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color. On the posterior half of the body the brown color is dnsky 

 bluish, irregularly spotted and mottled with lighter slaty bluish. 

 On the back are the beginnings of 6 or 7 faint cross bands. A 

 faint dusky shade downward from eye and another backward; 

 tip or lower jaw with a large, bright vermilion spot. Across 

 lower part of head, running down from a level with mouth, are 

 four light cross shades ; the two posterior ones sharply defined 

 and bright yellow margined with brown ; the anterior ones, white 

 and a little diffused. Anal blackish, very slightly mottled, the 

 tips of the rays white ; the swollen anterior spines flesh-colored. 

 Pectoral light, mottled with dusky green ; ventral dusky, the 

 outer ray white ; caudal yellow. Dorsals uniform, with or with- 

 out a scarcely conspicuous dusky blue spot in front of spinous 

 dorsal, or dorsals sometimes marked like body under them, though 

 the spots on spinous dorsal are smaller and more widely spaced 

 than those on body. 



Females have a very short, simple tentacle over eye, some- 

 times almost absent ; no small spots or reticulations on anterior 

 part of the body and head. The light bars on under part of head 

 are broader and blend softly with the dark interspaces. Front of 

 spinous dorsal with a very definite dark spot. 



A few males were found which much resemble females in 

 length of supraorbital tentacles, character of bars on under side 

 of head, and definite dark spot on front of anal. 



This species is found from Monterey (type locality) to Guay- 

 nias, Mexico (Evermann & Jenkins, 1891, p. 163). It is common 

 southward in shallow w^ater of the open bays. 



223. Ulvicola sanctae-rosae Gilbert and Starks. 

 (Jordan & Evermann, 1898, III, p. 2413.) 



Known only from a single specimen collected at Santa Rosa 

 Island. 



22-1. Xererpes fucorum (Jordan and Gilbert). 

 (Jordan & Evermann, 1898, III, p. 2413.) 



Dr. Gilbert (MS. notes) records this species from Santa Rosa 

 and San Clemente Islands. Not before recorded south of Monte- 

 I'ey (type locality). It is known northward to Puget Sound 



