1911] Sfdrks Maim : Xcir FisJics from ('alifor)iia. 13 



is composed of 36 oblique series counting longitudinally. Scales 

 of posterior part of band growing smaller and irregularly 

 arranged ; the band connecting with its fellow of the opposite 

 side on caudal peduncle. Body below lateral line naked. 



Dorsal spines slender ; weak ; those from the 4th to the 7th 

 longest. Dorsals not connected ; first ray of soft dorsal over 

 twice the height of last spine; anterior rays about equal; pos- 

 terior growing only slightly shorter; the highest ray twice the 

 diameter of eye. Pectoral large ; contained 2y8 times in body ; 

 reaching to opposite base of 6th or 7th dorsal ray. Ventrals 

 reaching slightly past vent ; first ray of anal beneath 3rd dorsal 

 ray ; last ray beneath 14th dorsal ray ; anal rays nearly equal in 

 length throughout length of fin ; caudal broadly rounded behind. 



Color in alcohol light brown ; a dark blotch below the anterior 

 part of spinous dorsal ; a small blotch below posterior part ; three 

 blotches below soft dorsal ; and one on caudal peduncle. Sides 

 below lateral line with irregular dark blotches on anterior half 

 of body, and with smaller spots on posterior half. A black blotch 

 on front of spinous dorsal ; soft dorsal narrowly margined with 

 brown, and with some narrow dark oblique bars on its base; 

 membrane of anal uniformly brown ; the rays somewhat lighter ; 

 caudal with a longitudinal streak through its middle ; pectorals 

 brown with a darker blotch at base ; ventrals colorless. 



The type and only specimen of this species is a trifle over 

 three inches in length, and was taken at Cortez Banks in a trawl 

 at a depth of from 11 to 16 fathoms. , ; 



Rusulus, new genus 



Head naked and with numerous large pores and several small 

 cirri; no enlarged external plates along lateral line; anterior 

 pores of lateral line with cirri ; sides of body covered sparsely 

 with one, two, and three-pointed scales or spinules which extend 

 below lateral line above anal region ; teeth on jaws, vomer, and 

 palatines ; upper preopercular spine bifid ; lower spines but little 

 developed ; dorsals separate, or contiguous at extreme base only ; 

 gill membranes united, and free from isthmus; no slit behind 

 last gill arch ; ventrals with one spine and three rays. 



