106. SCORPyEXID^E SEBASTODES. 
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blackish olive; crauial ridges black. Body robust, compressed behiud. 
Head compressed. ]\[outli large, the maxillary reaching to oi)[)osite. 
middle of eye, its length in head: jaws equal. Cranial ridges thick, 
short, high and strong, covered with lax, thick skin, placed nearly in 
a right line on each side; preocular, supraocular, tympanic, occipital, 
and nuchal spines usually present, the latter sometimes coalescent with 
the occipital; interorbital space narrow, flat, closely scaled; preorbital 
rather broad; i)reoperciilar spines sharp; jaws naked; membranes of 
spinous dorsal thick, covered with small scales. Eye small, 5 in head. 
Gill-rakers short, stiff and clavate. Dorsal spines strong, rather low, 
scarcely exserted, lower than the soft rays, the longest 2| in head; 
second anal spines 2;^ in head, stronger than third, scarcely longer; 
pectorals broad and rounded, the lower rays thickened, the tips reach- 
ing vent; ventrals reaching beyond vent; caudal rounded. Peritoneum 
pale. Heads ; de[)th 2i ; pectoral Si. D. XlII-lS; A. Ill, 5; Lat. 1. 
50. L. 12 inches. San Francisco to Cerros Island, abundant south- 
ward; one of the most singularly marked of the rock-ffshes. 
(Sebasiiclitlnjs serriccj)S Jordan A Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Xat. Mas. 1880, .'58.) 
1034. S. iiig^i’ociiictais (Ayres) J. & G. 
Bright orange-red, with 5 jet-black vertical bars, overlaid with red ; 
these bars comparatively narrow, none of them wider than eye; one 
at beginning of dorsal, extending downward on 0 [)ercle and scaitular 
region; a second, broader one, under middle of spinous dorsal; a third 
under posterior part of spinous dorsal; the fourth narrower, under front 
of soft dorsal; the fifth under middle of soft dorsal, all of these extend- 
ing on the dorsal fin; two oblique black bands from eye, downwards 
and backwards across cheeks; another upwards and backwards towards 
the nape; fins uniform dieep orange, anal and ventrals tijiped with black- 
ish; month red. Body short, deep, and compressed, deeper than in any 
of the other species; back arched. Head large, comimessed. ^louth 
very large; maxillary extending to oeyond pupil, 2 in head; lower jaw 
very slightly projecting, the symi)hysis not produced; premaxillary 
scarcely below eye. Eye large, 4^ in head. Cranial ridges higher than 
in any other species, their spines blunt, the ridges arranged in two 
nearly parallel series as in *S'. scrriccps, the surface of the larger ones 
roughened by^ accessory spinous tubercles as in S. riibcr ; occii)ital 
ridges very high; skin covering cranial ridges thin or obsolete, not lax; 
interorbital space sparsely scaled, very narrow, its breadth a little more 
than half diameter of eye, with very strong frontal ridges, which are not 
covered by the scales; jaws naked; imeorbital broad, a low ridge extend- 
