N0.1351. SCORPJ'JNOTD FTSHES OF JAPAN -JORDAN AND STARKS. 1()7 



Color ill life bright red; in spirits colorless or flesh color; the fins 

 without Miarkino-.s; the upper })art of opercle shows traces of a difl'use 

 (luskv blotch. 



This species is known to us only from specimen ii8 cm. in length 

 taken with the long lines at Misaki. It is an ally of SrhasfichtJiys 



(Named for Shinnosuke Matsubara, director of the Imperial Fish- 

 eries Institut(> in Tokyo.) 



II. SEBASTODES IRACUNDUS Jordan and Starks, new species. 



Head 2| in length; depth 2|. Dorsal XIII, 13; anal III, 8. Pores 

 of lateral line 80. Eye 8| in head; maxillary 2i; interorbital width 5. 



Snout blunt. Lower jaw projecting and with a large symph^'seal 

 knob. ]\Iouth large; maxillary not quite reaching to below posteinor 



Fk;. 4. — SEBASTODES IRACUNDUS. 



orbital rim. Teeth rather sharp, set in narrow bands at sides of jaws, 

 and becoming much wider anteriorly; tip of mandible with a small 

 knob of teeth which tits in a notch in premaxillaries; vomer with a 

 narrow V-shaped patch; palatines with a short narrow patch. Cranial 

 spines without ridges except at occiput, where they are sharp, but rather 

 low. Spines very slender, but sharp. Nasal, preocular, postocular, 

 tympanic, parietal, and (on one side) nuchal spines present. Pre- 

 or])ital Avith » lobes, the anterior one broadly rounded, the other 2 

 aiigulated, but without spines. The 3 upper prco])(M-cular spines i-loser 

 together than the others; the next to the uppiM-most the largest; all 

 directed backward. The 2 lower ones directed downward and back- 

 ward, dill rakers two-fifths diameter of orbit; 21 on anterior limb of 

 arcli. 



Pectoral reaching just past vent, but not to anal fin; its lower J> rays 

 shnple, 11 branched rays. Ventrals not reaching to vent by a distance 



