270 MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM. 



Family SCORPyENID^. 



233. Sebastodes owstoni sp. nov. (Plate XXI, fig. 3). 



Described from the type, No. 6025 Carnegie Museum Catalog of Fishes, a 

 specimen from Aomori, Japan, 178 mm. in total length. Three cotypes, No. 

 6030a-c, are from the same locality. 



Head 2.9 in body without caudal; depth 3.5; eye 3.33 in head; maxillary 2.33; 

 interorbital space 4.5; snout 3.5; D. XIV, 13 (or 14) ; A. Ill, 8 (or 9) ; pores in lateral 

 Hne 35; scales in longitudinal series 55 (60) (counting oblique rows); in transverse 

 6 from insertion of dorsal to lateral line, 16 from insertion of anal to lateral line. 



Body elongate, slender; snout pointed; lower jaw with prominent symphyseal 

 knob; maxillary reaching vertical from center of eye; interorbital space broad, but 

 very slightly convex; nasal spines small, but sharp; pre-ocular spines of moderate 

 size, sharp; orbital rim not raised; supra-ocular and parietal ridges visible, not cov- 

 ered by scales, each terminating in a very small sharp spine, as does nuchal ridge; 

 pre-opercle with five flat spines; pre-orbital with a single sharp serration on lower 

 border. Teeth in a single series on mandibles, a patch on symphyseal knob; in 

 narrow bands in upper jaw. 



Dorsal spines high, fifth and highest, 2.25 in head; last spine a half longer than 

 penultimate; anal spines very long, second longest, 2 in head; pectorals reaching 

 anal insertion, as long as head; ventrals extending to anus, two-thirds head; tip of 

 last anal raj^, when supine, reaching to diameter of eye from first caudal ray; 

 caudal deeply emarginate, nearly forked. 



Color in alcohol uniformly reddish, no black on fins or body. In some specimens 

 there are faint indications of a blackish blotch below ninth to twelfth dorsal spines 

 and another below middle of soft dorsal. 



This species is most nearly allied to Sebastodes itinus Jordan and Starks, with 

 the type of which it was compared. The differences are as follows : a lesser number 

 of lateral line pores in S. owstoni, more prominent head armature, longer anal 

 spines, and longer pectoral, as well as numerous small differences in proportions. 



234. Sebastodes flammeus Jordan and Starks. (Plate XXXII, fig. 1). 



Two fine specimens of this species from the Hokkaido, three hundred and 

 thirty-seven and four hundred and seventeen millimeters in total length. No. 6463. 

 The type only has hitherto been known, a very poorly preserved specimen without 

 skin, the head stripped of skin and flesh, and the soft rays broken off. The un- 

 natural prominence of the head armature led Jordan and Starks to regard it as 

 allied to S. iracundus, but it is more nearly allied to S. steindachneri, the spines and 

 cranial ridges being nearly obscured by the flesh and skin in both. 



