748 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NEW JERSEY. 



SEBASTBS, Cuv. 



S. marinus, L. [Perca norwegicus.) Red Sea Perch. Redfish. Rosefish. 

 Snapper. Hemdurgan. 



Orange red, sometimes with vague dusky bars ; back elevated ; 

 belly profile nearly straight ; top of head evenly scaled ; concave 

 between two low interorbital ridges ; nasal spines present ; oper- 

 cular spines long and sharp ; eye very large ; mouth large, 

 oblique ; tip of lower jaw projecting ; pseudobranchs large ; 

 caudal fin narrow and forked ; scales weakly ctenoid ; vertebrae, 

 12 + 19; palatine teeth present. Dorsal rays, XV — 13; anal 

 rays, III, 7 ; lateral-line scales, 85 ; tubes, 40. North Atlan- 

 tic ; south to Cape Cod. • 



"A specimen of this northern species was taken off Sandy 

 Hook in August, 1865, and presented to the writer." — [C. C. A.] 



The following is a littoral variety or sub-species of the above 

 having similar range : 



Subsp. viviparus, Kroyer. 



Brownish red, mottled, with black blotch on opercle, and 

 brown spots on body ; pectorals a little longer, body smaller. 



Family COTTIDiE. 



Scnlpins. 



Head broad, depressed ; body tapering backward ; eyes high up 

 and close together ; a bony stay connects suborbital and preopercle ; 

 upper angle of preopercle with spines ; body never uniformly scaled ; 

 caudal rounded ; air-bladder usually wanting. 



HBMITRIPTBRUS, Cuv. 

 H. americanus, Gmel. [Scorpsena, Coitus, acadianus.) Sea Raven. 



Spinous dorsal deeply notched, anterior spines highest ; skin 

 rough with prickles, &c. ; teeth on vomer and palatines ; no slit 

 behind last gill ; head large, uneven ; mouth very wide ; pre- 

 opercle with blunt spines ; color reddish brown, marbled with 

 darker and variegated ; yellow below ; prickles on back tubercle- 



