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aud promineut; opercular spines long and sharj); snbopercular spine 
prominent; preopercnlar spines slender and sharp, the second longest; 
snborhital stay not reaching x>reopercle; preorbital narrow, with two 
spines. Eye exceedingly large, 3 in head, more than twice as wide as 
interorbital space. Month very large, oblique; maxillary very broad, 
reaching middln of eye, its length in head; premaxillaries on level 
of middle of pupil; tip of lower jaw flinch projecting, with a couspicn- 
ons, pointed symphyseal knob; mandible aud maxillary scaly; psendo- 
brauchiie very large; gill-rakers long, stiff and strong, about as in Sehas- 
fades piniiiger. Dorsal spines sharp, the longest about as long as eye; 
the fin deejily emarginate; soft rays not very high, higher than the 
spines ; caudal narrow, moderately forked ; anal spines moderate, gradu- 
ated; the second a little shorter than ej’e; pectoral rather long, reaching 
vent, its base narrow ; ventral reaching to vent. Scales small, irregu- 
lar, not strongly ctenoid. Peritoneum brownish. Head 3; depth 2i. 
D. XV-13; A. Ill, 7’; Lat. 1. 40 (tubes); scales about 85. Atlantic 
coasts of America and Xortheru Europe, south to Cape Cod. 
(Perea marina L. Syst. Nat. x, 1758, in part: Perea norivegica Milller, Zool. Dan. 46: 
Sebastes norwegicus Giiutlier, ii, 95.) 
SuRsp. viviparHS (Kroyer) Liitk. 
General color brownish red, somewhat mottled, with a blackish blotch 
on the opercle, and some other brownish spots on the bodjv Pectoral fins 
a little longer than in S. marinus; interocnlar space rather narrower. 
Head 3^; depth 34% D. XY-IT; A. Ill, 8. Arctic Seas, south to Cape 
Cod and the Baltic; smaller than the preceding and living near shore; 
thought to be a littoral variety. 
(Sebastes viri2)arHS Kroyer, Natnrbist. Tidsskr. i, 275, 1844-’45; Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. 
Sci. Phila. 1863, 333: Sebastes viviparus Giinther, ii, 96.) 
35§.— SEUASTOBES* Gill. 
Rocl'-Jisli; '‘‘■Boclc Cod.’’’’ 
(Sebastichthys, Sebastojjlus, Sebastomus and Sebastosomns Gill.) 
(Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila. 1861, 165: type Sebastes j^ciucispinis Ayres.) 
Body oblong or elongate, somewhat compressed; head large; month 
* A very doubtful species, which may he the young of Sebastes marinus, with an ab- 
normal number of spines, is accredited to our Atlantic coast, viz : 
(S’, f fasciatus ( Storer. ) 
“Body elongated, not convex in front of dorsal fin as in Sebastes norregiens; four 
distinct dark brown tijansverso bands upon the sides, the broadest at the posterior 
l)ortion of the body.” D. XIII-14 ; A. Ill, 7. Provincetown, Mass. (Storer.) 
(Sebastes fasciatus Storer, Proc. Host. Soc. Nat. Hist, v, 31, 1854 : Sebastes ? fasciatus GiU, 
Proc. Aoad. Nat. Phila. 1863, 335.) 
