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1O1O. S. iiaciamops (Grd.) Ayres. 



Oli've brown, dark above, the sides paler; upper part of sides thickly 

 marked with small slaty-black blotches; head blackish above; a dark 

 streak <ui maxillary and one from eye across cheeks; fins dusky, the 

 dorsal pal<-r at base, with many round dark olive-brown spots; a black 

 opercular spot; lower rays of pectorals often tinged with orange. Body 

 comparatively elongate, highest at shoulders. Head long, in form 

 intermediate between mystinus and flavidus ; snout rather sharp. Mouth 

 large, oblique, the maxillary not quite reaching posterior margin of 

 orbit; its length a little less than half head; lower jaw protruding, its 

 tip on a line with the descending profile; premaxillaries on the level of 

 the lower margin of pupil. Eye large. Cranial ridges almost obsolete, 

 all scaled over and without spines in the adult; preocular spines obso- 

 lete, the space forward of the eye not projecting; preopercutar spines 

 short, but sharp. Gill-rakers longer than in myxtiiius, very slender. 

 Dorsal rather low, deeply emarginate, the highest spines 2 in head, 

 a little lower than the soft rays; caudal slightly emarginate. Anal 

 spines small, the second shorter but stouter than third, longer than 

 eye; pectorals short and rather broad, not reaching as far as tips of 

 ventrals, which scarcely reach vent. Scales moderate; accessory scales 

 numerous; mandible, maxillary, preorbital, and snout closely scaled. 

 Peritoneum white. Head 3; depth 2. D. XIII-1G; A. Ill, 8; Lat. 1. 

 .'>">; scales 00-70; pectoral 4.^. L. 20 inches. Monterey to Sitka; most 

 abundant northward. At San Francisco much less common than *V. 



^'rlmxti'x nu'lanopn Girard, Proc. Acart. Nat. Sci. Phila. viii, 135, 1H">4, and in 1 T . S. 

 I'MC. K'. I,'. Snrv. Fish. .-1; Ayivs, Proc. Cal. Acacl. Sci. IHW, 'JU. f. (if,: </</* 

 iin-liiiiiijii (iiiniliiT, ii, l jj: Sebastosomua simulans (Jill, Proc. Acacl. Nat. Sci. Pbila. 1^(U, 

 1-17.) 



1011. S. c-Bliatus (Tili-s.) .1. &. G. 



Blaekisli green, the sides rather pale, much mixed with darker; dark 

 shades from eye backward; a black streak on maxillary; lins all dusky, 

 the upper tins somewhat mottled; adult said to have the body and fins 

 tinged with red. liody rather deep and compressed. Mouth smaller 

 than in i<!<tn<>i>s, the maxillary reaching to behuv posterior margin of 

 pupil; lower jaw somewhat projecting, but without prominent knob at 

 the symphysis; cranial ridges all obsolete, covered !>y scales; no pre- 

 ocular spine or any bulge of the skull in that region; preorbital narrow, 

 without spine; preoperctilar spines short and broad; opercular and sn- 

 prascapular spines small; lower jaw fully scaled, roughish. llead well 



