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and prominent; opercular spines long and sharp; subopercular spine 

 prominent; preopercular spines slender and sharp, the second longest; 

 suborbital stay not reaching preopercle; preorbital narrow, with two 

 spines. Kye exceedingly large, 3 in head, more than twice as wide as 

 interorbital space. Mouth very large, oblique; maxillary very broad, 

 reaching middle of eye, its leugth - ; \ iu head; preinaxillaries on level 

 of middle of pupil; tip of lower jaw much projecting, with a conspicu- 

 ous, pointed symphyseal knob; mandible and maxillary scaly; pseudo- 

 branchhe very large; gill-rakers long, stiff and strong, about as in Selas- 

 iodcs plnnigcr. Dorsal spines sharp, the longest about as long as eye; 

 the fin deeply emarginate; soft rays not very high, higher than the 

 spines; caudal narrow, moderately forked; anal spines moderate, gradu- 

 ated; the second a little shorter than eye; pectoral rather long, reaching 

 vent, its base narrow; ventral reaching to vent. Scales small, irregu- 

 lar, not strongly ctenoid. Peritoneum brownish. Head 3; depth l!! : . 

 D. XY-13; A. I IT, 7; Lat. 1. 40 (tubes); scales about 85. Atlantic 

 coasts of America and Northern Europe, south to Cape Cod. 



(I'erca marina L. Syst. Nat. x, 1758, in part: Perca norwegica Miiller, Zool. Dau. 4G: 

 Sebastes noncajiciix (iiinther, ii, 95.) 



Snlisp. vivipai'iis (Kroyer) Liitk. 



General color brownish red, somewhat mottled, with a blackish blotch 

 on the operclr, and some other brownish spots on the body. Pectoral iins 

 a little longer than in S. iiiriiius; interocular space rather narrower. 

 Head ;J| ; depth :;;. 1). XV-14; A. Ill, 8. Arctic Seas, south to Cape 

 Cod and the lialtic; smaller than the preceding and living nvar shore; 

 thought to be a littoral variety. 



(Sfliimlfx ririjiariiH Kn'iyiT, Xaturliist. Tidsskr. i, 275, 1844-'45; Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. 1'liila. i-i;:;, :;:',::: s,/,(ixtfx fii-ijmnix (iiiuihcr, ii, SH>. ) 



358. SEBASTODES* Gill. 



Cud" 



( >'. Jiiisli, 'lilhi/s. Scli(ixt<>i>lHH, Sdxixtiniiux and Sebastosomus Gill.) 

 (Gill, True. Ai-iul. Nat. Sci. I'liila. l-i'.l. 1 r,r, ; t \ ] Si li<ixt, -N /><iiirii>i>iix Ay res.) 



Body Oblong OF elongate, SOmewhal compressed; head large: month 



A \ri\ doiilitl'nl s|i-i-i-s, \\hii-li may l>r tin- \ i'"".^ "'' ^'l>antt-K inui-iniix, with au ab- 

 normal n mill ii T of s| lines, is accredit rd to our At lant ic coast, vi/. : 

 >. .' fdxrhiliiH (Ston-r. ) 



"Jiody elongated, not convex in front of dorsal (in as in Si-htixtcx tuirrrflicitx; four 

 distinct dark lirnwn lransver.se hands upon the sides, the liroadest at llie jxisteiicrr 

 portion of the body." 1 . \III-14: A. 111,7. I'n>\ incetown, Mass. (Slorer.) 



( .^liiixti-n/iixi-itilnx Storer. 1'ro.-. I'.osi. Sue. Nat. 1 list, v, :il , 1-54 : *lm*li* .' fastiatus Gill, 

 Proc. Aoad. -Nat. 1'hila. l.-OLJ, 335.) 



