C'il CO\Ti:ir.rT!<>NS TO NOETB /LMEEICAJJ ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 



so that tin- \\hole body has a dusky shade: top of head and back wuh 

 vaguely defined cross-blotches made of dark points; three obscure 

 orange stripes radiating from the eye: maxillary with a red streak: lips 

 red, mottled with blackish; under side of head light red, mottled with 

 darker: inside of mouth red; (ins all bright vermillioii; spinous dorsal 

 spotted with olive-gray below, the membrane posteriorly edged with 

 blackish; soft dorsal spotted below with blackish, a vertical dark olive 

 streak on each membrane; other fins tipped with blackish, the mem- 

 branes more or less dotted; no black blotch on the spinons dorsal. Body 

 oblong, the form much as in 8. pinniycr. Head moderate, somewhat 

 pointed. .Mouth rather large, the maxillary reaching past pupil, its 

 length 2 in head; premaxillary on level of lower edge of pupil; lower 

 jaw projecting somewhat beyond upper, with a moderate sympliyseal 

 knob; middle of lower jaw elevated, fitting into an emargination of the 

 upper. Head more completely scaly than in related species, the scales 

 also rougher, the scales on the preorbital and head generally, being fully 

 ctenoid; mandible scaled even to the symphj'seal knob, its scales always 

 roughly ctenoid; interopercle fully scaled; most of the branchiostegals 

 with series of scales; maxillary, preorbital, and tip of snout fully 

 scaled; preorbital with a narrow neck; cranial ridges low and small: 

 prcocular, supraocnlar, postocular, tympanic, and occipital spines pres- 

 ent; interorbital space very broad, with a slight depression on each 

 side of a median ridge; preopercular spines rather long and sharp, the 

 second the longest, the spines radiating, dill-rakers, as in piiinii/cr, 

 very long and slender, the longest about V, the diameter of the e\ e. 

 Dorsal tin low, ratjier deeply emarginate, about as in />'. j>!inii</rt\ but 

 rather higher, the soft rays higher than the spines; caudal tin slightly 

 emarginate: anal tin rather high, the second spine about as long as 

 the third and stouter, little more than half the height of the soft ra\ s, 

 about ;; in head; pectoral fin moderate, the tip reaching about to the 

 vent, the base rather narrow: ventrals very long, usually reaching past 

 the vent, almost to the lie-inning of the anal. Head L' ,' : depth :5; pec 

 toials ;!A. Dorsal lavs XIII-I1; A. Ill, 7: Lat. 1. 47. L. I'O inclus. 

 San Francisco to San Diego: not rare. 



',,stirl, I!,;/* miiii'ittt* .Ionian \ Cilln-rt, I'n.c. I'. S. Nat. Mus. L880, 70.) 



muni. Sprrirs \vilh the si-airs iif liimlcratr BlZflJ th' 1 iTanial I'iil.HT^ Ili^li: Ivillpllllii 1 



:in<l ]Hixtiirul;ir spinrs linth prrsrnt ; lower j;i\\ littlr pniji-rtin^; anal rays 

 III. 7; M-ali's mi In-all ci.-niiiil; ^ill-raUi-i-.s >lmri ; si-conil anal spint- usually 



' Cill.) 



Gill, Pi-oc. U. S. Nat. MM-. l-i;i, 117: \ pi- >V l>,i*t< .s nmaceus Grd. 



