1911] Starks Mann: New Fishes from CalifoDiia. 15 



Lateral line curving downward to tip of pectoral where it is 

 slightly angulated, and thence runs straight to caudal; the part 

 anterior to angle with cirri at each pore. Small scattered one, 

 two, and three-pointed scales on side of body, becoming more 

 numerous posteriorly and opposite soft dorsal extending below 

 the lateral line. 



Dorsal fins separate, or only in contact at extreme base. 

 Third and fourth dorsal spines the longest ; first dorsal ray 21/^ 

 times the length of the last dorsal spine ; pectoral reaching to 

 base of fifth dorsal ray; ventrals reaching a fourth of their length 

 past vent ; first ray of anal beneath third ray of dorsal. 



Color in alcohol brown, belly lighter; back, sides, and head 

 everywhere with small dark dots arranged in patches ; a narrow 

 band across occiput ; back with 5 interrupted bands, the last at 

 tip of last ray ; a row of irregular blotches below lateral line ; 

 dorsals, pectoral, and anal with dark, oblique, dusky bands ; ven- 

 trals without color. 



The type and only specimen of this species is 1 5/8 inches in 

 length and was taken in a dredge opposite Ballast Point, at the 

 mouth of San Diego Bay, in a depth of 10 fathoms. 



Icelinus quadriseriatus (Lockington) 

 i\Iany specimens w^ere taken near Cerros Island, Lower Cali- 

 fornia, in 40 fathoms of water. Some of them have the braneh- 

 iostegal membrane black, the ventrals dusky, and the anal very 

 dark, appearing black when the fin is closed. Others have these 

 parts entirely colorless. All gradations between these extremes 

 are represented. Specimens with the lower parts dark may have 

 the pectoral variously colored from very dark to almost entirely 

 colorless, but the pectoral is always light when the other parts 

 are. 



Tarandichthys cavifrons (Gilbert) 

 Several specimens of this species were taken at a depth of 

 from 46 to 50 fathoms about San Diego. 



Xeneretmus triacanthus (Gilbert) 

 Two specimens were taken in water from 50 to 100 fathoms 

 deep off La Jolla. It has not before been taken in southern 

 California. 



