Jordan and Evernmnn. — Fishes of North America. 1801 



dorsal fins coutainiug 7 or 8 scales. Color in spirits, light brownish above, 

 silvery on lower half of sides and below (tinged with red iu life) ; snout and 

 top of head dusky; sometimes a dusky streak from tip of snout to eye, a 

 second one crossing between preocular ridges, and a third, less often visible, 

 on occiput; a diamond-shaped brown blotch on nape and under front of 

 si)inous dorsal, extending downward nearly to lateral line ; a small blotch 

 under sixth and seventh dorsal spines; a very conspicuous saddle-shaped 

 brown cross bar under the eighth to eleventh spines; this is wider and 

 lighter next the back, becomes narrower and more intense just above the 

 lateral line, then widens into an intense vertically elliptical blotch on 

 middle of sides; a similar less intense bar under soft dorsal, and 1 on 

 caudal peduncle; the lighter portions of these bars showing darker spots 

 and mottlings ; those beneath the fins encroaching somewhat on their basal 

 portions; membranes of dorsal fins with ill-defined roundish spots of light 

 brown; caudal rays with a few elongate olive-brown spots, some of these 

 often forming a vertical series near base of fin ; membranes between the 

 rays largely olive-brown on basal f of fin ; a faint dark spot above middle 

 of base of pectoral; pectorals, ventrals, and anal white, unmarked; 

 mouth and gill cavity white; peritoneum brown. Length 7 inches. 

 Very closely related to S. saxicola, from which it difters conspicuously in 

 its smaller size, its sharjilj' defined cross bars, the smaller head, smaller 

 mouth, and smaller eye, and in the longer, more numerous gill rakers. 

 Coast of California; taken rather abundantly iu the Santa Barbara Chan- 

 nel, and at first confused with the young of S. saxicola. Specimens are 

 from Albatross Stations 2949 and 2959, in depths of 155 and 55 fathoms. 

 (Gilbert.) (semi, half; cinctus, banded.) 



Selastodes semicinctus, GUiBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1896, 449, pi. 53, flg. 1, Santa Barbara 

 Channel, Lat. 33° 57' N., Long. 119° 53' 30" W., in 155 fathoms. (Type, iNo. 47581. 

 Coll. Albatross.) 



2203. SEBASTODES DIPLOPROA (Gilbert). 



Head 2^ ; depth 2|. D. XIII, 12 or 13 ; A. Ill, 7 ; 35 pores in lateral line. 

 Maxillary reaching beyond middle of pvipil, 2f iu head; premaxillary 

 produced on each side of median line, forming 2 forwardly projecting 

 dentigerous lobes, in the deep emargiuation between which fits the tip of 

 mandible; symphyseal knob small. Eye large, 3 to 3^ in head. Preor- 

 bital narrow, | pupil, with 2 strong diverging spines; interorbital space 

 If in orbit; preopercular spines strong, the second usually the longest, 

 the third, fourth, and fifth directed downward and backward; opercular 

 spines longer than those on preopercle ; 2 small spines on shoulder. Gill 

 rakers long and very slender, the longest ^ orbit. Dorsal spines mod- 

 erate, longer than soft rays, the longest 2.} in head, the twelfth f its 

 height ; caudal emarginate ; second anal spine longer and stronger than 

 third, shorter than soft rays, 2| to 3 in head; ventrals barely reaching 

 vent, the pectorals slightly beyond, If in head, with broad base, the 

 lower rays not thickened. Scales large, minutely spinous and readily 

 deciduous, very small and cycloid on maxillary, mandible, and breast. 

 Fin membranes thick and scaled. Eones of skull thin, cranial ridges 

 3030 3G 



