124 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxvii. 



Upper parts of head with scales to tip of snout. Maxillary and pre- 

 orbital with scales. Suborbital and mandible naked, the latter with 

 three large pores on its lower side. Base of pectoral caudal and soft 

 dorsal with scales; other fins naked. Pectoral reaching- to a])ove l)ase 

 of third anal spine; it has 10 simple rays and T branched ones. Ventrals 

 bare!}" reaching to front of anal. Dorsal and anal spines each with a 

 longitudinal channel, as in the genus Xeos^'ha.ste-^. The anterior dorsal 

 spines strongly curved. Third, fourth, and fifth dorsal spines of 

 about equal length, 2i in head; the thirteenth higher than the twelfth 

 b}^ half the diameter of the pupil. Second anal spine much stronger 

 and larger than third, nearly as long as soft rays, If in head; the third 

 2f ; the first 2i in the second. Peritoneum white. 



Color in spirits: Body and fins with little color remaining. Indica- 

 tions of a dusky blotch under first dorsal spine, one under middle of 

 spinous dorsal and one under last spine. A black spot on spinous 

 dorsal from ninth to twelfth spine; fins otherwise colorless. 



This species is known to us from a single example, 85 mm. long, 

 dredged by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Alhatross at Station 

 3720, in Suruga Bay, off Ose Point, in 63 fathoms. It is numbered in 

 the U. S. National Museum 50907. 



{KpoffffcoTog^ fringed.) 



6. SEBASTISCUS Jordan and Starks, new genus. 

 Sebastisais Jordan and Starks, new genus {marmomtns). 



This genus is based on species having the external appearance of 

 Sehastodes and much resemblance to the subgeneric group called 

 Pteropodus^ but having but 12 spines in the dorsal fin and the vertebrjB 

 10+14=24, agreeing in these regards with Scor2?eena. From Ilell- 

 Golemis^ 8(3l>ast!scus differs, solely, perhaps, in the presence of a well- 

 developed air ])ladder. Peritoneum pale. The two known species 

 are very much alike and both very abundant in Japan. 



[ffefSaaTiffKog, a diminutive form, from Sebastes.) 



rt. Color olivaceous, mottled with darker; no spine below eye; shore species. 



marntDratioi, 24. 



u((. Color rose red, marbled with golden and violet; a small spine close below lower 



margin of eye; species inhabiting deeper water alhnfasridfus, 25. 



24. SEBASTISCUS MARMORATUS (Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



KASAGO. 

 Srhastes inarmunttus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 1829, p. .i45; 



Japan, Coll. Langsdorf. — Schlec{el, Fauna Japonica, 1843, p. 46, pi. xxi, fig. 



1, 2; Nagasaki. — Gunther, Cat. Fish, II, 1860, p. 104; Japan, China.— 



Steindachner, Fische Japans, III, 1884, p. 32; Tokyo. — Nystrom, Kong. 



Vet. Handl., 1887, p. 20; Nagasaki.— Ishikawa, Prel. Cat., 1897, ]). ol; 



Fuknshima, Tokyo, Kii. 

 HelicolenuH marmoratns J onDA^ and Snyder, Check List, 1901, p. 98; Hakodate. 

 Sehastes crassisjmiisD'6T>ERi.Eii^, Fische Japans, III, 1884, jj. 32; Tokyo. 

 f Sebastes sinensis McClelland, Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist., IV, 1843, p. 397, pi. 



XXI, fig. 3; Chusan, China. 



