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caudal fins, also on base of pectoral; second anal spine strong, curved, 

 longer than third; inside of mouth and gill-covers pale; peritoneum 

 silvery. 



Color in alcohol, dirt}^ yellowish; some evidence of black spots or 

 blotches along back; a black opercular spot. 



The presence of only 9 dorsal rays is doubtless due to an injury 

 which the fish had received early in life; the upper edge of caudal 

 peduncle and the region immediately in front apparently has been 

 bitten or mutilated in some wa}'. 



This species appears to be related to S. atrovirens^ from which it 

 differs, however, in the convexity of the interorbital space, shorter 



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Sebastodes alexandri. 



body, the less projecting lower jaw, the smaller eye, the weaker pre- 

 orbital spines, the longer gillrakers, and the absence of scales on the 

 mandible and maxillary. 



Described from a single specimen 8^ inches long (type. Cat. No. 

 55662 U.S.N. M.), collected by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries steamer 

 Albatross March 13, 1890, at station 3125 in 65 fathoms in Monterey 

 Bay, California. 



We take pleasure in naming this species for Mr. A. B. Alexander, 

 assistant in charge division of statistics and methods of the fisheries, 

 Bureau of Fisheries, in recognition of his long and valuable services 

 as fishery expert on the steamer Albatross. 



