642 Pareioplite, or Mailed-cheek Fishes 
spots. Sebastichthys chrysomelas is mottled black and yellow. 
Sebastichthys carnatus is flesh-color and green. Sebastichthys 
rastrelliger is a small, blackish-green species looking like Sebas- 
todes atrovirens, but with short gill-rakers. Sebastichthys hop- 
kinst and Sebastichthys gilberti are small species allied to it. 
The treefish, Sebastichthys serriceps, has very high spines on the 
head, and the olive body is crowned by broad black bands. 
Still more striking is the black-banded rockfish, Sebastichthys 
Fic. 538.—Sebastichthys serriceps Jordan & Gilbert. Monterey, Cal. 
nigrofasciatus, with very rough head and bright red body with 
broad cross-bands of black. 
Of the Japanese species the commonest, Sebastodes inermis, 
the Mebaru, much resembles Sebastodes flavidus. Sebastodes 
fuscescens looks like Sebastodes melanops, as does also Sebastodes 
taczanowskit, Sebastodes matsubare and S. flammeus and S. 
iracundus, bright-red off-shore species, run close to Sebastodes 
aleutianus. Sebastichthys pachycephalus suggests Sebastichthys 
chrysomelas. Sebastodes steindachneri and S. itinus are brighter- 
colored allies of Sebastodes ovalis and Sebastodes scythropus and 
Sebastodes joyneri represent Sebastodes proriger. Sebastichthys 
trivittatus, green, striped with bright golden, bears some resem- 
blance to Sebastichthys maliger. Sebastichthys elegans, Sebastich- 
thys oblongus, and Sebastichthys mitsukurti, dwarf species, pro- 
fusely spotted, have no analogues among the American forms. 
Sebastodes glaucus of the Kurile Islands has 14 dorsal spines 
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