106. SCORP^NID^ SEBASTODES. 669 



1024. S. clongatus (Ayres) J. & G.—Iieina. 



Color light red; sides ubove with irregular horizoiitiil interrupted 

 olive-green bands, which are more or less broken into blotches, two of 

 these bands below the lateral line, becoming confluent behind; a dis- 

 tinct pale band following the course of the lateral line; up[)er fins 

 blotched with olive, lower pale red; head olive and blotched above, 

 pale red below; chin black. Body more eloiigate than in any of the 

 other species (except paucispinis), compressed. Head long, rather 

 pointed. Mouth large; maxillary extending to posterior margin of ])u- 

 pil, its length 2^ in head; premaxillary on level of lower margin of 

 orbit; lower jaw strongly projecting. Eye very large, longer than 

 snout, 3 J in head; interorbital space broad, concave, with low frontal 

 ridges. Cranial ridges low and long; preocular, supraocular, tympanic, 

 and occipital present; tympanic spines small; preopercular spines very 

 sharp, all pointed, directed backwards; oi)eroular spines very long and 

 sharp. Gill-rakers long and strong, the longest about one-third the eye. 

 Scales large, not very rough; accessory scales numerous. Maxillary, 

 mandible, and preorbital seal}'. Dorsal spines moderately high, rather 

 strong, the highest about equal to the soft rays, 2^ in head ; the fin not 

 deeply emarginate. Caudal fin lunate; anal fin rather low; the second 

 spine half length of head, much longer than the third, higher than the 

 soft rays; pectorals moderately broad, long, reaching beyond the tips of 

 the short ventrals to vent. Peritoneum dusky. Head 2| ; depth 3^; 

 pectoral 3^. D. XIII-13; A. HI, G; Lat. 1. 58. L. 12 inches. About 

 ]\Ionterey and San Francisco; abundant in deep water. This species 

 bears considerable resemblance to S. prorirjer. 



{Schantes clongatus Ayrcs, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. ii, 2!, 1859, f. 9.) 



aaaaaa. Species with tlie scales of moderate size; the cranial ridges well developed ; 

 the postociilar wanting; scales sinoothish; those on the hi>ad mostly cycloid ; 

 lower jaw naked, its tip protruding; peritoneum white; second anal spine 

 long. 



1035. S. rtibrivinctus Jor. & G'dh.— Spanish Flag. 



Very pale rose-red, almost white, with cross-bands of a deep, intense 

 crimson-red; these bauds broadest on the back; one of the bands runs 

 across the eye, snout, suborbital and maxillary, its boundaries indis- 

 tinct; the next across the nuchal region, front of dorsal and opercle; 

 the next across the middle of the spinous dorsal, including the ventrals 

 and the postrior half of pectorals; another across soft dorsal and anal; 

 another across base of caudal, the fin itself being deep rose color; the 

 other tins share the color of that part of the body against which they 



