1786 BnUctbi //, United States National flinseiim, 



Sehastichthys entomelas, Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 142, Monterey, 



California. (Type, No. 27044. Coll. Jordan & Gilbert.) 

 Sebastodes entomelas, Jortiah & Gilbert, Synopsis, 659, 1883; Cramer, Proc. Cal. Ac. 



Sci., series 2, V, 1895, 293, pi. 58, fig. 5. 



2187. SEBASTODES BUFUS, Eigenmann & Eifrenmann. 



Head 3; depth Si. D. XIII, 14+; A. Ill, 8i; 56 pores iu lateral line. 

 Body compressed, elongate; profile straight, less steep than in Sebastodcs 

 oralis, snout broader. Eye moderate, orbit slightly longer than snout, 3^ 

 to 4 in head. Maxillary reaching to middle or little beyond middle of eye; 

 mandible with a prominent symphyseal knob. Interorbital slightly con- 

 vex, as wide as orbit in smaller specimen, wider in the larger; picocnlar, 

 supraocular, postocular, tympanic, and parietal spines present; the pari- 

 etal ridges higher, narrower, more diverging and more conspicuous than 

 in S. oralis; preocular rs fully developed as in S. oralis; preorbital very 

 narrow, about 4 in orbit, with 2 small backward-directed spines; preoper- 

 cular spines long and slender, all of them longer and stronger than S. oralis, 

 the lower 2 very long, the second reaching beyond base of third, not nearly 

 reaching base of third in S. oralis. Head entirely covered with moderate- 

 sized scales, those of body larger. Outlines of spinous dorsal little arched, 

 highest spine slightly more than 3 in head, the highest ray about equal 

 to highest spine; caudal emarginate; anal spines graduated, second equal 

 to highest dorsal spine. Rufous, variously marked with brown; lateral 

 line rufous; upper angle of opercle, a line from eye downward and back- 

 ward to upper half of pectoral, another parallel to it from upper angle of 

 maxillary backward, and tips of jaws dark brown; these markings con- 

 spicuous; head otherwise rufous; axil black; margin of spinous dorsal 

 and greater part of membranes of soft dorsal black ; base of dorsal rufous, 

 spotted with darker; caudal dnsky; membranes of the remaining tins 

 chieflv black, the rays rufous; peritoneum jet-black. Length about 22 

 inches. San Diego; Cortez Banks; not seen by us. (Eigenmann & Eigen- 

 mann.) {nifiis, red.) 



Sebastodcs ru/us, Eigenmann &. Eigenmann, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1890, 13, Point Loma; 

 Cortez Banks. (Coll. C H. Eigenmann.) 



2188. SEBASTODES MACDONALDI (Eigenmann fcBeeson). 



Head 3 in total length; depth 3f. D. XIII, 13 J; A. Ill, 7^. Elongate; 

 head pointed; eye small, orbit 1§ in snout, 4f in head, 1^- in interorbital; 

 lower jaw projecting; maxillary reaching to below posterior margin of 

 eye, 2 in head. Interorbital slightly convex, without ridges; cranial ridges 

 low. obscure, all terminating in short spines; preocular, supraocular, 

 postocular, tympanic and parietal spines present; preorbital f diameter 

 of orbit, with 3 retrorse spines below, the posterior smallest; a retrorse 

 spine just below orbit; opercular spines simple and strong. Mandible, 

 maxillaries, suborbitals, and entire snout scaled; scales of head small, 

 ctenoid, those of body larger. Spinous dorsal regularly arched, fourth 

 and fifth spines highest, 3 in head, highest ray 3* iu head; anal spines 

 graduated, the second considerably stronger but shorter than third, the 



