BY W. MACLEAY, F.L.S. 429 



Genus Sebastes, Cuv. & Val. 



Head and. body compressed, above scaly, to or beyond the 

 orbits, without groove on the occiput, generally with a few small 

 spines; praeoperculum armed; body covered with scales of 

 moderate or small size ; no skinny appendages. Fins not elongate ; 

 one dorsal, separated by a notch into a spinous and soft portion, 

 with twelve or thirteen spines ; anal fin with three. No pectoral 

 appendages. Villi form teeth in the jaws, on the vomer and 

 generally on the palatine bones. Seven branchiostegals. Air- 

 bladder mostly present ; pyloric appendages in moderate or 

 small number. 



In nearly all seas. 



282. Sebastes percoides, Eichards. 



Voy. Ereb. and Terr. Fishes, p. 23, pi. 15, f. 1-2.— Gunth. Cat. 

 Fishes II., p. 101. 



D. 11. 1/12. A. 3/5. L. lat. 60-65. 



The height of the body is three times and a-half in the total 

 length, the length of the head three and a-fifth. Interorbital 

 space concave, with two ridges, narrow, its width being one-ninth 

 of the length of the head. The snout is shorter than the diameter 

 of the eye, which is three times and one-third in the length of 

 the head. Vertex with prominent spines. Tongue free anteriorly, 

 the maxillary reaches behind the vertical from the centre of the 

 eye. The third and fourth dorsal spines are the longest, twice 

 and a-half in the length of the head and longer than the anal 

 spines. Eeddish, with five brown cross-bands ; pharynx black. 



Tasmania, Port Phillip, Port Jackson. 



283. Sebastes Allporti, Casteln. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, Victoria, Vol. I., p. 40. 

 Very much like S. percoides, and believed by Dr. Gunther to 

 be identical. Form more elongate, the height being four times 



