Jordan and Evcrmann . — Fishes of North America. 1815 



opercle; caudal uumarked or with an obscure dusky median blotch; 

 other fins unmarked; a faint dusky axillary blotch; sides marked with 

 some red in life ; roof of mouth posteriorly dusky, buccal and branchial 

 cavities otherwise white; peritoneum jet-l)lack. Coast of California. 

 Types, 3 specimens, 5A to 6^ inches long;, from the Santa Barbara Islands, in 

 145 and 150 fathoms. (Gilbert.) (Ca, an intensive particle, and Ksvrpov, 

 spine, stroug-spined.) 

 Dr. Gilbert observes : 



Several specimens were taken north of Point Reyes on the coast of California, at depths 

 of 75 and 51 fathoms (Albatross Stations, 3350 and 3351) . The second anal spine is always 

 very large, but fr6<]nently fails to reach tips of soft anal rays when depressed, thus differ- 

 ing from the typo specimens. The depth is also greater, 3 instead of 3^ in length. 



Hfbastichthys zacentrus, Gilbert, Proc. F. S. Nat. Mus. 1890, 77, Santa Barbara Islands, 

 at Albatross Stations, 2893 and 2996, in 145 and 150 fathoms. (Type, No. 48243. 

 Coll. Gilbert.) 



2219. SEBASTODES ELOXGATUS (Ayres). 



(Reina.) 



Head 2? ; depth 3^ ; pectoral 3i. D. XIII, 13 ; A. Ill, 6 ; scales 58. Body 

 more elongate than in any of the other species (exceijt iHuicispinis) , com- 

 pressed. Head long, rather pointed. Mouth large; maxillary extending 

 to posterior margin of puj^il, its length 21 in head; premaxillary on level 

 of lower margin of orlut ; lower Jaw strongly projecting. Eye very large, 

 longer than snout, 3^ in head ; interorbital space broad, concave, with low 

 frontal ridges. Preopercular spines very sharp, all pointed, directed back- 

 ward ; opercular spines very long and sharp. Gill rakers long and strong, 

 the longest about ^ the eye. Scales large, not very rough; accessory 

 scales numerous; maxillary, mandible, and preorbital scaly. Dorsal 

 spines moderately high, rather strong, the highest about equal to soft rays, 

 2f in head, the fm not deeply emarginate ; caudal tin lunate ; anal fin rather 

 low, second spine k length of head, much longer than third, higher than 

 soft rays; pectorals moderately broad, long, reaching beyond tips of short 

 ventrals to vent. Skull long, bones thin, preocular, postocular, tympanic, 

 and parietal spines present, slender, sharp, the ridges moderately devel- 

 oped ; sometimes su^jraocular spines present and distinct; parietal bones 

 widely separated; interorbital space long and narrow, 5^ in base of skull, 

 moderately concave ; ventral process of basisphenoid well developed, mes- 

 ethmoid processes compressed, slightly elevated; base of skull somewhat 

 curved. Gill rakers 9 or 10 -f 20 to 22, extending full length of arch. 

 In the young the lateral stripes are broken wp into smaller blotches, the 

 interruptions to the dorsal stripe leaving a series of saddle-Jike blotches 

 along the back, which correspond in position with those of (S'. sarkola. 

 Tliere is 1 under lirst dorsal spines, 1 under middle, and 1 under end of 

 spinous dorsal, 1 under soft dorsal, and 1 on back of caudal peduncle. 

 This correspondence is interesting in connection with similar color marks 

 discovered in the young of 8. diploproa and those known to occur in the 

 young of the romceus group. Color light red; sides above with irregular 

 horizontal interrupted olive-green bands, which are more or less broken 



