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Coast of Japan at moderate depths; often taken on the long lines 

 (da))onawa) at 200 to 400 fathoms. Our specimens from Miyako and 

 Misaki, and Nemuro in Hokkaido. It was also dredged by the U. S. 

 Fish Commission steamer A/hafross in Station 3697, off Manazura 

 Point, Sagami Bay, in 265 to 120 fathoms, these figures representing 

 the depths at the beginning and end of the dredge-haul. 



(yUrt'/cpoV, long; X^^Pi hand.) 



2. SEBASTODES Gill. 



ROCK-FISHES. 



Schastodes Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, p. 165 (paudspinu). 

 Sebdnlosomus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1864, p. 147 {mrlanopK). 

 AcKfomcnfuni Euienmann and Beeson, American Naturalist, 1893, p. 669 (ovalis). 

 Frimoi^pina Eigenmann and Beeson, American Naturalist, 1893, p. 669 (mifstinus). 

 Rosicofit Jordan and Evermann, Check-List Fishes North and Middle Amer., 



1896, p. 429 ipinniger). 

 Eosebastcs J ORDAji and Evermann, Check-List Fishes North and Middle Amer., 



1896, p. 430 {aurora). 

 Emmcl as J ORDA^i and Evermann, Fish. N. and M. Am., 1898, p. 1777 (glaums). 



Body and head somewhat compressed; head large, 2f to 3f in length 

 of liody ; depth 2i to 3f in length of body ; mouth moderate or large, 

 with the jaws equal or the lower more or less projecting; the max- 

 illary reaching middle of eye or bej^ond, sometimes be3'ond posterior 

 edge of orbit, its length from If to 3 in head; teeth in villiform 

 bands on jaws, vomer, and palatines. Head more or less evenly 

 scaled, without dermal flaps; interorbital space broad, convex, widen- 

 ing markedly with age; base of skull strongly curved; cranial ridges 

 more or less developed, one or more of the following pairs alwaj's 

 present, usually ending in spines: Prcocular, supraocular, postocular, 

 tympanic, coronal, parietal, and nuchal. Five preopercular and 2 

 opercular spines; 1 to 3 spines on the suprascapula. Suborbital stay 

 moderate, usually not reaching preopercle. Gill rakers always long 

 and slender. Scales moderate or small, mostl}^ ctenoid, 35 to 100 

 transverse series. Dorsal fin continuous, emarginate, its formula 

 XHI, 12 to 16, the number of spines rarel}' 14, never 12; anal fin III, 

 6 to y. Pectorals well developed, the base broad or narrow, the lower 

 raA^s undivided. Caudal slightly rounded, truncate, or slightly forked; 

 soft parts of vertical fins more or less scaly. Pyloric ca^ca 6 to 11. 

 Vertebriv 12 + 15. Species of varied, often brilliant colors, mostly 

 red. Sexes colored alike. Air bladder present in all species .so far 

 as known. The group inhabits the two shores of the northern Pacific 

 Ocean; some of the species are extremel}^ localized; exceedinglj- 

 abundant in rocky places along the west coast of the United States and 

 .lapan. They seem to disappear rather abruptly to the southward on 

 both coasts; the number of species dwindles northward; none are Arctic 



