1780 Bulletin ^7, United States National Museum. 



lower than the spines. Caudal forked for ^ its length. Anal very small, 

 the spines short but strong, graduated, the second stronger and slightly 

 shorter than third, its length ^ orbit. Soft anal rays low, their height i 

 head; pectoral not reaching vent. If in head, projecting beyond tips of 

 ventrals. Scales rough-ctenoid, completely investing head and body, 

 including maxillaries, mandible, and outer branchiostegal rays. Gill 

 rakers 10 or 11 + 23 to 25. In 3 young specimens the occipital spines are 

 evident, the others concealed or not developed. The young show .5 dusky 

 bars downward from back, under front, middle, and end of spinous dorsal, 

 below soft dorsal, and on caudal peduncle. The head is contained 2f times 

 in the length ; the depth 3*. The second anal spine is as long as the third, 

 but does not reach its tip when fin is declined. Dusky olivaceous above, 

 silvery on sides and below, more or less flushed with red; spinous dorsal 

 somewhat dusky, vertical fins otherwise yellowish, without distinctive 

 markings; lining of month and gill cavity white; peritoneum white, with 

 small scattered black stellate spots, and more or less clouded with minute 

 specks. Bones of skull moderately thick ; cranial ridges (except parietals) 

 and spines obsolete, occasionally a minute tyjpanic or parietal spine pres- 

 ent; parietal ridges low but distinct, parietal bones widely separated, 

 interorbital space nearly flat (slightly convex), broad, very nearly 3 in 

 base* of skull; ventral process of basisphenoid rudimentary, raeseth- 

 moid processes weak, flat, depressed, base of skull (parasphenoid) mark- 

 edly curved. Length 18 inches. San Diego to San Francisco. Here 

 described from specimens from Albatross Station, 2949, off Santa Barljara 

 Islands, in 155 fathoms. The species is now taken in abundance about the 

 Coronados Islands, Santa Calalina, and the Cortez Banks. (Named for 

 Dr. George Brown Goode.) 



Sebastodes goodei, Eigenmann & Eigenmann, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1890, 12, San Diego. (Coll. 



C. H. Eigenmann.) 

 Sebastichthys goodei, Gilbeet, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1890, 75. 



2180. SEBASTODES PAUtlSPINIS (Ayres). 



(BOCACCIO; MeROU; JACK.) 



Head 2|; depth 3f ; eye 4 to 6 in head. D. XIII, 13; A. Ill, 9; P. 5. 

 Lateral line with 65 to 80 tubes, about 100 scales in longitudinal series. 

 Body elongate, compressed, profile straiglit from protruding tip of lower 

 jaw to front of dorsal. Head large, long, narrow, and pointed. Mouth 

 much larger than in any other species, ol)lique, the broad maxillary reach- 

 ing to beyond eye, its length If in head; lower jaw very strong, with a 

 projecting knob at tip, which protrudes farther than in any other species. 

 Premaxillary on level of lower edge of pupil. Interocular space broad, 

 with 2 low ridges; top of head scaled to tip of snout; maxillary and 

 preorbital scaly; preorbital with narrow neck and 3 small spines; subor- 

 bital stay moderate; preopercular spines sharp and diverging, third 

 largest, the lower often divided; opercular spines moderate. Gill rakers 



* Base of skull measured from tip of vomer to posterior end of basioccipital. 



