i\l>'2 CONTRIBUTIONS To NOKTII AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 



in head: pectorals rather long and narrow, the- tips reaching beyond 

 the tips of the ventral* to the \vnt. Peritoneum black. Head :>; depth 

 ,'. D. XII l-l.!: A. Ill, 7; pectoral 3^ in length; Lat. 1. 75. L. 10 

 inches. Coast of California, in deep water; not rare. 



'i,iflichtli>i i>r,>ri : /< r .Ii.nlau & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. I.-NI), 3'27.) 



tt(i. Species with llu- seales moderate, the cranial ri.l.nes low. the skull thick, the 

 iut.Torliital spare broad ami convex, tin- lower ja\v scaly, its tip not strongly 

 projecting: gill-rakers slender; pectorals narrow; peritoneum white. 



IO16. S. atrovireiis .Tor. & Gilb. Garriqw. 



Olive green, marbled with darker; sometimes brownish; 'belly. pale 

 yellowish green; fins olivaceous, no red anywhere. Body oblong, not 

 tapering rapidly backward. Head moderate, rather pointed. Month 

 moderate, the lower jaw somewhat projecting, the maxillary extending 

 to beyond posterior border of the pupil; its length 2 in head; pre- 

 maxillary below pupil. Eye large, 3 in head Cranial ridges low, not 

 ending in prominent spines; the following pairs are present: preocular, 

 supraoenlar, and occipital, and sometimes a minute tympanic; nasal 

 spines prominent; preorbital very narrow, with two stout spines; pre- 

 operenlar spines short, rather sharp, the second longer and slenderer 

 than the others; opercnlar and snprascapnlar spines sharp; interor- 

 bital space broad and slightly convex, widened backward, a little de- 

 pressed on each side next the snpraocular spine, its width less than 

 that of the eye and more than the length of the occipital spine. Gill- 

 rakers slender, not very long, the longest the diaoieter of the eye. 

 Preorbital scaly; maxillary partly scaly; mandible with some smooth 

 - ales: scales large, regularly arranged. Dorsal (in rather deeply emar- 

 -inate. the spines moderate, the fifth half length of head and lower 

 than the soft rays; caudal truncate; anal tin short and high, its spines 

 ^lender, the second shorter than third, and not much stronger, about 

 J._l in head; longest soft, rays 1 A in head; pectorals long and narrow, 

 leaching p;:->t vent nearly to beginning of anal, their length sex-en- 

 eighths that of head, their base narrow. Ventrals long, reaching just 

 ,.ast the vent. Head :',; depth!'. 1 ,. D. XI 11-11: A. lll.d: Lat.l. f>L. 

 I,. !."> inches. Coa.xt of California; generally abundant, especially south- 

 ward. 



iSthnxlirlitliyx trr',r. //- .I..Mi;m A Cilliert. I'roc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 289.) 



1O17. S. lilllliH:'r ' ' ; iU ' ' A (. Fliiiinii: Orntiiji- li'.n-k-fi*h. 



(Ironnd color light olive gray, jirofnsely blotched with bright clear 

 orange red or with light orange \ ell. .w, the red shades predominating 



