106. SCORP^NID^ SEBASTODES. 
669 . 
1024. S. eloiigatus (Ayres) J. & G.—Pieina. 
Color light red; sides above with irregular horizontal interrupted 
olive-green bands, which are more or less broken into blotches, two of 
these bands below the lateral line, becoming contluent behind; a dis- 
tinct pale band following the course of the lateral line; upper fins 
blotched with olive, lower pale red; head olive and blotched above, 
pale red below; chin black. Body more elongate than in any of the 
other species (except paiicispinis), compressed. Head long, rather 
pointed. Mouth large; maxillary extending to posterior margin of ])u- 
pil, its length 2| in head; premaxillary on level of lower margin of 
orbit; lower jaw strongly projecting. Eye very large, longer than 
snout, 3^ in head; interorbital space broad, concave, with low frontal 
ridges. Cranial ridges low and long; preocular, supraocular, tympanic, 
and occipital i)resent; tympanic spines small; i)reopercular spines very 
sharp, all ])ointed, directed backwards; oj)ercular spines very long and 
sharp. Gill-rakers long and strong, the longest about one-third the eye. 
Scales large, not very rough; accessory scales numerous. Maxillary, 
mandible, and preorbital scaly. Dorsal spines moderately high, rather 
strong, the highest about equal to the soft rays, 2^ in head; the fin not 
deeply emarginate. Caudal fin lunate; anal fin rather low; the second 
spine half length of head, much longer than the third, higher than the 
soft rays; pectorals moderately broad, long, reaching beyond the tips of 
the short ventrals to vent. Peritoneum dusky. Head 2|; depth 3^; 
pectoral 3^. D. XIII-13; A. Ill, G; Lat. 1. 58. L. 12 inches. About 
Monterey and San Francisco; abundant in deep water. This species 
bears considerable resemblance to S. proriger. 
{Sehastes clongaius Ayres, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. ii, 26, 1859, f. 9.) 
aaaaaa. Species with the scales of moderate size; the cranial ridges well developed ; 
the postocnlar wanting; scales smoothish; those on the head mostly cycloid ; 
lower jaw naked, its tip protruding; iieritoneam white; second anal spine 
long. 
1025. S. I’Hbi'iviiictus Jor. & G'llh.— Spanish Flag. 
Very pale rose-red, almost white, with cross- bands of a deep, intense 
crimson-red; these bauds broadest on the back; one of the bands runs 
across the eye, snout, suborbital and maxillary, its boundaries indis- 
tinct; the next across the nuchal region, front of dorsal and opercle; 
the next across the middle of the spinous dorsal, including the ventrals 
and the postrior half of [)ectorals; another across soft dorsal and anal ; 
another across base of caudal, the fin itself being deep rose color; the 
other fins share the color of that part of the body against wliich they 
