828 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Mouth terminal, oblique, the jaws about equal; snout 

 very blunt; maxillary reaching slightly past the vertical 

 from front of eye ; teeth in narrow villiform bands ; teeth 

 on vomer (the specimen is so small, we cannot be sure 

 of the palatine teeth) ; eye large, set high in the head, 

 its diameter greater than the length of the snout; inter- 

 orbital wide and flat, the diameter contained i}i times in 

 the width; gill-opening oblique, about as wide as eye and 

 on a level with eye; disk % longer than broad, its length 

 about equal to distance from gill-opening to anterior edge 

 of eye. 



Skin thick; head and body nearly naked, a few spines 

 scattered over it; spinous dorsal with 3 or 4 small spines, 

 a minute simple spine in front of eye and 2 or 3 above 

 it; 4 multifid spines following the curve of back, under 

 spinous dorsal, and i under the front of second dorsal, 2 

 similar spines on each side of nape, just above opercles; 

 2 on edge of opercle and 3 on edge of preopercle ; an 

 irregular row of 6 running from above base of pectoral 

 to front of anal fin, and a couple of small ones behind 

 gill-opening; body otherwise naked. All the above spines, 

 with the exception of those noted as simple, are long sharp 

 spines in groups of from 3 to 6 with a common base, gen- 

 erally the length of each spine exceeds the length of the 

 base. No lateral line. 



Spinous dorsal reaching to the first ray of soft dorsal 

 when fin is depressed, higher than soft dorsal; anal and 

 soft dorsal similar; caudal small, truncate or slightly 

 rounded; pectorals very short, reaching to the posterior 

 edge of ventral disk. 



Color bright wine-red, slightly lighter below, without 

 markings, sides dusted over with very small dark points; 

 spinous dorsal dusky; other fins colorless. Colors dis- 

 appear in alcohol. 



