106. SCORP^NID^ SEBASTODES. 
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a brownish reel streak along middle of maxillary, and a second from the 
preorbital downwards and backwards across the cheek ; another from 
eye to lower part of opercle; tins all marked with dark and light, olive 
and reddish, the latter line especially on the ventrals and anal; base of 
pectoral blackish; northern specimens are more blackish, and less uni- 
form in color; old specimens are often nearly uniform reddish l>rown; 
the young sometimes with obscure dark bars, the caudal fin speckled. 
Body oblong; rather deep. Mouth moderate, below axis of body, the 
jaws nearly equal; maxillary reaching beyond eye, its length 2^ in 
head; preorbital broad; interorbital space concave on each side of a 
broad median ridge; preocular, supraocular, tympanic, coronal, and 
occipital spines present, the latter sometimes divided; preopercnlar 
spines long, all directed backward, the second longest; opercular 
spines weak; 3 suprascapular spines. Scales on body large, ctenoid; 
accessoiy scales not very numerous; mandible naked. Spinous dorsal 
high, the longest spine 2 in head, higher than the soft rays, which 
are much elevated; second anal spine longer and stronger than third, 
2-^ in head; soft part of anal high; pectorals rather short and broad, 
the tips barely reaching the vent, their length 3J in body; ventrals 
reaching to vent; caudal truncate. Head 3i; depth 2^. D. ^III, 
13; A. Ill, 7 ; Lat. 1. 45. L. 18 inches. Pacific coast, from Vancouver’s 
Island to Cerros Island, very abundant ; the only species entering 
the bays and caught with hook and line from the wharves. It may 
be known at once by the coronal spines, which are developed on no 
other American species of the genus. In some of our specimens from 
the Gulf of Georgia these spines are obsolete on one or both sides. 
(Sehastes aiiricidatus Grd. Proc. Acad. Xat. Sci. Plida. 1854, 131, 14G, and U. S. P.ac. 
R. R. Surv. Fish. 80: Sehadcs aio'iculatns Ayres, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 1862, 215, f. 68: 
Sehasfes ruber \aT. jiarrus Ayres, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. i, 7, 1854.) 
1027. §. rastrciligea’ Jor. & Gilb . — Grass Eoclc-fsb. 
Blackish green, with paler mottlings, the sides spotted with darker; 
belly pole greenish ; jiaired fins dark, often bordered with reddish ; other 
fins chiefly olivaceous, spotted with darker; the brightness of the olive 
and greenish shades is quite variable, but the species is always without 
definite markings and without bright red. Body oblong, deepest at the 
shoulders. Head short, blunt. Mouth moderate, little oblique, the max- 
illary reaching to the posterior margin of the eye, its length 2 ^ in head; 
the premaxillary rather below the. level of the eye; jaws equal, without 
symphyseal knob. Eye small, anterior, 4^ in head. Cranial ridges 
