106. SCORP^NID^ — SEBASTODES. 
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about f its lieigbt; second anal spine longer and stronger than tliird, 
almost as high as the soft rays, 2^- in head; pectorals long, reaching 
beyond tips of ventrals; caudal eiuarginate; maxillary and mandible 
scaly. Peritoneum black. Head 3; depth 2a. D. X 111-14; A. Ill, S; 
pectoral 3^; height of dorsal 8; Lat. 1. about 70. L. 14 inches. Coast 
of California, in deep water; rare. 
(Ayres, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 1862, 212, f. 65: Sehastichihys avails Jordan & Gilbert, 
Proc. U. S. Nat, Mus. 1880, 143.) 
1015. S. proriger Jor. & Gilb. 
Bright light red, mottled above with dusky olive-green, the ground 
color forming distinct blotches under the third dorsal spine and under 
the first and last rays of the soft dorsal; lateral line running in the 
middle of a very distinct continuous red strijie, precisely as in S. elon- 
gatus] head above with purplish cross-shades; opercle with a dusky 
blotch; two olive shades radiating from the eye; lips and tip of lower 
jaw blackish; iris red; caudal fin bright red, speckled with dark olive; 
spinous dorsal bright red, the posterior part of each membrane black- 
ish; soft dorsal olive and red; lower fins bright light red, with shades 
of olive yellow. Body elongate, somewhat compressed, a little less 
slender than in 8. elongatus, which this species much resembles in color 
and form. Head rather small. Mouth small, much as in 8. oralis, the 
short, broad maxillary extending to beyond the middle of the eye, the 
premaxillary on the level of lower margin of pupil; maxillary 2^ in 
head; lower jaw strongly projecting, with a conspicuous symphyseal 
knob. Eye very large, longer than snout; preorbital narrow. Cranial 
ridges very low and weak; preocular, supraocular, tympanic, and occi- 
l)ital present; most of the ridges partly covered by scales; tympanic 
spine minute; occipital ridge not conspicuous, the spine depressed. 
Preopercular spines sharp, the second longest, the points of all directed 
backward; oi^ercular spines moderate. Interorbital space broad, nearly 
as broad as the eye, somewhat regularly convex, the middle being ele- 
vated. Gill-rakers very long, slender, and numerous, the longest longer 
than the supraocular ridge, and about half the diameter of the eye. 
Scales rather small. Dorsal fin very low, as in 8. oralis, not deeply 
emarginate, the highest spine little more than one-third length of head; 
soft dorsal low, half as high as long, the highest ray about equal to 
the longest spine; caudal fin moderately forked; anal fin low, its length 
nearly equal to the height of its longest ray; second spine much longer 
and stronger than the third, scarcely shorter than the longest ray, 2^ 
