106. SCORP^NID^ SEBASTODES. 
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cJirysomelas covered with thick skin; preocular, supraocular, tympanic, 
and occipital ijresent; occipital spines lower and narrower than in chry- 
somelas; preopercular spines small and bluntish. Gill-rakers short, 
clavate. Spinous dorsal always higher than in cJirysomelas, the highest 
spines 2 in head, rather higher than the soft rays, the membranes more 
deeply incised than in cJirysomelas ; caudal truncate; anal moderately 
high, the second spine, in head, stronger and slightly longer than 
third, about two-thirds height of soft rays; pectorals rather short, 
in head, about reaching to the vent, their bases very broad, the lower 
rays thickened and fleshy; ventrals reaching vent. Peritoneum white. 
Head 2§; depth 2f. D. XIII-13; A. Ill, 6; pyloric coeca 8; vertebrm 
12 -p 15; Lat. 1. 43. L. 14 inches. Coast of California, generally abun- 
dant; in rather shallow water. 
(Sebastichthijs carnatus Jor. & Gilb. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 73.) 
1031. S. chrysoDMelas Jor. & Gilb. 
Pattern of coloration precisely as in S. carnatus, the colors different ; 
light shade a clear, warm, brownish yellow, with some specks of deeper 
orange; varying from a dusky orange to olivaceous yellow, the latter 
color more often seen on the belly; dark shade, black or dark brown, 
with slight olive tinge; dark color i)redominating on the back; mem- 
brane between third and fourth dorsal spines and an area at the base 
of these spines always jiale; a yellow blotch extending thence downward 
and backward, usually joining the light color of the belly; another liglit 
area passing from near the angle of the opercle around the pectorals, 
uniting below them; three other blotches along the back, one under 
the eighth dorsal spine, one under the last spine, and one under the 
last soft ray ; from each of these, irregular pale areas extend down the 
sides; fins the color of the region to which they belong; head above 
with dusky cross-shades and faint bands radiating from the eye. Body 
short and stout, compressed. Head short, bluntish. Mouth rather 
small, entirely below the axis of the body; lower jaw slightly included ; 
premaxillaries on level of lower edge of orbit; maxillary reaching poste- 
rior margin of eye, its length 2 in head; preorbital wide. Cranial 
ridges very prominent, high and strong, covered with thick skin, ending 
in strong spines, which diverge backward; preocular, supraocular, tym- 
panic, and occipital present; preopercular spines short and thick. Gill- 
rakers as in 8. carnatus. Scales moderate, rough, the accessory ones 
few; lower jaw, maxillary, nasal region, and space in front of eye naked. 
Dorsal spines high and strong, the highest 2^ in head, rather higher 
than the soft rays, the fin deeply emarginate; second anal s,pine 2f in 
