106. SCORP^ENID^: SEBASTODES. 67 1 



a brownish red streak along: middle of maxillary, and a second from the 

 preorbital downwards and backwards across the cheek ; another from 

 eye to lower part of. opercle; fins all marked with dark and light olive 

 and reddish, the latter hue especially on the ventrals and anal; base of 

 pectoral blackish; northern specimens are more blackish, and less uni- 

 form, in color; old specimens are often nearly uniform reddish brown; 

 the young sometimes with obscure dark bars, the caudal fin speckled. 

 Body oblong; rather deep. Mouth moderate, below axis of body, the 

 jaws nearly equal; maxillary reaching beyond eye, its length 2 in 

 head; preorbital broad; interorbital space concave on each side of a 

 broad median ridge; preocular, supraocular, tympanic, coronal, and 

 occipital spines present, the latter sometimes divided; preopercular 

 spines long, all directed backward, the second longest; opercular 

 spines weak; 3 suprascapular spines. Scales on body large, ctenoid; 

 accessory scales not very numerous; mandible naked. Spinous dorsal 

 high, the longest spine 2 in head, higher thaa the soft rays, which 

 are much elevated; second anal spine longer and stronger than third, 

 2 in head; soft part of anal high; pectorals rather short and broad, 

 the tips barely reaching the vent, their length 3J in body; ventrals 

 reaching to vent; caudal truncate. Head 3; depth 2J. D. XIII, 

 13; A. Ill, 7; Lat. 1. 45. L. 18 inches. Pacific coast, from Vancouver's 

 Island to Cerros Island, very abundant; the only species entering 

 the bays and caught with hook and line from the wharves. It may 

 be known at once by the coronal spines, which are developed on no 

 other American species of the genus. In some of our specimens from 

 the Gulf of Georgia these spines are obsolete on one or both sides. 



(Sebaxtes anriculatiis Grd. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1854, 131, 146, and U. S. Pac. 

 E. R. Snrv. Fish. 80: Sebaxtes anriculatiis Ayres, Proc. Cul. Acad. Sci. 1862, 215, f. 68: 

 tiebasfes ruber var. parrus Ayres, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. i, 7, 1854.) 



1O27. S. rastrcIBager Jor. & Gilb. Grass Eoclc-Jish. 



Blackish green, with paler mottlings, the sides spotted with darker; 

 belly pale greenish ; paired fins dark, often bordered with reddish ; other 

 fins chiefly olivaceous, spotted with darker; the brightness of the olive 

 and greenish shades is quite variable, but the species is always without 

 definite markings and without bright red. Body oblong, deepest at the 

 shoulders. Head short, blunt. Mouth moderate, little oblique, the max- 

 illary reaching to the posterior margin of the eye, its length 2-^ rn head; 

 the premaxilla'ry rather below the level of the eye; jaws equal, without 

 symphyseal knob. Eye small, anterior, 4 in head. Cranial ridges 



