1794 Build hi //, United States Natio7ial Museum. 



Sebaitodes rosaceun, Ayres, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., ii, 1862, 216, flg. C2; not Sehattes romceiis, 



GiRARn. 

 Sehasfosovms plnniger. Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, 147, San Francisco. 

 Scbastichtliys plnniger, Jordan &. Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 72. 

 Sebastodes innniyer, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, GG2, 1883; EiCxENMANN &. Eigenmann, 



Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1890, 16; Cramer, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., series 2, V, 1895, 595, pi. 59, 



fig. 7. 



2196. SEBASTODES MINIATFS (Jordan & Gilbert). 



(Kasciera; Rasher.) 



Head 2% ; depth 3 ; pectorals 31. D. XIII, 14 ; A. Ill, 7 ; scales 47. Body 

 oblong, the form much as in ScMsfodes pinnUicr; head moderate, somewhat 

 pointed; mouth rather large, the maxillary reaching past pupil, its length 

 2 in head; premaxillary on level of lower edge of pupil; lower jaw pro- 

 jecting somewhat beyond upper, with a moderate syuiphyseal knob; 

 middle of lower jaw elevated, fitting into an einargination of the upper. 

 Head more completely scaly than in related species, the scales rougher, 

 the scales on the preorbital and head generally being fully ctenoid; man- 

 dible scaled even to the symphyseal knob, its scales always roughly 

 ctenoid ; interopercle fully scaled ; most of the branchiostegals with series 

 of scales; maxillary, preorbital, and tip of snout fully scaled; preorbital 

 with a narrow neck; interorbital space very broad, with a slight depres- 

 sion on each side of a median ridge ; preopercular spines rather long and 

 sharp, the second the longest, the spines radiating. Gill rakers, as in 

 S. pimiUjcr, very long and slender, the longest about f diameter of the 

 eye. Dorsal lin low, rather deeply emarginate, about as in S.innnUjci; but 

 rather higher, the soft rays higher than the spines ; caudal fin slightly 

 emarginate; anal fin rather high, the second spine about as long as third 

 and stouter, little more than I the height of soft rays, about 3 in head ; 

 pectoral fin moderate, the tip reaching al)out to vent, the base rather nar- 

 row ; ventrals very long, usually reaching past Vfut, almost to the begin- 

 ning of the anal. Bones of skull thick; parietal ridges low but broad, 

 ending in spines; preocular, supraocular, postocular, and tympanic spines 

 present, sharp, broad at base, their ridges weak ; parietal bones widely sepa- 

 rated; interorbital space convex (nearly flat), broad, 3 in base of skull ; ven- 

 tral process of basispheuoid partly developed ; me.sethmoid processes well 

 developed, ccuupressed, not elevated ; base of skull (parasphenoid) strongly 

 curved. Color above, deep vermilion, mottled with flesh color on sides, 

 belly light red; back and sides everywhere with clusters of black dots, 

 so that the whole body has a dusky shade; top of head and back with 

 vaguely defined cross blotches made of dark points ; 3 obscure orange 

 stripes radiating from the eye ; maxillary with a red streak ; lips red, mot- 

 tled with blackish; under side of head light red, mottled with darker; 

 inside of mouth red; fins all bright vermilion; spinous dorsal spotted 

 with olive gray below, the membrane posteriorly edged with blackish; 

 soft dorsal spotted below with Idackish, a vertical dark-olive streak on 

 each membrane; other fins tipped with blackish, the membranes more or 

 less dotted; no black blotch on the spinous dorsal. Length 24 inches. 



