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spot; fins light reddish; dorsal speckled at base with light and dark, 

 liody robfist, heavy forwards, tapering into a slender caudal peduncle. 

 Head rather pointed in profile. Month large, oblique, the lower jaw 

 slightly projecting beyond the emarginated tip of the npijer jaw; a 

 small knob at the symphysis; maxillary very broad, extending be- 

 yond pupil, its middle part with many small scales, its length 2 in 

 head; premaxillary in front just below the level of the eye; mandible 

 almost entirely covered with small rough scales; mnzzle and precrbital 

 scaled to the tip of the snout; head densely covered with small scales. 

 Cranial ridges rather high and narrow; jHeocular, supraocular, post- 

 oenlar, tympanic, and occipital iiresent; interorbital area concave, 

 vdth 2 i^rorainent ridges covered b}' scales; supraocular ridge rather < 

 short; occipital ridge long, curved, ending in a sharp spine; i)reopercle 

 with its Second spine long and sharp; proorbital wide, its edge lobed. 

 Eye large, 4 in head. Gill-rakers short, clavate, the longest of them 

 about one-fifth the diameter of the eye. Scales stronglj- ctenoid, the 

 accessory scales largely develoi^ed. Dorsal spines rather strong and 

 low, the fourth more than one-third the length of the head; the fin 

 rather deeply emaiginate; soft dorsal rather low, about as high as the 

 second anal spine, 2f in head, robust, curved considerably longer than 

 the third or the soft rays; caudal slightly emarginate; pectorals rather 

 narrow, reaching beyond ventrals, about to vent, their length two- 

 thirds that of the head. Peritoneum white. Head 2^; depth 2i. I). 

 XIll-13; A. Ill, 6; Lat. 1. 53. L. 15 inches. Coast of California, from 

 San Francisco southward, abundant in deep water; a brilliantly-colored 

 fish. 



(Scbastichlhys constcUatus Jor. & Gilb. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 295.) 



1021. S. rosaceus (f4rd.) J. & G. — Corsair. 



Bright orange red, the young strongly tinged or mottled with golden 

 yellow; back with 4 pale spots, arranged precisely as in S. constcUatus, 

 rhodochloris, and chJorostictiis ; these always voiy distinct, of a rose- 

 ])ink color, or sometimes ahnost white; the darker border around them 

 is of a deep purple or blood color, never greenish ; fins rosy, mottled 

 with orange; head with radiating stripes of orange and rosy; nape with 

 alternating bars of yellowish and deep red, the colors blending; no de- 

 cided green, and no sui' U pink spots anjwhere. Body oblong, liitle 

 elevated. Head rather pointed. Mouth moderate, the jaws about 

 equal, the lower with a small knob; maxillary not reaching posterior 

 border of eye; its length 2 in head; premaxillaiies below the oibit. 



