FISHES OF PUGET SOUND. 819 



pectoral rays; pectoral dusky. First dorsal with 3 rows 

 of spots across the rays, a very narrow brown border to 

 fin ; second dorsal with similar spots, not arranged in rows ; 

 anal light above, uniform brown below; ventrals white; 

 caudal fin dark at base with 3 or four dark spots towards 

 middle of fin. 



One specimen collected at Robin Island, by Capt. J. G. 

 Blair. It is 8 inches in length. 



Podothecus veternus Jordan & Starks, n. sp. Plate 

 Ixxxix. 



Head ^% in length; depth 7^; dorsal IX-8; anal 8; 

 pectoral 15; lateral plates 36; orbit 4I- in head; snout 

 2j; upper rays of pectoral ij4 ; highest dorsal spine 2^ ; 

 highest dorsal ray 2|; highest anal ray 2|; caudal 2)4- 



Body elongate, about as wide as deep anteriorly, much 

 wider than deep posteriorly; mouth inferior, the lower 

 jaw shutting far behind the upper; teeth on jaws, vomer, 

 and palatines obsolete; a few short barbels beneath snout 

 in front of mouth, and at angle of mouth; their length 

 about equal to pupil; bones of lower jaw extensively cav- 

 ernous. 



A pair of short blunt rostral spines pointing directly 

 forwards ; at their base and wider apart is a pair of sharp 

 spines curving outwards, backwards and upwards; at the 

 posterior end of the rather wide rostral groove are a pair 

 of small spines pointing upwards and backwards; from 

 their base a pair of diverging ridges run through the in- 

 terorbital to above posterior margin of orbit. No me- 

 dian or movable spine at tip of snout. A strong spine 

 over eye, and a longer one at occiput; a low sharp 

 ridge on side of head, running from ocular spine and end- 

 ing in a low spine at upper end of gill- opening; a very 

 low ridge on opercle not ending in a spine; preopercle 

 with a strong spine with a wide keel-like base ; a hooked 



