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g. Pectorals broad reaching tips of ventrals, but not quite 

 to vent. Head 3; depth 3. D. XIII-15; A. Ill, 9; lat. 1. 

 about 60. Maxillary reaching nearly to posterior margin 

 of eye, 2 in head; lower jaw much projecting, with large 

 symphyseal knob. Scales medium. Anal spines low, 

 graduated, second as long as eye; olivaceous; caudal yel- 

 lowish or greenish. Peritoneum white. San Diego to 

 San Francisco, abundant. flavidus.* 



gg. Pectorals not reaching tips of ventrals, not nearly to 

 vent. Head 3; depth about 3|. D. XIII-15 or 16, A. 

 Ill, 9; lat. 1. 60 (pores). Elongate. Lower jaw project- 

 ing, entering profile. Eye 4^ in head, 1£ in interorbital 

 space. Scales large, those of head greatly reduced. Anal 

 spines slender, graduated. Gray of varying shades, 

 back darker; a series of large white blotches along sides 

 of back, much more marked in some than in others; fins 

 yellowish. Cortes Banks to San Francisco. 



serranoides. t 

 ff. A. Ill, 8; head 3; depth 2§. D. XIII-16; lat. 1. 53, trans- 

 verse rows of scales 60-70. Maxillary nearly reaching pos- 

 terior margin of orbit, a little less than two in head; lower 

 jaw projecting, its tip entering profile. Eye large. Scales 

 moderate, accessory scales numerous. Anal spines small, 

 graduated. Olive brown, dark above; upper part of sides 

 thickly marked with small slaty-black spots; caudal dark. 

 Peritoneum white. Monterey to Sitka, abundant north- 

 ward . me. Ian ops . i 

 ee. Peritoneum black, colors dusky, fins blackish, dorsal fin not 

 very deeply emarginate. 

 h. Head 3*; depth 3J. D. XIII-15; A. Ill, 8; lat. 1. 66. Max- 

 illary reaching posterior margin of pupil; lower jaw some- 

 what projecting, without prominent knob. Scales all 

 ctenoid. Second anal not longer than third. Preocular 

 ridges obsolete; frontal region not specially convex. Black- 

 ish green, sides rather pale. Peritoneum black. Coast of 

 Alaska. ciliatus.§ 



* Sebastodes flavidus Ayres, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 209, fig. 64, 1862. 

 \ Sebastodes serranoides Eigenmann & Eigenmann, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 

 36, 1890. 



t Sebastes melanops Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., viii, 135, 1854, 

 and U. S. Pac. B. B. Surv. Fish. 81. 



$ Epinephelus ciliatua TileBius, Mem. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb., iv.,474, 1810. 



