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simple. Forty-five pores in the lateral line. Spinous dorsal low, with evenly rounded 

 contour, the fourth, fifth, and sixth spines equal, twice the twelfth, 1\ in head. Longest 

 soft ray of dorsal t\ in head. Second anal spine longer and much stronger than third, 2 

 in head. Caudal slightly emarginate. Pectorals reaching beyond vent, 3§ in length. 

 Ventrals slightly overlapping the vent, equaling distance from tip of snout to upper end 

 of preopercle. Scales strongly ctenoid, except on cheeks, breast, and fins. Top of head 

 scaled forward to nasal spines. Cheeks, opercles, and preorbitals wholly invested, except 

 the anterior extremity of the latter. Maxillary and mandible with partially embedded 

 cycloid scales. Branchiostegal rays naked, or partially invested. Scales on breast and 

 prepectoral area excessively small. Many small accessory scales on back and sides. 

 Basal ^ to I of vertical fins densely scaled Series of fine scales follow pectoral and ven- 

 tral rays nearly to their tips. 



Sebastes taczanoivskii, Steindachner, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 256, pi. 2, fig. 1 (dorsal 

 XIV, 13), 1880, Bays of the Gulf of Stuietok, Sea of Japan 



II. Species allied to Sebastodes rosaceus, from South America and the Cape Seas. 



i. SEBASTODES OCULATUS (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



(Cabrilla.) 



Body thickset, its depth 4 in total length. D. XIII, 14; A. Ill, 8; P. 18. Nasal, preocular, 

 supraocular, postocular, tympanic and parietal spines present, quite strong. Opercle, 

 suprascapular and scapula with smaller spines. Notchings of the preopercle distinct and 

 as strong as the spines. Dorsal spines slender, anal spines longer and stronger. Caudal 

 truncate. Color (m., Gray's figure) reddish brown on hack, silvery rose below ; 4 brilliant 

 rosy spots on the brown of back at base of dorsal, the first under fourth spine, second under 

 ninth spine, the third under origin, and the fourth under end of soft dorsal ; there is a 

 fifth spot on the side at the height of the shoulder and between the first 2 spots; fins 

 brown (more or less deep) and bordered with bright rose. Description based on an indi- 

 vidual 4^ inches, the figure on one 8 inches long. On rocky bottoms in deep water, Val- 

 paraiso, Coast of Chile. (Cuvier & Valenciennes.) 



Sebastes oculata, CuviER & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 466, 1833, Valparaiso; 

 GiJNTHER, Cat. rishes, 105, 1800 (in part). 



j. SEBASTODES DARWIXI (Cramer). 



Closely allied to Sebastodes rosaceus. Spines similar in number and position, but a trifle 

 higher; upper spines on preopercle longest. Gill rakers slender, x + 18, nearly as long as 

 pupil. Jaws subequal. Pectoral short, IJ in head, the lower rays thickened Second 

 anal spine long, curved. Anal III, 6. Compared with a specimen of S. rosaceus of the 

 same size, the snout is blunter in S. darwini, the cranial ridges are a shade higher; the 

 pectoral is shorter, reaching only to vent, while in S. rosaceus it reaches to second anal 

 spine; the second anal spine is much longer than third (subequal in S. rosaceus); the 

 dorsal spines are lower, 3 m head (2f in *'. rosaceus). Scales similar. Mexillones, Peru 

 Here described from the MS. notes of Dr. Jordan on the type in Mus. of Comp. Zool., 

 Cambridge, Mass. 



Jenyns described a specimen from Valparaiso as <S'. ocidatus of Cuvier & Valenciennes, 

 but pointed out distinctions between the two, which with later knowledge of related 

 species, prove beyond a doubt that it is distinct; it is probably identical with S. darwini 

 from Peru. He also mentioned the figure of another species from Valparaiso, very dis- 

 tinct from the others in having the spines of the head less developed. About 50 species 

 of the genus have been described from the north temperate waters of the Pacific coast of 

 America, and it is not improbable that the species of this genus will be found numerous 

 in the temperate waters of the South Americau coast. 

 ? Sebastes oculata, Jenyns, Voyage H. M. S. Beagle, Zool., Pish., No. ii, part 4, 37, 1840, 



Valparaiso. (Coll. Darwin.) 

 Sebastes darwini, Cramer, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1896, Mexillones, Peru. 



