no. 2075. FISHES FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA— GILBERT. 



377 



2, rarely 3, gill-rakers above the angle of outer arch; 9 to 11, rarely 



12, below angle. 



List of stations. 



4305 

 4309 

 4310 

 4311 

 4322 

 4356 

 4359 

 4364 

 4365 

 4366 

 4410 

 4413 

 4447 

 4452 

 4455 

 4457 

 4460 

 4475 



Off San Diego 



Fathoms. 



67-116 



67-78 



71-75 



110-143 



110-199 



120-131 



98-220 



101-129 



130-158 



176-181 



178-195 



152-162 



52-42 



49-50 



62^-56 



46-40 



55-167 



142-58 



.do 



..do 



.do 



.do 



. .do 



..do 



..do 



...do 



do 



Off Catalina Island 



...do 



Monterey Bay 



.do 



.do 



..do 



...do 



...do 





PSETTICHTHYS MELANOSTICTUS Girard. 



List of stations. 



4459 



4477 



Monterey Bay. 

 do 



Fathoms. 

 13-15 

 11-19 



HIPPOGLOSSINA STOMATA Eigenmann and Eigenmann. 



Characterized by its large mouth, numerous gill-rakers, the large 

 size of the scales on head and sides of body, the light and dark mot- 

 tling of the vertical fins, and the sharply marked series of ocelli 

 near dorsal and anal contours. In size of scales and in coloration 

 this species agrees entirely with H. bollmanni Gilbert, from the coast 

 of Ecuador, but the latter differs conspicuously in the reduced size 

 and number of gill-rakers and in the shorter maxillary. H. macrops 

 Steindachner, is known only from Mazatlan, Mexico, and from a 

 single specimen collected by the late Admiral Beardslee, United 

 States Navy, at Valparaiso, Chile. The gill-rakers in H. macrops 

 are similar to those in H. stomata, but the maxillary is much shorter 

 and more slender, and the scales on head are reduced in size and 

 are crowded in much more numerous series than in H. stomata. The 

 number of pores in the course of the lateral line is not materially 

 increased in macrops, but the number of scales in a transverse series 

 is greater, there being 27 to 30 in an oblique series from a point on 

 lateral line just behind the arch upward and backward to base of 

 dorsal, while in stomata and bollmanni there are 19 to 21 scales in a 

 corresponding series. Steindachner's figure of H. macrops indicates 

 faintly marked series of paired spots, with entire absence of ocella- 

 tion, and uniformly dusky vertical fins. In the Valparaiso speci- 

 men, better marked ocelli are present, but the vertical fins are plain 

 dusky. There is no trace of the pair of blackish spots just in front 



