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round dark olive spots; belly unspotted; tlioracic region pink; spinous 
dorsal blackish, its middle part with many roundish pale spots, forming 
a continuous stripe, besides smaller black spots; caudal and pectoral 
with vertical bars of dark and pale spots; soft dorsal and anal spotted; 
ventrals pinkish, little spotted; jaws and branchiostegals yellowish, 
more or less mottled ; axil pale, with round dark spots. Body robust, 
little compressed; interorbital space not very deeply concave; a pit at 
the vertex in front of occipital ridges, much broader than long. Mouh 
very broad, little oblique, the lower jaw included; maxillary 21- in head, 
reaching posterior margin of orbit. Gill-rakers very short, broad, com- 
pressed. Cranial *spines bluntish, high; preocular, supraocular, post- 
ocular, tymi)auic, occipital, nuchal, and exoccipital present, besides a 
bifid spine between the exoccipital and orbit; u])per imeopercuiar spine 
longest; oiiercnlar spines not large; suprascapular spines 3, knife-like; 
suborbital region without pit, but with a bony carina on which are 
2 or 3 bluntish spines. Head naked; breast, and region before pec- 
torals, covered with small imbedded scales (with exception of opercnlar 
flap); anterior margin of preorbitals, margin of preopercle, and nostrils 
with skinny flaps; 1 or 2 rather small flaps above eye, besides several 
smaller ones on various parts of the head. Scales small, nowhere dis- 
tinctly ctenoid; nearly every scale on the upper parts of body with a 
small membranous flap. Dorsal spines high, higher than the soft rays, 
the longest 24 in head; second anal spine longest and much the strong- 
est, 3 in head; pectoral very broad, short, and rounded, its lower rays 
irrocurrent, its tij) reaching beyond the ventrals to vent, its base more 
than ^ head, its length 3.J in body; caudal rounded. Peritoneum white. 
Head 2|; depth 3. D. XII. 10; A. HI, 5; Lat. 1. 30 (tubes) ; 50-G0 scales. 
L. 12 inches. Coast of California, from Point Concepcion southward; 
very abundant. 
(Grcl. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila. 1854, 145; Grd. U. S. Pac. R. R. Snrv. Fisli. 77, pi. 
17: Sehasta2)istes yuttatus Gill, iu Street’s Bulletin, U. S. Nat. Mus. vii, 1877, 62.) 
1037. S. plnaiBieri Bloch. — Rascacio. 
Olive browm, excessively marbled with silvery and reddish; fins pro- 
fusely variegated; caudal barred with browm and silvery; a dark blotch 
on spinons dorsal, between the 6th and 7th spines; axil black, with 
white spots. Body short and thick. Head irregular iu form, with nu- 
merous grooves and pits, and many fleshy slips; a large deep pit below 
the eye, betw'een it and the front of suborbital stay ; supraocular flap at 
