G64 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
SO that the whole bod^' has a dusky shade; top of head and back wiih 
vaguely delined cross-blotches made of dark points; three obscure 
orange stripes radiating from the’eye; maxillary with a red streak; lii)s 
red, mottled with blackish; under side of bead light red, mottled with 
darker; inside of mouth red; fins all bright Vermillion; spinous dorsal 
spotted with olive-gray below, the membrane posteriorly edged with 
blackish; soft dorsal spotted below with blackish, a vertical dark olive 
streak on each membrane; other fins tipped with blackish, the mem- 
branes more or less dotted; no black blotch on the spinous dorsal. Body 
oblong, the form much as in S. pinniger. Head moderate, somewhat 
pointed. Mouth rather large, the maxilhary reaching past pupil, its 
length 2 in head; premaxillary on level of lower edge of pupil; lower 
jaw i)rojecting somewhat bejmnd upper, with a moderate symjihyseal 
knob; middle of lower jaw elevated, fitting into an emargination of the 
upper. Head more com]iletely scaly than in related species, the scales 
also rougher, the scales on the iireorbital and head generally, being fully 
ctenoid; mandible scaled even to the symi)h 3 ’seal knob, its scales always 
roughly ctenoid; interopercle fully scaled; most of the branchiostegals 
with series of scales; maxillary, preorbital, and til) of snout full}’ 
scaled; preorbital with a narrow neck; cranial ridges low and small; 
preocular, supraocular, postocnlar, tympanic, and occipital spines pres- 
ent; ioterorbital space very broad, with a slight depression on each 
side of a median ridge; preopercular spines rather long and sharp, the 
second the longest, the spines radiating. Gill-rakers, as in pinniger^ 
very long and slender, the longest about | the diameter of the eye. 
Dorsal fin low, rather deeply emarginate, about as in 8. pinniger, but 
rather higher, the soft rays higher than the spines; caudal fin slightly 
emarginate; anal fin rather high, the second spine about as long as 
the third and stouter, little more than half the height of the soft rays, 
about 3 in head; pectoral fin moderate, the tip reaching about to the 
vent, the base rather narrow; veutrals A'ery long, usually reaching past 
the vent, almost to the beginning of the anal. Head 2|; depth 3; pec- 
torals 3^. Dorsal rays XIII-14; A. Ill, 7; Lat. 1. 47. L. 20 inches. 
San Francisco to San Diego; not rare. 
{Sclastichihys miniatus Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 70.) 
aaaa. Species with the scales of moderate size; the cranial ridges high; tympanic 
and ])ostocnIar spines both present; lower jaw little projecting; anal rays 
HI, 7; scales on head ctenoid; gill-rakers short; second anal spine usually 
elongate. (SebciHtomus* Gill.) 
*Gill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1864, 147: ’^ype Sehaaies rosaceus Grd. 
