Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America. 1827 



Sebastes fasciatus, Gieaed, Proc. Ac. Kat. .Sci. Phila. 1854, 146, and in U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv., 



X, Fishes, 79, 1858, San Francisco; not of Stoker. 

 Sebastes nebulosus, Ayres, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., i, 1854, 5, San Francisco. 

 Sebastichthys fasciolaris, Lockington, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns. 1880, 297, San Francisco. 

 Sebastodes nebulosus, Jordan &. Gilbert, Synopsis, 676, 1883 ; CRAMER,Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., 



series 2, V, 1895, 603, pi. 67, fig. 32. 



Subgenus SEBASTICHTHYS, Gill. 



2231. SEBASTODES SERRICEPS (Jordan & Gilbert). 



(Treefish.) 



Head 3; depth 2A; pectoral 3i; eye small, 5 in head. D. XIII, 13; A. 

 Ill, 5; scales 50. Body robust, compressed behind. Head compressed. 

 Mouth large, the maxillary reaching to opposite middle of eye, its length 

 2^ in head; jaws equal. Cranial ridges covered with lax, thick skin, 

 placed nearly in a right line on each side; interorbital space closely 

 scaled; preorbital rather broad; preopercular spines sharp; jaws naked; 

 membranes of spinous dorsal thick, covered with small scales. Gill 

 rakers short, stiff, and clavate. Dorsal spines strong, rather low, scarcely 

 exserted, lower than the .soft rays, the longest 2| in head; second anal 

 spines 2^ in head, stronger than third, scarcely longer; pectorals broad 

 and rounded, the lower rays thickened, the tips reaching vent ; ventrals 

 reaching beyond vent ; caudal rounded. Bones of skull moderately thick ; 

 preocular, postocular, tympanic, parietal, and nuchal spines present, short, 

 thick, rather blunt, the ridges very thick and high; nuchal spines some- 

 times coalescent with parietals; parietal bones meeting in a straight line; 

 interorbital space narrow, 6 in base of skull, concave; 2 strong ridges 

 over mucous canals; ventral process of basisphenoid well developed; 

 mesethmoid processes strong, compressed, slightly elevated, distal half 

 decurved ; base of skull straight. Dark olive, blackish above, yellowish 

 below; sides with about 7 oblique black cross bands, wider than eye, 

 usually sharply defined, but sometimes faint in the young; 2 black bands 

 downward and backward from eye; lips, mouth, frout and lower part of 

 head strongly washed with coppery red; bases of fins with small wliitish 

 spots; fins blackish olive; cranial ridges black; peritoneum pale. Length 

 12 inches. Coast of California, from Point Reyes to Cerros Island; very 

 abundant southward, about rocks near shore; one of the most singularly 

 marked of the rockfishes. {serra, saw; -ceps, head.) 

 Sebastichthys serriceps, Jordan & Gilbert, Proc.r. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 38, Santa Catalina 



Island; Santa Barbara. (Type, No. 26918. Coll. Jordan & Gilbert.) 

 Sebastodes serriceps, Jordan &. Gilbert, Synopsis, 676, 1883 ; Ceamer, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., 



series 2, v, 1895, 601, pi. 65, fig. 25. 



2232. SEBASTODES >'IGROCIX( TUS (Ayres). 



(Black-banded Rockfish.) 



Head 2i; depth 2f ; eye large, 4i in head. D. XIII, 15; A. Ill, 7; scales 

 50. Body short, deep, and compressed, deeper than iu any of the other 

 species ; back arched. Head large, compressed. Mouth very large ; max- 



