664 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 



SO that Iho whole body lias a dvisky shade; top of head and back with 

 vaj,^uely deflued cross-blotches made of dark points; three obscure 

 orauge stripes radiating from the eye; maxillary with a red streak; lii)s 

 red, mottled with blackish; under side of head light red, mottled with 

 darker; inside of mouth red; fins all bright vermillion; spinous dorsal 

 spotted with olive-gray below, the membrane posteriorly edged with 

 blackish; soft dorsal spotted below with blackish, a vertical dark olive 

 streak on each membrane; other fins tipped with blackish, the mem- 

 branes more or less dotted ; no black blotch on the spinous dorsal. Body 

 oblong, the form much as in S. pinniger. Head moderate, somewhat 

 pointed. Mouth rather large, the maxillary reaching past pupil, its 

 length 2 in head; premaxillary on level of lower edge of pupil; lower 

 jaw projecting somewhat beyond upper, with a moderate symphyseal 

 knob; middle of lower jaw elevated, fitting into an emargiuation of the 

 upper. Head more completely scaly than in related species, the scales 

 also rougher, the scales on the preorbital and head generally", being fully 

 ctenoid; mandible scaled even to the symphyseal knob, its scales always 

 roughly ctenoid; interopercle fully scaled; most of the branchiostegals 

 with series of scales; maxillary, preorbital, and tij) of snout fully 

 scaled; preorbital with a narrow neck; cranial ridges low and small; 

 preocular, supraocular, postocular, tympanic, and occipital spines pres- 

 ent; iuterorbital space very broad, with a slight depression on each 

 side of a median ridge; preopercular spines rather long ijnd sharp, the 

 second the longest, the spines radiating. Gill-rakers, as in innniger, 

 very long and slender, the longest about | the diameter of the eye. 

 Dorsal fin low, rather deeply emarginate, about as in >S'. pinniger, but 

 rather higher, the soft rays higher than the spines; caudal fin slightly 

 emarginate; anal fin rather high, the second spine about as long as 

 the third and stouter, little more than half the height of the soft ravs, 

 about 3 in head; pectoral fin moderate, the tip reaching about to the 

 vent, the base rather narrow; ventrals very long, usually reaching past 

 the vent, almost to the beginning of the anal. Head 2f ; depth 3; pec- 

 torals 3i. Dorsal rays XIII-14; A. Ill, 7; Lat. 1. 47. L. 20 inches. 

 San Francisco to San Diego; not rare. 



{SchaHtichtlujs miniatus Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mu8. 1880, 70.) 



aaaa. Species with the scales of moderate size; the cranial ridges high; tympanic 

 and postocular spines both present; lower jaw little projecting; aual rays 

 III, 7; scales on bead ctenoid; gill-rakers short ; second aual si)iue usually 

 elongate. (Sebastomus* Gill.) 



*Gill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1864, 147: ^ype Sehanies roaaveus Grd. 



