106. SCORP.ENID.E SEBASTODES. 669 



1O21. . eloiigatus (Ayres) J. & G.Iteina. 



Color light red; sides above with irregular horizontal iu terra p ted 

 olive-green bands, which are more or less broken into blotches, two of 

 these bands below the lateral line, becoming confluent behind; a dis- 

 tinct pale band following the course of the lateral line; upper fins 

 blotched with olive, lower pale red; head olive and blotched above, 

 pale red below; chin black. Body more elongate than in any of the 

 other species (except paucispinis), compressed. Head long, rather 

 pointed. Mouth large; maxillary extending to posterior margin of pu- 

 pil, its length 2-| in head; premaxillary on level of lower margin of 

 orbit; lower jaw strongly projecting. Eye very large, longer than 

 snout, 3 in head; iiiterorbital space broad, concave, with low frontal 

 ridges. Cranial ridges low and long; preocular, supraocular, tympanic, 

 and occipital present; tympanic spines small; preopercular spines very 

 sharp, all pointed, directed backwards; opercular spines very long and 

 sharp. Gill-rakers long and strong, the longest about one-third the eye. 

 Scales large, not very rough; accessory scales numerous. Maxillary, 

 mandible, and preorbital scaly. Dorsal spines moderately high, rather 

 strong, the highest about equal to the soft rays, 2^ in head; the fin not 

 deeply emarginate. Caudal fin lunate; anal fin rather low; the second 

 spine half length of head, much longer than the third, higher than the 

 soft rays; pectorals moderately broad, long, reaching beyond the tips of 

 the short ventrals to vent. Peritoneum dusky. Head 23-; depth 3; 

 pectoral 3. D. XIII-13; A. Ill, G; Lat. 1. 58. L. 12 inches. About 

 Monterey and San Francisco; abundant in deep water. This species 

 bears considerable resemblance to S. proriger. 



(Sebastes clongatus Ayres, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. ii, 23, 1859, f. 9.) 



aaaaaa. Species with the scales of moderate size; the cranial ridges well developed ; 

 the post-ocular wanting; scales smoothish; those on the head mostly cycloid ; 

 lower jaw naked, its tip protruding ; peritoneum white; second anal spine 

 long. 



1O25. S. rulteriviiictus Jor. & Gilb. Spanish Flag. 



Very pale rose-red, almost white, with cross- bands of a deep, intense 

 crimson-red; these bauds broadest on the back; one of the bands runs 

 across the eye, snout, snborbital and maxillary, its boundaries indis- 

 tinct; the next across the nuchal region, front of dorsal and opercle; 

 the next across the middle of the spinous dorsal, including the ventrals 

 and the postrior half of pectorals; another across soft dorsal and anal; 

 another across base of caudal, the fin itself being deep rose color; the 

 other fins share the color of that part of the body against which they 



