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head, much stronger than third, the two about equal in length; pec- 

 toral 3 : J in head, with very broad base, reaching beyond the tips of the 

 vcntrals, which reach nearly to the vent; lower pectoral rays thick- 

 ened; caudal truncate. Peritoneum pale. Head 2J; depth 2%. D. 

 XIII, 13; A. Ill, G. Lat. 1.45. L.13 inches. San Francisco to San 

 Diego, abundant in rather deep water. 



(Sebastichthys chrysomelas Jor & Gilb. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 455, 465.) 

 1O32. S. isebHJosaiS (Ayrcs) Jor. & Gilb. Garrupa. 



Ground color blue-black of varying shade, sometimes tinged with 

 yellowish anteriorly, everywhere finely and irregularly freckled and 

 spotted with yellow or white, the light color usually bright and 

 sharply denned; these spots smallest and most numerous on head; a 

 l>n>ad irregular yellow band, made of confluent blotches, from be- 

 1 \\ eeu the third and fourth dorsal spines, involving their membranes, 

 downward to the lateral line, thence backward to base of caudal; fins 

 all black, with light spots at base; under parts soiled yellow. Body 

 robust, the back elevated, the profile steep. Mouth rather large, the 

 jaws equal, the maxillary 2 in length of head, extending to beyond 

 pupil; jaws naked. Eye large. Cranial ridges high and thick, com- 

 paratively short; preocular, supraocular, tympanic, and occipital pres- 

 ent, the latter much higher than in chrysomelas, and bulging so that its 

 base is narrower than its upper part; interorbital space narrow; pre- 

 opercular spines short. Gill-rakers as in clirysomelas. Dorsal rather 

 high, considerably emarginate, the highest spines, 2 in head, higher 

 than the soft rays; caudal truncate; second anal spine 2J in head, 

 stouter and slightly longer than third, much lower than the soft rays; 

 pectorals short and broad, 3.V in length, reaching beyond lips of ven- 

 1 rals to vent. Scales rough, the accessory scales numerous. Peritoneum 

 pale. Head 3; depth L >: <. 1). XIII-13; A. Ill, 7; Lat. 1. 49. L. 12 

 inches. Pacific coast, from Vancouver's Island to Monterey, in rather 

 deep water; abundant. 



r.sv/.s/r.y/,/.x-r|-/H* Onl. I'm,-. Arail. Nat. Sci. I'liila. is:,.;. \.\(\, and in U. S. Pac. R. R. 

 Surv. l-'isli. ?'.i, not <>t' Siorcr: Schnxlt* iii-lnilnxiin Ayrcs, 1'i'oc. Cal. Ar.-ul. Sci. i, 5, 1804: 

 s.litixlirlilliiixfiiKi'iolHrix I.orkiiiglon. J'roc. I". S. Nai. M ', -J'.7 ) 



IO:i:$. S. SOITirrps .Ionian vV (lillirri. Tnr-Jlli. 



Dark olive, blackish above, yellowish below; sides with about 7 

 oblique black cross hands, wider than eye, usually sharply defined, but 

 sometimes faint, in the young; two black bands downward ami back- 

 ward from eye; lips, month, front and lower part of head strongly 

 washed with coppery red; bases of fins with small whitish spots; fins 



