426 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 42. 



Giinther * refers a specimen to 8. inermis, remarking that the height 

 of the body is equal to the length of the head, which woidd seem to 

 indicate that he had an example of S. tokionis. Temminck and 

 Schlegel describe and figure what appears to be one of these species 

 {8. ventricosus) . "L'oeil est tres volmiiineux" and it is so illus- 

 trated in the figure which thus agrees with ;S^. tokionis, but the depth 

 measured on the figure is considerably greater than the length of the 

 head, as in the form called 8. inermis by Jordan and Starks, There 

 seems to be no way to definitely determine which of these species is 

 the 8. inermis of Cuvier and Valenciennes, or whether either of them 

 is. It appears probable that 8. inermis Giinther, 8. ventricosus 

 Temminck and Schlegel, and 8. tokionis Jordan and Starks are 

 synonymous. 



Examples of the one here called 8. inermis generally have 7 or 8 

 rays in the anal. Giinther counts 6 rays in 8. inermis. Temminck 

 and Schlegel record 7 and figure 8 for 8. ventricosus. 



SEBASTODES TOKIONIS Jordan and Starks. 



Tokyo market. 



SEBASTODES JOYNERI (Giinther). 



Hakodate and Tokyo markets. 



SEBASTODES IRACUNDUS Jordan and Starks. 



A specimen measuring 340 millimeters from the market at Mororan 

 is identified as 8. iracundus. It agrees wdth the type of this species 

 except in color and squamation, where some slight differences appear. 

 The Mororan example is without the black spot which appears on 

 the side of the body just below the spinous dorsal in the type. This 

 spot is variable in size, however, as its diameter on one side of the 

 single specimen is about equal to that of 5 scales, while on the other 

 it is scarcely more than that of 1. The Mororan specimen has a broad, 

 dark blotch on the upper part of the opercle, an indistinct, narrow, 

 dusky border along the spinous dorsal, and a few indefinite, dusky 

 clouds on the dorsal half of the body. These marks do not appear on 

 the tjrpe, although the dark opercular spot is faintly indicated. Both 

 specimens have the branchiostegal membranes blackish where they 

 are covered with the opercles, and the lining of the gill chambers and 

 the mouth also black, except the upper surface of the mouth and 

 tongue. The squamation of the type is remarkably complete, minute 

 scales covering the tip of the snout, maxillaries, mandibles, chin, 

 throat, and branchiostegals rays. The Mororan specimen has naked 

 spots in these regions, an occasional pit indicating that the scales may 

 be deciduous in limited areas. 



8ebastodes iracundus is closely related to 8. melanostomus of the 

 California coast, with which it may even be identical. Two 



> Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., pi. 2, p. 97. 



