5. SEBASl'ES. 97 



c. Adult : stuffed. Cape Seas. 



d. Adult : skin : bad state. Presented by the Zoological Society. 



e. Adult : skin : bad state. 



/. Adult : skin. From Gronov's Collection. 



4. Sebastes inermis. 



Seba3tes inermis, Cur. ^ Val. iv. p. 346; Faun. Japan. Poiss. p. 47. 



pi. 21. f. 3, 4. 

 caxu'inus, Richards. Voy. Sulph. Ichth. p. 77. pi. 41. f. 1. 



D. 12 1 ,3-7^,. A.f L.lat.60. 



The height of the body equals the length of the head, and is 3|- 

 in the total. The upper surface of the head is flat, with low ridges 

 and some depressed spines behind the orbit. The width of the 

 space between the orbits is one-sixth of the length of the head. 

 The upper maxillary reaches beyond the vertical from the centre of 

 the eye. The foiu'th and fifth dorsal spines are the longest, longer 

 than those of the anal, and nearly half the lengih of the head, 

 Uniform brownish. 



Sea of Japan ; north-west coast of America. 



a. Adult. Japan. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 

 5. Sebastes pachycephalus. 



Tetnm. <§- Schleg. Faun. Japan. Poiss. p. 47. ,pl. 20. f. 3; Pichards. 

 Ichthyol. Chin. p. 214. 



D. i^. A. 4. L. lat. 55. 



The superciliary and occipital ridges are enveloped in a thick 

 skin ; the upper siu-face of the head rather flat, with the spines not 

 prominent ; the space between the orbits is scaly, rather concave, 

 and its width one-eighth of the length of the head. The upper 

 maxillary reaches to the vertical from the posterior margin of the 

 eye. The fourth to ninth dorsal spines are nearly equal in length, 

 about one-third the length of the head, and equal to the second 

 anal spine. Brown, spotted with darker; fins crimson, spotted with 

 brown. 



Japanese and Chinese Seas. 



a. Adult : stuffed. Japan. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



b. Adult: skin, in spirits. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



6. Sebastes ventricosus, 



Temm. i^- Schleg. Faun. Japan. Poiss. p. 48. pi. 20. f. 1, 2 ; Sleek. 

 Verhand. Batav. Genootsch. xxvi. p. 80. 



D. 12 I -i-- A. ^. L. lat. 53. 



I 14-15 / 



The upper surface of the head is flat, with the ridges and spines 

 very feeble ; the width of the space between the eyes is one-fifth 



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