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spine shortest; equal in length to width of interorbital space; second 

 equal in length to ninth and tenth; third to sixth twice as long- as iirst; 

 interspinal meni))ranes deepl^v incised. Longest dorsal rays as long as 

 third spine. First anal spine a little less than half as long as second, 

 somewhat more than half as long as third; second spine strong. Edge 

 of caudal concave; 8 lowermost rays of pectoral simple; uppermost 

 simple ray. in middle of fin, longest, extending to a vertical through 

 insertion of anal. Ventrals extending to vent. Color, in alcohol, light 

 red, w^ith brownish, cloud-like blotches of irregular shape, a blotch 

 equal in width to half the diameter of orbit extending from insertion 

 of dorsal downward to lower edge of interopercle, the brownish color 

 darker on upper part of opercle; a patch of dark color on upper median 

 part of body, spreading over posterior two-thirds of spinous dorsal, 

 extending posteriorly below base of soft dorsal, and reaching upward 

 on anterior part of the latter fin; a dark band on posterior dorsal part 

 of caudal peduncle. 



This species is known onh^ from the original types taken at the 

 mouth of the ba}^ of Tokyo, and a third specimen taken with long lines 

 off Misaki. It is related to Sehastodes hopkinsi of the California coast. 



(aKvdpoTtoq^ pouting, having a protruding lower lip.) 



14. SEBASTODES FUSCESCENS (Houttuyn). 

 KURO SOI (BLACK ROCK FISH.) 



/S;partts/uscesc<?HS Houttuyn, Verb. Holl. Maats. Wet. Harlem., XX, Pt. 2, 1872, 



p. 340; Nagasaki. 

 Sehastes inerrnis Schlegel, Fauna .Taponica Poi?s., plate; not of Cnvier and 



Valenciennes. 

 Sebastca schler/elii Hilgendorf, S. B. Gesell. Naturf. Freunde, 1880, j). 171, with 



plate; Tokyo, Hakodate. — Steindachner and Doderlein, Fische Japans, II, 



Wien, 1884, p. 202; Tokyo, Strielok, Hakodate. 

 Sehastodes schlegeli J(mr>AS and Evermann, Fish. N. and M. Am., II, 1898, p. 1834; 



after Steindachner. 

 Sehastodes nigromaculatus'^ GiJj^i'niER, Ann. Majj;. Nat. Hist., 1873, p. 377; Chi-fu, 



China, coll. Mr. Swinhoe. 

 Sehastodes hakodatis J orb \y! and Snyder, I'roc. I". S. Nat. Mus. , 1901, p. 361, pi. 



xiv; Hakodate (No. 49394, U. S. Nat. Mus., Coll. Alhatross). 



«Dorsal XIII, 12; anal III, 8; lateral line 75 (pores doubtless nuicb fewer). 



Height of body a little less than length of head, and one-third total (without 

 caudal). Scales rather irregular. Upper surface of head scaly, flat, with very low, 

 plain ridges, without prominent spines. Superciliary edge not elevated; width of 

 interorbital one-fifth length of head. Lower edge of preorbital and preoperculum 

 with acute spines. Maxillary reaching nearly to vertical from hind margin of orbit. 

 The fifth, sixth, seventh (or the fourth, fifth, sixth) dorsal spines longest, longer 

 than anal spines and not half length of head. A deep notch between dorsal fins. 



Brownish or greenish brown, with numerous irregular, black spots about as large 

 as pupil; an oblique brown streak from lower part of eye toward the angle of the 

 perculum; fins black, 7^ inches long. (Giinther. ) 



This species described, from the Chinese side of the Sea of Japan, seems to be 

 identical with Sehasfodca fvsrescens. 



