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nal half reddish, with l)i'oad dark base made of 3 or 4 bars. Anal 

 spines scarlet, l)arred with black. Soft dorsal dusky at base with pale 

 streaks, tipped with flesh color. Ventral colored like anal; first spine 

 reddish, the thin tie,-h color at tip blackish, paler at base. Pectoral 

 flesh color barred with blackish; lower rays tinged with orange. Pale 

 shades on lower flns somewhat tinged with golden. 



Here described from specimens from Misaki 1.5 to 17 cm. in length. 



The species may be separated from SehaMlehfhys pachyeepludns 

 (which it somewhat resembles) at a glance by the narrow, dee]) chan- 

 nel along middle of interorbital. The area between raised supraor- 

 bital rims in B. j>avJiycephalus is wide and scaled over. 



This small and handsome species, like the preceding, has no honio- 

 logue on the American coast. Our specimens are from rocky shores 

 about Misaki, Onomichi, and Miyajima. About the famous sacred 

 island of Miyajima it is especially abundant. 



Table of dorsal spines. 



Number 

 of speci- 

 mens. 



Locality. 



Number 



of dorsal 



spines. 



Tokyo : 14 



Misaki i 14 



Kobe 14 



Miyajima 14 



....do I 13 



Onomichi 13 



4. NEOSEBASTES Guichenot. 

 Neosebastes Guichenot, Mem. Soc. Nat. Sei., Cherbourg, XVI, 1868, p. 8.3 {panda. ) 



This genus is closeh^ allied to Sehastichthi/.s, having 13 dorsal spines, 

 which are very long and strong; a series of strong spines in a line 

 from edge of preorbital across suborbital stay and preopercle; a long 

 band of palatine teeth; armature of upper parts of head much as in 

 Sehastichthys\ vertical tins, scaleless. 



Indian seas. 



In Guichenot's arrangement ]V^eo-^ehaf<tes differs from Sehastes in 

 having the vertical tins scaleless and the lower rays of the pectorals 

 branched like the upper and not exserted. This latter character is 

 not found in the Japanese species, iV. entaxis, which may represent a 

 distinct genus. 



(j^^og, new; Sebastes.) 



22. NEOSEBASTES ENTAXIS Jordan and Starks, new species. 



Head 2f in length; depth 2|. Dorsal XIII, 9; anal III, 5 (or 6, 

 counting the last very tine ray). Pores in lateral line 31. Eye 3^ in 

 head; interorbital 5^; maxillary 2f. 



Body not greatly compressed, the back slightly elevated. Mouth 

 not very oblique, the front of premaxillary well below level of lower 



