Jordan and Ever 7na7in. — Fishes of North America. 1789 



■without dark spots on iius ; peritoneum black. Length 14 inches. Coast 

 of California, San Diego to San Francisco, rare; in rather deep water. 

 (ovalis, oval.) 

 Sebastodes ovalin, Atres, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1862, 209 to 212, fig. 65, San Francisco ; Jordan 



& Gilbert, Synopsis, 660, 1883; Cramer, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., series 2, v, 1895, 594, pi. 58, 



fig. 6. 

 Sebastichthys ovalit, Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 143 ; Eigensiann & 



EiGENMANN, West American Scientist 1889, 128. 



2191. SEBASTODES EIGENMAXM, Cramer. 



Head 2 i, ; depth 2^. D. VIII, 14 ; A.III, 8 ; P. 18|; pores in lateral line 41(+ 

 2 on base of caudal) ; transverse rows of scales 41. Body compressed, its 

 width (behmd opercles) about 2^ in its depth ; greatest width of head 2,| in 

 its length; profile steep; interorbital space tlat, 5'- in head; supraocular 

 and parietal ridges quite well developed, the former tlat, the latter diverg- 

 ing backward; preocular, supraocular, postocular, tympanic and parietal 

 spines present, not very large, but sharp ; a curved shallow groove at each 

 side of interorbital space inside of the supraocular ridges. Orbit large, 

 nearly circular, 3^ in head, its upper rim on a level with the profile. 

 Snout short, about equal to interorbital width ; preorbital moderate, with 

 2 small, shai'p spines directed downward and backward; maxillary 2f 

 in head, reaching a little beyond vertical from posterior edge of pupil; 

 mandible projecting somewhat, with a moderate symphyseal knob. The 

 uiipermost preopercular spine small, directed a little upward, the second 

 longest, horizontal, the fourth and fifth small, but evident; upper oper- 

 cular spine slender and sharp, the lower shorter. Gill rakers long and 

 slender, about 2^ in the orbit, 23 on horizontal limb of first arch. Scales 

 rough, ctenoid, those on opercles, cheeks, and interorbital space and snout 

 somewhat rough ; those on maxillary, mandible, and breast mostly cycloid ; 

 very few accessory scales. Spines of dorsal moderate, the fourth longest, 

 2i in head, the fifth, sixth, and seventh nearly equal, the twelfth 2^ in the 

 fourth, the membrane deeply incised ; longest dorsal ray about equal to 

 longest spine ; anal spines graduated, the second nearly as long as and but 

 little stronger than third, 2?- in head, 1^ in the soft rays; caudal truncate, 

 or a little rounded; base of pectorals 4 in head, the 9 lower rays simple, 

 the middle rays longest, reaching a little beyond vent, 3| in length of 

 body; ventrals reaching vent. Color in alcohol, reddish brown; pale 

 below; dorsal and pectorals dusky; membranes of spinous dorsal black- 

 edged, and tips of ventrals blackish; peritoneum white, with a few black 

 specks. This species is nearest to Sehastodes oralis, but the mouth is 

 larger and the color different. One specimen, 7 inches long, taken at 

 Monterey, California. (Named for Dr. Carl H. Eigenmann, of the Uni- 

 versity of Indiana, in recognition of his work on the genus Sciasiodcs.) 



Sebastodes eigenrnanni, Cramer, in Jordan, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1896, 239, pi. 42, Monterey 

 California. (Coll. Dr. W. W. Thoburn. Type, Ko. 4046, L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus.) 



2192. SEBASTODES HOPKIXSI, Cramer. 



Head 3; depth 3«. D. XIII, 14; A. Ill, 7. Transverse rows of scales 

 (halfway between lateral line and back) about 52; pores about 51. Body 

 compressed, not ver j- deep ; profile steep ; depth of caudal peduncle a little 



