1820 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



fins chiefly olivaceous, spotted with darker; the brightness of the olive 

 and greenish shades is quite variable, but the s]>ecies is always without 

 definite markings and without bright red ; peritoneum brownish. Length 

 15 inches. Coast of California, from San Diego to San Francisco ; abundant 

 southward. A strongly marked species, known at once by its short gill 

 rakers. (rastreUum, diminutive of rastriim, a rake; yero, I bear; from the 

 small gill rakers.) 



SebasticUhys rastrelliger, Joruax & Gilbert, Troc. IJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 296. Monterey. 



(Type, No. 27033. Coll. Jordan & Gilbert.) 

 Sebastodes rastrelliger, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 671, 1883 ; Cramer, Troc. Cal. Ac. 



Set., series 2, v, 1895, 002, pis. 65 and 70, figs. 27 and 41. 



2224. SEBASTODES CAURIXUS (Richardson). 



Head 23 ; depth 2f ; eye and snout equal, 2 in maxillary, 4t in head. D. 

 XIII, 12 to 14; A. Ill, 6 or 7; P. 17 to 19; scales 41 to 44 (pores); trans- 

 verse rows of scales 42 to 47. Body stout, compressed, the back elevated. 

 Head strongly compressed ; the dorsal profile nearly straight; interorbital 

 space nearly flat between the moderately elevated supraocular ridges, 

 5-^ to 54 in head; nasal, preocular, postocular, tympanic, and parietal 

 spines present, sharp, the ridges moderate; maxillary 2^ in head, its broad 

 posterior end reaching about to posterior rim of orbit; lower jaw some- 

 what pi'ojecting with a symphyseal knob; fine scales on maxillary and 

 part of lower jaw. Preorbital broad, with usually 1 or 2 small, rather 

 blunt, spines; suborbital stay short; preopercular spines directed back- 

 ward, the 2 upper sharpest, the middle one flatter and larger but not 

 divided. Dorsal spines high, strong, the fourth longest, l?f in head; mem- 

 brane of spinous dorsal deeply incised, attached to the thirteenth spine 

 at about the middle of its height; the soft rays a little shorter than the 

 spines; second anal spine scarcely longer or stronger than the third, 2^ in 

 head, 1| in soft rays; first anal equal to eye and snont; caudal truncate ; 

 pectoral reaching to or beyond vent, 3^ to 3^ in length of body, its base 

 3 in its length ; accessory scales few. Dark brown, more or less washed 

 with coppery or yellowish, the dark shades being dark red, the pale 

 shades light brownish and better defined than in *S. rca;?7?am, but similarly 

 placed. In alcohol, body and head blackish above, with a very slight pink- 

 ish tint ; paler below ; fins all blackish ; pale shades whitish ; peritoneum 

 white. Puget Sound to Sitka; abundant northward; replacing ^S'. t'ex)7- 

 laris. This species is very close to Sehasfodcs rexilJaris in general char- 

 acter, but diifers from it in color. It has fewer accessory scales, a more 

 prominent, somewhat projecting, lower jaw with symphyseal knob, a 

 broader preorbital, less flattened cranial ridges, a longer second anal 

 spine, and lower dorsal spines. The body is apparently more compressed, 

 the pectoral a little longer, the posterior end of the maxillary a little 

 broader, with a slightly different outline. Here described from speci- 

 mens from Seattle, {caiirinus, northwestern, from caunts, northwest 

 wind.) 



