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row on its side; a few spines on the base of the pectoral 

 and anal rays. 



Dorsal spines very weak, fitting in a groove in the back; 

 soft dorsal higher than spinous, the tips of the rays reach- 

 ing the base of caudal fin; anal short, few rayed, reach- 

 ing slightly beyond soft dorsal; pectorals pointed, their 

 lower rays entirely free, reaching about to the base of the 

 third anal ray; ventrals reaching to ends of pectorals, 

 their origin behind the lower part of pectoral base a dis- 

 tance equal to the length of snout; caudal rounded be- 

 hind. 



Body creamy yellow, with conspicuous irregular dark 

 stripes, edged with black, running obliquely across the 

 body; similar stripes radiating from the eye in all direc- 

 tions, one to end of snout, a triangular one downwards, 

 one running backwards and downwards, to middle of 

 preopercle, then turning upwards and running nearly to 

 occipital spine, two or three short ones above; each of 

 these involving the membrane of eye; 2 or 3 black- bor- 

 dered dark spots on edge of opercle ; a light yellow streak 

 surrounded by black across caudal peduncle, behind which 

 all is bright cherry -red to the end of caudal fin; two 

 similar spots on base of pectoral; top of head crossed 

 with w^avy black -edged dark bars; tip of lower jaw 

 black; a line of black spots running along under parts of 

 mandible; fins all bright red, each ray of dorsal with a 

 sharp black spot at its base, a few spots on dorsal spines; 

 anal, pectorals, and ventrals, dark at base. 



One specimen, 3 inches in length, collected in a rock 

 pool, on Channel Rocks near Point Orchard, by Miss 

 Adella M. Parker of Seattle; a second specimen, pre- 

 sented by the Young Naturalists' Society. The skel- 

 eton of this specimen has been prepared. It shows the 

 following characters : 



