Jordan aiid Evcrmann. — Fishes of North America. 1803 



44^ in base of skull, \ diameter of orbit, moderately concave; 2 broad 

 low ridges over the large mucous canals; mosetbmoid processes com- 

 pressed, thin, very little elevated; ventral process of basisphenoid rudi- 

 mentary, base of skull moderately curved. Gill rakers very large and 

 thick, comparatively few in number, 7 on vertical limb, and 14 or 15 

 movable ones and about 3 tubercles on horizontal limb of gill arch. The 

 coronal spines are an inconstant feature of this species, absent nearly as 

 often as present. In 1 specimen a slight prominence on 1 side indi- 

 cates its position. Uniform red, light below; a narrow black streak 

 along edge of spinous dorsal, the triangular incised portions of membrane 

 above it white; a similar mai'k between second and third anal spines; 

 fins otherwise unmarked; peritoneum black; mouth cavity white. 

 Length 12 inches. About the Santa Barbara Islands, in 233 and 267 

 fathoms. (Gilbert.) {aurora, dawn.) 



Sebastichthys aurora, Gu.bkrt, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1890, 80, Santa Barbara Islands, 

 Lat. 33° 55' 30" N., Long. iig°4i'3o" W^., in 266 fathoms. (Type, No. 48239. Coll. 

 Albatross.) 

 Sebastodes aurora, Cramek, Proc. Oal. Ac. Sci., series 2, v, 1895, 596, pi. 56, tij;. 15; Gil- 

 beet, Kept. U. S. Fish Comm. 1893 (1896), 467. 



2205. SEBASTODES MELAXOSTOMUS, Eigenmanu & Eigenmann. 



The original types of this species are thus described: Head 3^ in total 

 length; depth about 3. D. XIII, 13^^; A. Ill, 7^; lateral line 43. Body 

 short and deep ; head heavy ; mouth large, lower jaw projecting, maxillary 

 reaching to below posterior border of pupil; eye very large, orbit 1 in 

 snout, 33 in head ; interorbital space slightly depressed, 4| in head ; pre- 

 orbital narrow, 3 in orbit, with an anterior simple and a posterior many- 

 pointed spine. Cranial spines low but distinct, smooth, and covered with 

 skin to their tip; the 3 ocular, the tympanic and parietal spines present; 

 opercular and preopercular spines long, simple; maxillary, mandible, pre- 

 orbital, and snout scaly ; scales of opercle rather large ; scales of sides very 

 large, with but few accessory ones. Gill rakers slender, 3i in orbit. 

 Dorsal spines all very low, the third and fourth the highest, less than ait 

 orbital diameter, the soft rays 3 in head; anal spines graduated, the sec- 

 ond not much more than I length of soft rays. Body scarlet, shading into 

 madder brown or blackish red above lateral line; fins vermilion, the first 

 dorsal with its membranes nairowly black-edged ; all other fins more or 

 less black on posterior half, the caudal most so ; head A'ermilion, tinged 

 with black; inside of mouth and gill cavity almost wholly black; upper 

 posterior portion of gill membranes black ; a black bar above opercle ; 

 peritoneum black. Length about 22 inches. Point Loma, California. 

 (/<£'Aa?, black; dro/na, mouth.) 



Sebastodes melanostomus, Eigenmann & Eigenmann, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., series 2, in, 1890, 

 17, Point Loma, near San Diego, California. (Coll. C. H. Eigenmann.) 



2206. SEBASTODES INTROMGEB (Gilbert). 



Head 2+; depth 2^; eye 3i to 4 in head. D. XIII, 14; A. Ill, 7 or 8; P. 

 18; lateral line 36. Mouth large, the maxillary reaching to middle or 

 posterior third of eye, 2 in head, its greatest width i its greatest length. 



