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spot; fins light reddish; dorsal speokled at base with light and dark. 

 Body robfist, heavy forwards, tapering into a slender caudal peduncle. 

 Head rather pointed in profile. Mouth large, oblique, the lower jaw 

 slightly projecting beyond the? emarginated tip of the upper jaw; a 



small knob at the symphysis; maxillary very broad, extending be- 

 



yond pupil, its middle part with many small cales, its length 2 in 



bead; premaxillary in front just below the level of the eye; mandible 

 almost entirely covered with small rough scales; muzzle and precrbital 

 scaled to the tip of the snout; head densely covered with small scales. 

 Ciajiial ridges rather high and narrow; preocular, supraocular, post- 

 ocular, tympanic, and occipital present; interorbital area concave, 

 with 2 prominent ridges covered by scales; supraocular ridge rather 

 short; occipital ridge long, curved, ending in a sharp spine; preoperde 

 with its second spine long and sharp; preorbital wide, its edge lobed. 

 Fye large, 4 ia head. Gill-rakers short, clavate, the longest of them 

 about one-fifth the diameter of the eye. Scales strongly ctenoid, the 

 accessory scales largely developed. Dorsal spines rather strong and 

 low, the fourth more than one-third the length of the head; the fin 

 rather deeply emaiginate; soft dorsal rather low, about as high as the 

 second au.al spine, 2$ in head, robust, curved considerably longer than 

 the third or the soft rays; caudal slightly emarginate; pectorals rather 

 narrow, reaching beyond ventrals, about to vent, their length two- 

 thirds that of the head. Peritoneum white. Head 2i; depth L'A. 1). 

 XI 11-13; A. Ill, G; Lat. 1. 53. L. 15 inches. Coast of California, from 

 San Francisco southward, abundant in deep water; a brilliantly-colored 

 fish. 



(S<-l>tix!i<'liilnixcoHiitfllatuijJor. & Gilb. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas. 1880, 295.) 



I O'J I . S. rosaceiis ((Jnl.) J. & G.Cormir. 



Bright orange red, the young strongly tinged or mottled with golden 

 yellow; back with 4 pale spots, arranged precisely as in X. <-<ixt<'ll<t/ us, 

 rliotliH-liloi-ix, and <-lilt>n>xlirti<x ; these always very distinct, of a rose- 

 pink color, or sometimes a'most white; the darker border around them 

 is of a deep purple or blood color, never greenish; fins rosy, mottled 

 with orange; head with radiating stripes of orange and rosy: nape with 

 alternating bars of \ello\\ ish and deep red, the colors blending; no de- 

 cided green, and no snr M pink spots anywhere. Body oblong, little 

 elevate. 1. Head rather pointed. .Month moderate, the jaws about 







e(|iial, the lower \\ith a small knob; maxillary not reaching poslcrior 

 border of eye; its length 1* in head; premaxillaiies below the orbit. 



