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Sehastes norvegicus De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 60, pi. 4, fig. 11, 1842, off 

 New York in deep water; Storer, Hist. Fish. Mass. 38, pi. VII, fig. 1, 

 1867. 



Sehastes marinus Goode & Bean, Bull. Essex Inst. XI, 14, 1879; Joedax & 

 Gilbert, Bull. 16. U. S. Nat. Mus. 651, 1883; Goode & Bean, Oceanic 

 Ichth. 260, pi. LXIX, fig. 248. 1896; H. M. Smith, Bull. U. S. F. C. 



1897, 105, 1898; Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mns. 1700, 



1898, pi. CCLXVIII, fig. 653, 1900. 



The depth of the body is contained two and four fifths times 

 in the length of the body which is three times the length of the 

 head. Body ovate; back eleA^ated, the ventral outline straight- 

 ish; top of head evenly scaled; interorbital space with two low 

 ridges, between which it is concave; nasal spines present; 

 cranial ridges moderate, rather low and sharp; preocular, supra- 

 ocular, postocular, tympanic, and occipital ridges present, the 

 latter with tips abruptly divergent; suprascapular spines very 

 sharp and prominent; opercular spines long and sharp; sub- 

 opercular spine prominent; preopercular spines slender and 

 sharp, the second longest; suborbital stay not reaching pre- 

 opercle; preorbital narrow, with two spines. Eye exceedingly 

 large, three in head, more than twice as wide as interorbital 

 space. Mouth very large, oblique; maxillary very broad, reach- 

 ing middle of eye, its length two and one third in head; pre- 

 maxillarios on level of middle of pupil; tip of lower jaw much 

 jjrojecting, with a conspicuous, pointed symphyseal knob; mand- 

 ible and maxillary scaly; pseudobranchiae very large; gill rakers 

 long, stiff and strong. Dorsal spines sharp, the longest about as 

 long as eye; the fin deeply emarginate; soft rays not very high, 

 higher than the spines; caudal narrow, moderately forked; anal 

 spines moderate, graduated; the second a little shorter than eye; 

 pectoral rather long, reaching vent, its base narrow; ventral 

 reaching vent. Scales small, irregular, not strongly ctenoid. 

 Peritoneum brownish. 1). XV-13; A. Ill, 7; Lat. 1. 40 (tubes); 

 scales about 85. 



Orange-red, nearly uniform, sometimes a dusky opercular 

 blotch, and about five vague dusk^- bars on back. Peritoneum 

 brownish. 



The rosefish is abundant at the hundred fathoms line off the 

 south coast of New England, and has been found in depths of 



