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head, the next to the last f eye; the last equals eye. When fin is 

 depressed, the next to the last spine reaches along the basal third of 

 the last. Tips of last dorsal rays reach to within half the diameter of 

 the eye of the base of upper axillary caudal rays. Second anal spine 

 not nearly so long as third, its length equal to eye. First spine one- 

 third eye. Caudal concave. 



Scales strongly ctenoid on body and top of head, less strongly- on 

 cheeks. Fine scales on mandible, preorbital, and maxillary. Pec- 

 toral, ventrals, soft dorsals, and caudal, with fine scales nearly to tips 

 of rays, basal half of anal with scales. Peritoneum black. 



Color creamy brown; top of head and upper part of sides clouded 



Fig. 1.— Sebastodes itintjs. 



with dusky; lateral line running in a conspicuous light streak. Upper 

 part of opercles with a black spot. 



This species is known from a single example taken at Hakodate, 27 

 cm. in length. It much resembles the "Willow-maiden," Sebastodes 

 xfelndaclineri., differing from it in having smaller scales, a more slender 

 body, a smaller mouth, scales on mandible, and man}- minor characters. 

 It is an ally of Sehastodes entoinelas. 



Type. — No. Y368, Ichthyological collections, Leland Stanford Junior 

 University Museum. 



(irsivog.^ of the willow, in allusion to the common name Yanagi-no- 

 mai.) 



5. SEBASTODES. STEINDACHNERI (Hilgendorf) . 



AKA SOI (RED ROCK-FISH); YANAGI-NO-MAI (WILLO\V-MAIDEN). 



Sebasies steindachneri Hilgendorf, S. B. Ges. Natur. Freunde, Berlin, 1880, p. • 

 172, with plate; Yezo. — J(jrdan and Evermann, Fish. N. M. Am., II, 

 1898; p. 1880, copied. 



Head 2f in length; depth ^f. Dorsal XIH, 14; anal HI, 7. Eye 4 

 in head; snout 4; interorbital 4^. Lateral line with 30 pores. 



Mouth large, the maxillary reaching to posterior edge of orbit. 

 Lower jaw strongly projecting, a knob de\'eloped at symphysis. Teeth 



