•670 COXTRIBUTIONS TO XORTII AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
lio. Cody robust, rather deep and compressed. Head long, acute in 
profile, there being a nearly straight slope from a bony prominence in 
front of the spinous dorsal to the tip of the lower jaw. Mouth rather 
large, oblique, the lower jaw iirojecting; maxillary broad, extending to 
opposite the middle of the eye; its length 2^ in head; premaxillary on 
level of lower border of eye; cranial ridges quite low, their spines 
bluntish and depressed; preocular, supraocular, tympanic, and occipital 
ridges present ; interorbital space fiattish, narrow, not so broad as the 
eye, not widened behind, with sparse, smooth scales; two long frontal 
ridges extend the length of the interorbital space; these are covered 
with bare skin; behind and between these are two shorter ridges cov- ‘ 
ered by naked skin; occipital ridges long, curved, diverging behind; 
mandible naked; maxillary with a few scales; suborbital stay very 
prominent, its tip nearly reaching the preopercle; jireopercular spines 
very strong, the second longest; opercular spines long; preorbital 
wide. Eye very large, its diameter 3f in length of head. Gill-rakers 
rather short, robust, much compressed, the longest about one-fourth the 
length of the eye. Scales on head all small and thin, mostly cycloid; 
scales of body smoother than usual; accessory scales very numerous. 
Dorsal spines robust, rather high, the fifth not quite half the length of 
the head; those behind rapidly shortened, the membrane joining the 
thirteenth spine below its middle; soft rays about as high as spines ; 
caudal slightly emarginate; anal low, its second spine 2^ in head, much 
longer and stronger than third, both robust; pectorals moderate, not 
reaching vent, 3| in length; the base equal to diameter of eye; ven- 
trals not reaching tips of iiectorals. Peritoneum white. Head 2i; 
depth 2.V D. XIII-12; A. Ill, 7; Lat. 1. 55. L. 15 inches. Santa 
Barbara to Monterey, in deep water; rare. In life, the most brilliantly 
colored large fish in our waters. 
(Sebastichihi/s ruhrivinctus Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 291.) 
aaaaaaa. Species with the scales of moderate size, the cranial ridges strong and 
mostly high, hot not sharp, the postocnlar wanting; the jaws nearly equal, 
the lower naked; the gill-rakers short; the pectorals broad, with thickened 
lower rays; anal III, 5 to III, 7. (Sebastichthijs* Gill.) 
1026. S. aui'icialatus (Grd.) J. & G. 
Color blackish brown, much mottled with light brown; toji of head 
dark ; a dark blotch on the upper angle of the opercle ; entire body 
Hushed with brownish red, this color most noticeable on front of head; 
*Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1802, 278: typo Scbastcs nigrocinctus Ayres: 
{de/3cx6roi, magniticent; fish.) 
