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the nth, the 12th about 1% in the 13th; the membrane 

 rather deeply incised anteriorly, and reaching about half 

 way up the 13th spine. Soft rays about equal to the 

 spines. Caudal fin slightly lunate, its length about 1% in 

 head. Second and third anal spines about equal in length,' 

 the former a little stronger, 1^ in the soft rays. Pecto- 

 rals reaching very nearly to vent, a little less than head, 

 3^ in body, their base nearly 3 in their length, the me- 

 dian rays longest. Ventrals not reaching vent, about 1% 

 in pectorals. Scales on body, opercles and interorbital 

 space strongly ctenoid; those on mandibles, maxillaries 

 and most of those on cheeks cycloid; preorbital and 

 snout with minute scales. Accessory scales few. Color, 

 in alcohol, dark reddish brown, mottled with lighter; top 

 of head nearly black, a dark stripe on edge of lower jaw, 

 another on maxillary; a dark brown band from preorbi- 

 tal downward and backward to posterior edge of pre- 

 opercle; a broader band from posterior rim of orbit 

 downward and backward across preopercle and opercle. 

 Fins all dusky, the dorsals somewhat mottled. Perito- 

 neum black. The following description of the color is 

 added from Jordan & Gilbert's Synopsis: "Blackish 

 green, sides rather pale, much mixed with darker; dark 

 shades from eye backward; a black streak on maxillary." 



Coast of Alaska, rare; not noticed south of Kodiak 

 when the specimens here described were taken. No 

 other specimens are known, except those of Pallas still 

 preserved in the museum at Berlin. 



The above description is taken from three specimens 

 5/4 to SH inches long, in the possession of the Alaska 

 Commercial Company, one of them since presented to 

 Leland Stanford Jr. University. The following is the 

 synonymy of the species: Efinephelus ciliatus Tilesius, 

 Mem. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb., iv, 474, 1810, Aleutian 



