the 

 so-called foramen of the air-bladder, the absence of which has been 

 supposed to separate Chilara from Otophidium, is sometimes present 

 in this species, its form and size subject to great variation. The genus 

 Cliilara is apparently untenable. 



Two small unspotted specimens, in the Scripps Institution, were 

 collected off La Jolla, at a depth of 55 meters. Head 5.9 and 6 in length 

 without caudal; depth, 10 and 11.2; gill-rakers, x -|- 7 to 9. One large 

 spotted, and two small unspotted specimens, from Santa Catalina 

 Island, have 8 gill-rakers on the lower limb of the outer arch. 



Otophidium scrippsi, new species 



Plate 20 



Chilara taylori Starts and Mann, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool, Vol. 8, 1911, 

 p. 16 (based on type of 0. scrippsi) ; ? Snodgrass and Heller, Proc. 

 Wash. Acad. Sei., Vol. VI, 1905, p. 420 (not 0. taylori Girard). 



The type, deposited in the Scripps Institution, La Jolla, California, 

 is a specimen 168 mm. long without caudal. It was dredged on Sep- 

 tember 1, 1908, near Cerros Island, off the coast of Lower California : 

 lat. 28° 2' 1" N.; long. 115° 6' 0" E.; depth, 73 meters; bottom, green 



8 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 48, 1915, p. 362, pi. 19, fig. 17. 



