inc. SCORPiENID^ — SEBASTODES. 661 



about 5 its height; secoud anal spine longer :nul stronger than third, 



ahnost as high as the soft rays, 2^ in head; pectorals long, reaching 



beyond tips of ventrals; caudal emarginate; maxillary and mandible 



scaly. Peritoneum black. Head 3 ; depth 2!^. D. XIIl-U; A. Ill, 8; 



pectoral 3|; height of dorsal 8; Lat. 1. about 70. L. 1-1 inches. Coast 



of California, in deep water; rare. 



(Aj-res, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sei. 18o2, '212, f. G5: Sclaatichthys oralis Jordan & Gilbert, 

 Proc!! U. S. Nat. Mas. 1880, 143.) 



1015. S. proriger Jor. & Gilb. 



Bright light red, mottled above with dusky olive-green, the ground 

 color forming distinct blotches under the third dorsal spine and under 

 the first and last rays of the soft dorsal; lateral line running in the 

 middle of a very distinct continuous red stripe, precisely as in iS. elon- 

 f/atiis; head above with purplish cross-shades; opercle with a dusky 

 blotch; two olive shades radiating from the eye; lips and tip of lower 

 jaw blackish; iris red; caudal fin bright red, speckled with dark olive; 

 spinous dorsal bright red, the posterior part of each membrane black- 

 ish; soft dorsal olive and red; lower fins bright light red, with shades 

 of olive yellow. Body elongate, somewhat comjjressed, a little less 

 slender than in S. elongaUis, which this si)ecies much resembles in color 

 and form. Head rather small. Mouth small, much as in S. ovalis, the 

 short, broad maxillary extending to beyond the niiddle of the eye, the 

 premaxillary on the level of lower margin of pupil; maxillary 2^ in 

 head; lower jaw strongly projecting, with a conspicuous symphyseal 

 knob. Eye very large, longer than snout; jireorbital narrow. Cranial 

 ridges very low and weak; preocular, supraocular, tympanic, and occi- 

 pital present; most of the ridges partly covered by scales; tympanic 

 spine minute; occipital ridge not conspicuous, the spine depressed. 

 Preopercular spines sharp, the second longest, ihc points of all directed 

 backward; opercular spines moderate. Interorbital space broad, nearly- 

 as broad as the eye, somewhat regularly convex, the middle being ele- 

 vated. Gill-rakers very long, slender, and numerous, the longest longer 

 than the supraocular ridge, and about half the diameter of the eye. 

 Scales rather small. Dorsal fin very low, as in 8. oralis, not deeply 

 emarginate, the higliest spine little more than one-third length of head; 

 soft dorsal low, linlf as high as long, the highest ray about equal to 

 the longest spine; caudal fin moderately forked; anal tin low, its length 

 nearly equal to the height of its longest ray; second spine much longer 

 and stronger than the third, scarcely shorter than the longest ray, 2^ 



