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giuate; longest spine f length of head, scarcely higher than the soft 

 rays; caudal emarginate; anal low, its spines small, short, graduated, 

 the second shorter than eye; pectorals narrow, rather long, not nearly 

 reaching vent, the base f diameter of eye; ventrals shorter, not reach- 

 ing tips of pectorals. Peritoneum white. Head 2f; depth 35; pec- 

 torals 5. D. XIII-13; A. Ill, 9; Lat. 1. with 65-80 tubes; about 100 

 scales in a longitudinal series. L. 30 inches. Coast of California; 

 abundant in rather deep water. 



(Sebastes pancifipims Ayres, Proc. Cal. Acacl. Nat. Sci. i, 6, 1854: Sebastes paucispinia 

 Grd. U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv. Fish. 83; Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pkila. 1861, 165; Ayres, 

 Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1832, 215: Scbastts pancispinls Giinther, ii, 98.) 



aa. Species with scales small (lat. 1. 60 to 70); cranial ridges little developed; skull 

 thick ; lower jaw strongly projecting; anal rays III, 7 to III, 9; jaws scaly; 

 gill-rakers very long and slender. (Sebastosomtts* Gill.) 



1OO9. S. flavidais Ayres. Ydloic-tall Ilock-jish. 



Olive green, rather pale, plain or finely spotted with yellowish; fins 

 olive, caudal strongly tinged with yellow; young mottled. Body ob- 

 long, compressed, the back not much elevated. Head rather long, 

 pointed. Mouth large, oblique, the maxillary extending to nearly 

 opposite posterior margin of eye, 2 in head; premaxillaries in front on 

 the level of lower margin of pupil. Lower jaw strongly projecting, its 

 symphyseal knob very prominent, but less so than in S. pauci&pinis. 

 Preorbital narrow, without spines. Top of head evenly scaled, the 

 nasal spines only present and very small. Cranial ridges obsolete, 

 without spines; only the occipital ridges visible under the scales. In- 

 terorbital space evenly convex. Preopercular spines rather strong, all 

 of them directed strongly backwards; opercular spines moderate; su- 

 prascapular spines small, the upper obsolete. Scales medium; acces- 

 sory scales variable. Dorsal spines low, slender, the longest 3 in head ; 

 the soft rays rather high, the fin very deeply emarginate, the mem- 

 brane joining the thirteenth spine at about one-fourth its height; cau- 

 dal fin notched ; anal spines low, regularly graduated, the third spine 

 less than half the height of the soft rays, the second as long as eye; pec- 

 toral fins shortish, rather broad, reaching tip of ventrals, but not quite 

 to vent. Peritoneum white. Head 3; depth 3; pectoral 4. D. XIII- 

 15; A. Ill, 0; Lat. 1. about 60. L. 24 inches. Coast of California, 

 abundant; an important food-fish. 



(Ayres, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sci. 18(52, 209, f. 64.) 



* Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1884, 147 : type Si'bastes mclanop^ Grd. ( 

 Sebastes; 6&)ita, body.) 



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