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— obliterated. There is always a light area above the anal, and, less 

 constantly, upon the belly. The lighter longitudinal stripes usually 

 show and the lower fins are scarcely involved. Other males are dusky 

 brown with the yellow bars persisting, and still others are no darker 

 than the females. Though the females vary considerably in depth 

 of color, they never nearly approach the black males in this respect. 



Family SCORP.^NID.^. 

 10. Sebastodes melanops (Girard). 

 Two specimens of this species were taken exhibiting two extremes 

 of color variation. One is black on the upper parts, and the fins 

 are black, or dusky black on the ventrals and anal, while the side is 

 unevenly covered with irregular spots. The other specimen is light 

 all over; the upper parts dusky, the spinous dorsal dark, but the other 

 fins only slightly tinged with dusky, the ventrals and pectorals being 

 nearly colorless, and the spots on the side only faintly indicated. 



II. Sebastodes introniger Gilbert. 



A single specimen four inches in length was taken with the dredge. 

 It agrees very well with the original description and with some speci- 

 mens taken near Unalaska. Coronal spines are present; the head 

 is contained 2.75 times in the length; it has thirty-two scales in the 

 lateral line (pores); the second and third anal spines are subequal, 

 and it has all of the characters alleged by Dr. Gilbert to distinguish 

 the species from Sebastodes melanostomus, with which it has been 

 confounded. 



The specimen from Puget Sound is yellowish in alcohol (bright red 

 in life) with scattered dark spots representing indefinite cross-bars; 

 a black spot on the opercle; dusky lines radiating from the eye; the 

 ventrals tipped with black; the pectorals colorless; the distal half of 

 the anal, caudal, and soft dorsal rays black; and the spinous dorsal 

 narrowly margined with black. 



12. Sebastodes deani Starks, sp. nov. (Plate XXIX.) 

 Head 2.6 in the length to the caudal base; depth 3.25. Eye 3 

 in head. Dorsal XIII, 14; anal III, 7; forty-five pores in lateral line; 

 the lower jaw projects greatly and enters the profile, and has a large, 

 rather sharp, symphysial knob. The teeth are in very narrow bands, 

 in a single series on the side of the lower jaw, but growing wider 



