658 COXTRIBUTIOXS TO XORTH AMERICAX ICHTHYOLOGY — IV. 



lOllO. S, saaelamops (Grd.) Ayres. 



Olive brown, dark above, the sides paler; upper part of sides tliickly 

 marked witli small slaty -black blotches; head blackish above; a dark 

 streak on maxillary and one from eye across cheeks; fins dusky, the 

 dorsal paler at base, with many round dark olive-brown spots; a black 

 opercular spot; lower rays of pectorals often tiuged with orange. Body 

 comparatively elongate, highest at shoulders. Head long, in form 

 intermediate between mysHnus and flavidus ; snout rather sharp. Mouth 

 large, oblique, the maxillary not quite reaching i^osterior margin of 

 orbit; its length a little less than half head; lower jaw protruding, its 

 tip on a line with the descending profile; premaxillaries on the level of 

 the lower margia of pnj)il. Eye large. Cranial ridges almost obsolete, 

 all scaled over and without spines in the adult ; preocular spines obso- 

 lete, the space forward of the eye not projecting; x>reopercular spines 

 short, but sharp. Gill-rakers longer than in mystinns, very slender. 

 Dorsal rather low, deeply emarginate, the highest spines 2^ in head, 

 a little lower than the soft rays; caudal slightly emarginate. Anal 

 spines small, the second shorter but stouter than third, longer than 

 eye; pectorals short and rather broad, not reaching as far as tips of 

 ventrals, which scarcelj^ reach vent. Scales moderate; accessory scales 

 jiumerous; mandible, maxillary, preorbital, and snout closely scaled. 

 Peritoneum white. Head 3; depth 2§. D. XHI-IG; A. Ill, 8; Lat. 1. 

 53; scales 00-70; pectoral 4|. L. 20 inches. Monterey to Sitka; most 

 abundant northward. At San Francisco much less common than *S^. 

 mystinus. 



{£eba>ites melauops Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila. viii, 135, 1854, and in IT. S. 

 Pac. R. R. Surv. Fisb. 81; Ayres, Proc, Cal. Acad. Sci. 1862, 213, f. 6G: Sebastes 

 nielanop-i Giiutlier, ii, 96: Sehastosomus siiiinlans Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, 

 147.) 



1011. S. ciaiatus (Tiles.) J. &. G. 



Blackish green, the sides rather i^ale, much mixed with darker; dark 

 shades from eye backward; a black streak on maxillary; fins all dusky, 

 the upper fins somewhat mottled; adult said to have the body and fins 

 tinged with red. Body rather deep and compressed. Mouth smaller 

 than in melanopSj the maxillary reaching to below posterior margin of 

 pupil; lower jaw somewhat projecting, but without prominent knob at 

 the symphysis; cranial ridges all obsolete, covered by scales; no pre- 

 ocular spine or any bulge of the skull in that region; preorbital narrow, 

 without spine; preopercular spines short and broad; opercular and su- 

 prascapular spines small; lower jaw fully scaled, roughish. Head well 



