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spots. Sebastichthys chrysomelas is mottled black and yellow. 

 Sebastichthys carnatus is flesh-color and green. Sebastichthys 

 rastrelliger is a small, blackish-green species looking like Sebas- 

 todes atrovitens, but with short gill-rakers. Sebastichthys hop- 

 kinsi and Sebastichthys gilberti are small species allied to it. 

 The treefish, Sebastichthys serriceps, has very high spines on the 

 head, and the olive body is crowned by broad black bands. 

 Still more striking is the black-banded rockfish, Sebastichthys 



FIG. 369. Sebastichthys serriceps Jordan & Gilbert. Monterey, Cal. 



nigrofasciatus, with very rough head and bright red body with 

 broad cross-bands of black. 



Of the Japanese species the commonest, Sebastodes inermis, 

 the Mebaru, much resembles Sebastodes flavidus. Sebastodes 

 fuscescens looks like Sebastodes melanops, as does also Sebastodes 

 taczanowskii. Sebastodes matsubarcz and S. flammeus and 5. 

 iracundus, bright-red off-shore species, run close to Sebastodes 

 aleutianus. Sebastichthys pachycephalus suggests Sebastichthys 

 chrysomelas. Sebastodes steindachneri and 5. itinus are brighter- 

 colored allies of Sebastodes ovalis and Sebastodes scythropus and 

 Sebastodes joyneri represent Sebastodes proriger. Sebastichthys 

 trivittatus, green, striped with bright golden, bears some resem- 

 blance to Sebastichthys maliger. Sebastichthys elegans, Sebastich- 

 thys oblongus, and Sebastichthys mitsukurii, dwarf species, pro- 

 fusely spotted, have no analogues among the American forms. 

 Sebastodes glaucus of the Kurile Islands has 14 dorsal spines 



