1911] Starks Maini: Neu' Fislies from California. 17 



Maynea (M. patagonica Cunningham, from the Straits of Magel- 

 len) only in specific characters, and it is the only one of the 

 genus known from northern waters. Maynea differs from 

 Bothrocara in having the flesh firm, the skin thick, the head not 

 cavernous, the eyes small, and the body tapering to a blunt point 

 with the dorsal and ventral outlines of the body approaching 

 each other in convex curves. Bothrocara has the body loosely 

 organized and covered with thin, lax skin, the head soft and 

 cavernous, the eyes very large, and the body tapering to a fine 

 point Mnth the ventral and dorsal outlines approaching each 

 other in straight lines. 



Maynea californica resembles the picture of M. •patagonica 

 that was published by Dr. Gunther (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1881, 

 pi. II), but differs in having the front of the dorsal placed much 

 more posteriorly, and in the absence of cross bars in the young. 

 The largest of the specimens at hand is a little over five 

 inches in length, or nearly as large as the type ; the others are 

 considerably smaller. They differ from the type in having the 

 maxillary a little shorter, the interorbital space a little narrower, 

 though the width of the interorbital bone is similar, and in being 

 darker in color. 



The following description is of the largest specimen. The 

 smaller ones agree with it in all easential respects. 



Length of head 7^/4 in length of body to base of caudal; 

 depth 1214. Eye 6 in head ; maxillary 3i/^ ; snout 4. 



Snout blunt and rounded, very slightly overhanging mouth in 

 large specimen, even with mouth in small ones. Rather coarse 

 teeth in bands on jaws, vomer, and palatines. Anterior nostril 

 in a short tube extending forward a little beyond the snout ; pos- 

 terior nostril a large pore scarcely larger than various other 

 pores on head. A line of pores around lower and posterior part 

 of eye ; a line of four pores running straight back from eye and 

 connected with its fellow of the opposite side by a transverse 

 line of three pores at nape. The line from eye continued on side 

 of body by a few very fine pores which do not reach as far back 

 as the tip of the pectoral fin. A line of pOres present around edge 

 of preoperele and continued on mandible anteriorly to its point. 



