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This species is very abundant in southern Japan, b}' far the most 

 common representative of the genus. It is the only one often seen 

 in the markets of Nagasaki and it is abundant even so far north as 

 Tokvo. It is well figured by Schlegel as Sebastes ventricosus. Our 

 specimens are from Hakodate, Matsushima, Tokyo, Misaki, Enoshima, 

 Kobe, Onomichi, Hiroshima, Wakanoura, Nagasaki, and Tsushima. 



The nearest American ally of this species is Sebastodes JlaA)idm. 



{inennis^ unarmed.) • 



8. SEBASTODES TOKIONIS Jordan and Starks, new species. 



Head 2| in length; depth 2|. Dorsal XIII, 14; anal III, T. Pores 

 of lateral line 4.5; 14 scales in a series, running upward and back- 

 ward between anal spines and hiteral line; 9 between hiteral line and 

 posterior dorsal spines. 



Mouth moderate, maxillary extending to below middle of eye, tip 

 of lower jaw strongly projecting and entering into upper profile of 



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FlO. 3. — SEBASTODKS TOKIONIS. 



head. Teeth in narrow })ands, developed in a knob at tip of mandible. 

 Eye large, its diameter 3 in head. Interorbital slightly convex, three- 

 fourths diameter of eye. Ridges of head low; nasal, preocular, 

 supraocular, and parietal present. Preorbital with two spines, the 

 anterior one triangular, the posterior one rather sharp and directed 

 downward and backward. Gill rakers slender, two-fifths of eye, 26 

 on anterior limV) of arch. 



Pectoral long and slender, reaching well past tips of ventrals to 

 above front of anal. Ventral spine three-fifths the length of soft rays. 

 Ventrals not reaching to anal. Dorsal spines not high, equal to height 

 of soft rays, the fourth spine 2i in head. Anal scarcely reaching to 

 auxiliary caudal rays when depressed, the third spine a little longer 

 and more slender than the second. Peritoneum white. 



