Girard on Fishes of California. 543 



fin. The pectorals themselves are rather small, and directed 

 obliquely upwards and backwards. 



D 67 ; A 47 : C 4, i, 8. 7, i, 3 ; V 6 ; P 13. 



The scales are quite small, longer than deep, cycloid in 

 structure, with diverging grooves upon their anterior section 

 only. The lateral line is slightly arched above the pectorals, 

 thence nearly straight along the middle of the flanks to the 

 base of the caudal fin. A similar mucous line may be 

 traced from the upper rim of the upper eye, along the back, 

 giving off an anastomotic branch to the lateral line across 

 the occipital region, and losing itself in the dorsal fin, 

 beyond the middle of the length. 



The ground color is grayish or plumbeous, densely sprin- 

 kled all over with black dots and whitish spots ; the fins 

 being olivaceous, similarly dotted with black, but exhibit- 

 ing fewer white spots. 



Locality. Specimens were collected in Tom ales Bay. 



Plate XXV, fig. 1, represents the right side of this species, 

 size of life. Fig. 2, exhibits the left side of the same speci- 

 men. Fig. 3, a scale from the dorsal region. Fig. 4, a 

 scale from the abdominal region. 



15. PSETTICHTHYS SORDIDUS, Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 



VII. 1854, 142. 



Locality. Tomales Bay. 



IX. LOPHOBRANCHIL 



16. SYNGNATHUS CALIPORNIENSIS, Storer, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. 

 Hist. II. 1845, 73, and Synops. 1846, 273. Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Philad. VIII. 1856, 137. 



Locality. Tomales Bay. 



