C)16 CONTEIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
liead, imicli stronger than third, the two about equal in length; pec- 
toral 3 a in head, with very broad base, reaching beyond the tips of the 
ventrals, whicli reach nearly to the vent; lower pectoral rays thick- 
ened; caudal truncate. Peritoneum pale. Head 23; depth 23. D. 
XIII, 13; A. Ill, G. Lat. 1.45. L.13 inches. San Francisco to San 
Diego, abundant in rather deep water. 
(Sehastichthijs clirijsomelas Jor & Gilb. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 455, 465.) 
1032. S. laelsiaSosBSS (Ayres) Jor. & Gilb. — Garrupa. 
Ground eolor blue-black of varying shade, sometimes tinged with 
yellowish anteriorly, everywhere finely and irregularly freckled and 
spotted Math yellow or white, the light color usually bright and 
sharply defined; these spots smallest and most numerous on head; a 
Itroad irregular yellow band, made of confluent blotches, from be- 
tween the third and fourth dorsal spines, involving their membranes, 
downvmrd to the lateral line, thence backward to base of caudal; fins 
all black, with light spots at base; under parts soiled yellow. Body 
robust, the back elevated, the iirofile steep. Mouth rather large, the 
jav^s equal, the maxillary 2 in length of head, extending to beyond 
pupil; jaws naked. Eye large. Cranial ridges high and thick, com- 
paratively short; preocular, supraocular, tympanic, and occipital pres- 
ent, the latter much higher than in chrysomelas, and bulging so that its 
base is narrower than its upper part; interorbital space narrovr; pre- 
opercular si)ines short. Gill-rakers as in chrymmelas. Dorsal rather 
high, considerably emarginate, the highest spines, 2 in head, higher 
than the soft rays; caudal truncate; second anal spine 2^- in head, 
stouter and slightly longer than third, much lower than the soft rays; 
pectorals short and broad, 34 in length, reaching beyond tips of ven- 
trals to vent. Scales rough, the accessory scales numerous. Peritoneum 
pale. Head 3; depth 2f. D. XITI-13; A. HI, 7; Lat. 1. 49. L. 12 
inches. Pacific coast, from Vancouver’s Island to ^Monterey, in rather 
deep water; abundant. 
(Sehaxtes fasdatus Grd. i’roc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pblla. 1854, 146, aud in U. S. Pac. R. R. 
Snrv. Fish. 79, not of Storcr: Sehasles nebnlonus Ayre.s, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. i, 5, 1854: 
8d>astk}ti]njs fatsciolaris Lockiiigton, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns. 1880,297 ) 
1033. S. sei’B’iceps Jordan & Gilbert. — Tree-fish. 
Dark olive, blackish above, yellowish below; sides with about 7 
oblique black cross-bands, wider than eye, usually sharply defined, but 
sometimes faint in the young; two black bands downward and back- 
ward from eye; lips, mouth, front and lower jiart of head strongly 
washed with coppery red; bases of fins with small whitish spots; fins 
