FISHES OF PUGET SOUND. • 795 



what behind ventrals, at a point midway between pre- 

 opercle and base of caudal, its last rays extending over 

 the anterior third or fourth of anal; adipose fin not evi- 

 dent, perhaps obliterated. Caudal apparently lunate, i|- 

 in head. Anal low, its base i^ in head. Ventrals 2]^ 

 in head, inserted midway between front of eye and base 

 of caudal. Pectorals inserted very low, narrow and 

 pointed, i| in head. 



Back brownish, the sides burnished silvery; silvery 

 area on cheeks Y-shaped, the Y placed obliquely. Fins 

 with some dark dots, these forming obscure bars across 

 caudal; dark specks on back of caudal peduncle, and 

 across base of caudal; some dark dots elsewhere on 

 body. 



Type two specimens, each 2^8 inches long, and in good 

 condition, numbered 3125 on the register of Leland Stan- 

 ford Jr. Museum. They were cast up in a storm and 

 thrown by the waves on the deck of a vessel coming in 

 from Australia. The exact locality in the open Pacific is 

 not known. The types were presented by the Young 

 Naturalists' Society to the Museum of Stanford Univer- 

 sity. 



The new genus Zalarges seems to belong to the Chau- 

 liodontidcE, near the Atlantic genus Yarrella Goode & 

 Bean. It maybe thus defined: Body subfusiform, mod- 

 erately compressed, probably covered in life with thin 

 caducous scales. Head subacute, the membrane bones 

 normal, thin; mouth large, with expanded maxillary and 

 mandibular bones ; lower jaw projecting. Teeth very 

 slender, unequal, uniseral, none on tongue or vomer; 

 no fangs. Eye large. Gill openings very wide; gill- 

 rakers long and slender; branchiostegals 8; no pseudo- 

 branchi^. Photophores conspicuous, in two rows on each 

 side of belly, the upper row ceasing at front of anal; some 



