106. SCOEP^NID^: - SEBASTODES. 663 



above, the pale below; belly nearly white; top of head with cross- 

 blotches and marblings of orange, alternating with pale; sides of the 

 head flesh-colored, with three bright orange bauds radiating from the 

 eye; maxillary with orange touches; lips pale, tinged with blackish; 

 inside of mouth pale; dorsal fin with the membrane bright orange, a 

 large black blotch occupying the membranes between the seventh and 

 tenth dorsal spines; this spot is usually distinct, but in old examples 

 it is sometimes obsolete; pectorals light red, mottled with yellowish; 

 other fins all bright orange, without dusky tips, slightly mottled with 

 paler at base; lateral line running in a distinct continuous light-gray 

 streak, which is not crossed by the red markings; old specimens some 

 times with large inky blotches on different parts of the body. Body 

 rather robust, elevated, and compressed. Mouth large, oblique, the 

 maxillary reaching to below the posterior margin of the large eye, its 

 length half the head; mandible somewhat projecting, with a knob at 

 the tip; the middle teeth on a raised base which fits into the emar- 

 gination of the upper jaw; interorbital space very broad, concave on 

 either side of the convex center, as wide as the eye, which is 4 in head; 

 cranial ridges low, but stronger than in preceding species; preocular, 

 isupraocular, postocular, tympanic, and occipital present; the space be- 

 tween the two occipitals concave; the ridges small but sharp; both 

 jaws, preorbital, maxillary, mandible, and snout scaly, the scales on 

 the lower jaw smooth; preorbital rather narrow, with two spines; pre- 

 opercular spines long and sharp. Dorsal fin deeply emarginate, the 

 spines rather high, nearly as high as the soft rays, the longest 2 in 

 head; caudal fin lunate; pectoral fin long, reaching to the tips of the 

 long ventrals, past the vent; base of pectoral narrow, about as broad 

 as eye; second anal spine strong, nearly as long as third, 3 in head. 

 Gill-rakers very long and slender, nearly f diameter- of eye; accessory 

 scales numerous, especially on head. Peritoneum pale. Head 2; 

 depth 2f; pectoral 3. D. XIII-14; A. Ill, 7; Lat. 1. 48. L. 25 inches. 

 Pacific coast, from Monterey northward; one of the most important 

 species. 



(Sclasiodes rosaceus Ayres, Proc. Cal. Ac;id. Sci. ii, 216, 1862, f. 62; not Sebastes 

 roscicctis Grd. : Scbastosomus pinniger Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, 147: iSebas- 

 Jor. & Gilb. Proc. U. S. Nut. Mus. 1880, 72.) 



1OB. S. zniniatllS Jor. & Gilb. Easciera; liaslicr. 



Color above deep vermilliou, mottled with flesh-color on the sides, the 

 belly light red; back and sides everywhere with clusters of black dots, 



