1816 BiiHctin ^7, United States National Museum. 



into blotches, 2 of these bands below lateral line, becoming confluent 

 behind; a distinct pale band following course of lateral line; upper fins 

 blotched with olive, lower pale red; head olive and blotched above, pale 

 red below; chin black; peritoneum dusky. Length 12 inches. Coast of 

 California, from San Diego to San Francisco ; not rare in rather deep water. 

 This species bears considerable resemblance to Sehastodcs prorifjcr. {cIo)i- 

 gatus, elongated.) 



Sebastes elonfjatvs, Ayres, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., n, 1859, 26, fig. n, San Francisco. (Coll. 



Dr. W. O. Ayres.) 

 Sebasfndes elonyatus, Jokdan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 669, 188B; Cramer, Proo. Cal. Ac. Sci., 



series 2, v, 1895, 600, pi. 64, fig. 22, and pi. 70, fig. 40. 



2220. SEB.4.ST0DES LEVIS (Eigenmann & Eigenmanu). 



Head 2J; depth 3; eye If in snout, 5^ in head, 1 in interorbital, which 

 is very slightly convex. D. XIII, 13^; A. Ill, 7^; lateral line 50. Head 

 very large, pointed, its upper and lower outlines equally inclined. Mouth 

 large, lower jaw projecting and entering profile; a well-developed sym- 

 physeal knob. Maxillary reaching to Indow posterior margin of pupil, 

 greatly dilated behind, its width about equal to diameter of eye. Sub- 

 orbital stay weak; opercular spines strong, pointed. Gill rakers all short, 

 about twice as high as wide. Scales of head all cycloid, each scale with 

 numerous small accessory scales. Mandible, maxillary, and tip of snout 

 naked; preorl)ital with scattered patches of scales; scales of body weakly 

 ctenoid. Highest dorsal spine little less than I length of head, the 

 meuil)ranes vei-y deeply incised, those of first 3 spines meeting the suc- 

 ceeding ones on their basal fifth, the incisions l)ecoming gradually shal- 

 lower liackward, the tenth membrane meeting the eleventh spine on its 

 upper third ; dorsal rays considerably lower than the highest spine ; cau- 

 dal emarginate; second anal spine greatly thickened, 4| in head; ventrals 

 about 2 in head ; pectorals 1| . Skull long, bones thick, spongy ; preocular, 

 postocular, tympanic, j)arietal, and souu^imes supraocular spines present, 

 the ridges moderately developed; parietal bones meeting; interorbital 

 space a little more than 4 in l)ase of skull, concave, and on each side within 

 the supraorbital ridges, higher in center, with a small median ridge and 

 2 others over mucous canals; ventral process of basisphenoid moderately 

 developed; mesethmoid processes compressed, their upper surfaces de- 

 pressed, base of skull straight. Pink, with 4 interrupted crossbars of 

 black, the first below origin of dorsal, second below sixth dorsal spine, 

 third below tenth spine, fourth below seventh dorsal ray ; l)ack sometimes 

 dusky; 1 specimen having a large l)lack Ijlotch on anterior part of tsoft 

 dorsal; peritoneum white. (Eigenmann & Eigenmann.) Length 2 to 3 

 feet; one of the largest specimens weighing 29 pounds. Coast of Cali- 

 fornia, from San Diego to Monterey; not rare in deep water; occasionally 

 seen in the markets of Los Angeles. {Icvis, capricious or fantastic, the 

 root meaning light.) 



i^ebastichthys levis, Eigenmann & Eigenmann, Notes from the San Diego Biol. Laboratory, 

 1,6,1889, San Diego (Type, No. 41904. Coll. Eigenmanu) ; Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 

 West Amorican Scientist 1889, 129. 



Sebastodcs levis, Cramer, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., series 2, v, 1895, 601, pi. 04. fig. 24. 



