FISHES OF PUGET SOUND. 82I 



Color in spirits, reddish -brown above, light below; 

 narrow, irregular, transverse dark streaks across back and 

 sides; a longitudinal dark bar along each side of base of 

 both dorsals; a dark streak forward from eye; margin of 

 spinous dorsal blackish; soft dorsal with a small spot be- 

 hind, a dark spot on pectoral rays near their base and 

 some dark bars behind it across rays ; anal and ventrals 

 colorless; caudal dusky. 



A single specimen collected by Capt. J. G. Blair at 

 Robin Island, about 8 inches in length. 



Related to P. acijyenserinus and P. gilberti. It differs 

 from the former in having fewer and shorter barbels, 

 teeth on jaws obsolete, keel and preopercle larger; dorsal 

 ridges without spines posteriorly, and the spines on the 

 preorbital ridge different in shape; from the latter in 

 having the body different in shape, not everywhere deeper 

 than wide, but the reverse posteriorly; anal much shorter 

 and lower; no teeth on jaws, and the spines on preorbital 

 ridge better developed and different in shape. 



Allied to Podotheciis is the genus Stelgis Cramer, of 

 ^\i\Q)iiPodothecusvulsus\^\h.^ type. It is distinguished 

 from Podothecus mainly by the comparative lack of bar- 

 bels and by details of armature. We present a figure of 

 the species drawn from the original type of Stelgis vulsus, 

 the only specimen yet known. (Plate xc.) 



88. Averruncus emmelane Jordan & Starks, n. gen. and 

 sp. Plate xci. 



Head from tips of rostral spines 4 in length of body; 

 depth 7^; dorsal VIII orIX-8; anal 11 ; pectoral 14; 

 lateral line 35; orbit 4 in head; snout to tips of rostral 

 spines 35^ ; maxillary 3^ ; interorbital 6% ; pectoral if; 

 second dorsal spine 2|; third dorsal ray 2^ ; longest anal 

 ray 2-|; caudal fin 2. 



Body elongate, subcylindrical, the caudal peduncle long 



