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spot; fins light reddish; dorsal speckled at base with light and dark. 
]>ody rolxist, heavy forwards, tapering into a slender candal peduncle. 
Head rather pointed in i)rofile. Month large, oblique, the lower jaw 
slightly projecting beyond the emarginated tip of the upper jaw; a 
small knob at the symphysis; maxillary very broad, extending be- 
yond pnpil, its middle part with many small scales, its length 2 in 
head; premaxillary in front just below the level of the eye; mandible 
almost entirely covered with small rough scales; muzzle and precrbital 
scaled to the tip of the snout; head densely covered with small scales. 
Cranial ridges rather high and narrow; preocular, supraocular, post- 
ocular, tympanic, and occipital present; iuterorbital area concave, 
with 2 prominent ridges covered by scales; supraocular ridge rather 
short; occipital ridge long, curved, ending in a sharp spine; preopercle 
with its second spine long and sharp; preorbital wide, its edge lobed. 
Eye large, 4 in head. Gill-rakers short, clavate, the longest of them 
about one-fifth the diameter of the eye. Scales strongly ctenoid, the 
accessory scales largely developed. Dorsal spines rather strong and 
low, the fourth more than one-third the length of the head; the fin 
rather deeply emaiginate; soft dorsal rather low, about as high as the 
second anal spine, 2f in head, robust, curved considerably longer than 
the third or the soft rays; caudal slightly emarginate; i)ectorals rather 
narrow, reaching beyond ventrals, about to vent, their length two- 
thirds that of the head. Peritoneum white. Head 2^; dei)th 2^. D. 
XHl-13; A. HI, 6; Lat. 1. 53. L. 15 inches. Coast of California, from 
Sail Francisco southward, abundant in deep water; a brilliantly-colored 
fish. 
(Sebasticltiliys constellatus Jot. & Gilb. Proc. U. S. Nat. Miis. 1880, 295.) 
1021. S. I'osaceiis (Grd.) J. & G. — Corsair. 
Bright orange red, the young strongly tinged or mottled with golden 
yellow; back with 4 pale spots, arranged precisely as in 8. consfeUatus, 
rhodochlork, and chlorostictns ; these always very distinct, of a rose- 
])ink color, or sometimes almost white; the darker liorder around them 
is of a deep puiqile or blood color, never greenish ; fins rosy, mottled 
with orange; head with radiating strqies of orange and rosy; nape with 
alternating bars of yellowish and deep red, the colors blending; no de- 
cided green, and no snu;U pink spots anywhere. Body oblong, liitle 
elevated. Head rather pointed. Mouth moderate, the jaws about 
equal, the lower with a small knob; maxillary not reaching posterior 
border of eye; its length 2 in head; premaxillaiies below the orbit. 
