670 roxTRir.rrmxs TO NORTH AMIMIIPAX ICHTHYOLOGY iv. 



lio. Cody robust, rather deep and compressed. Head long, acute in 

 profile. there being a nearly straight slope from a bony prominence in 

 front ol' the spinotis dorsal to the tip of the Io\ver jaw. Month rather 

 large. oblique, the lower jaw projecting; maxillary broad, extending to 

 opposite the middle of the eye; its length 2 in head; premaxillary on 

 level of lower border of eye; cranial ridges quite low, their spines 

 blunt ish and depressed; preocular, supraocular, tympanic, and occipital 

 ridges present; interorbital space flattish, narrow, not so broad as the 

 ye, not widened behind, with sparse, smooth scales; two long frontal 

 ridges extend the length of the interorbital space; these are covered 

 with bare skin; behind and between these are two shorter ridges cov- 

 ered by naked skin; occipital ridges long, curved, diverging behind; 

 mandible naked; maxillary with a few scales; snborbital stay very 

 prominent, its tip nearly reaching the preopercle; preopercular spines 

 very strong, the second longest; opercular spines long; preorbital 

 wide. Eye very large^ its diameter 3J in length of head. Gill-rakers 

 rather short, robust, much compressed, the longest about one-fourth the 

 length of the eye. Scales on head all small and thin, mostly cycloid; 

 scales of body smoother than usual; accessory scales very numerous. 

 Dorsal spines robust, rather high, the fifth not quite half the length of 

 tin- head: those behind rapidly shortened, the membrane joining the 

 thirteenth spine below its middle; soft rays about as high as spines; 

 caudal slightly einargiuate; anal low, its second spine 2i in head, much 

 longer and stronger than third, both robust; pectorals moderate, not 

 i.-aching vent, 3g in length; the base equal to diameter of eye; ven- 

 trals not reaching tips of pectorals. Peritoneum white. Head L'A; 

 di-ptli L'.\. D. XII1-11'; A. Ill, 7; Lat. 1. 55. L. 15 inches. Santa. 

 Harbara to ."Monterey, in deep water; rare. In life, the most brilliantly 

 colored large lish in our waters. 



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(i,i,i,nni(i. Sp<-i'ii-s with tli.' sralrs of UK xlrra t c si/r, Ilir cranial ridges strong and 

 niM-tl\ lii^li, lint no! sharp, tlir postoonlat Wanting) the ja\vs nr.-irly equal, 

 1lir IOV.IT nakrd ; tin- ^ill-r;'krrs slmrt ; tin- pert oia Is l.roail. wit h t liicki-nrd 



lower rays; anal III, :. to in, ?. (.sv//.xf/Y///////.v* (Jill.) 



lo-.<;. S, aiai-i4-iDlattis (Grd.) - 1 A .. 



Color blackish brown, much mottled with light brown; top of head 

 dark: a dark blotch on the upper angle of the opercle; entire body 

 Hushed with brownish red, this color nn.i noticeable on front of head; 



Cill, Pro.-. Ar:ul. Nai. Sci. I'hila. I-.-.', -JT-^: typo Sebaatcs nigrocinvtus Ayres: 

 (<5i . iir^nil'u-i'iit ; i^'V^, lish.) 



