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Pectorals reaching beyond tips of ventrals, about to vent, their length 
two-thirds that of the head. 
DEG plo TAL LLG: 
Head densely covered with small scales; a series across the cheeks 
along the upper edge of the suborbital stay usually numbering 30 to 40, 
the increased number being due to the greater development of the ac- 
cessory scales. : 
Color rather light, bright orange-red, the. back olive shaded, the belly 
yellowish. Cheeks with red and yellowish shades. Head and body 
everywhere closely covered with small roundish pale spots. The spots 
above are light rose color; below are nearly white and larger. Four or 
five roundish rose-colored spots on the back, besides some mottlings of 
a similar shade. ‘The first spot, often obscure, under the fourth dorsal 
spine; the next near the lateral line under the eighth dorsal spine; the 
next close to the junction of the two parts of the dorsal; the fourth 
under the end of the soft dorsal; a fifth sometimes near the base of 
eighth dorsal spine. Opercular flap with a rosy spot. Fins light red- 
dish, shaded with olive, or nearly uniform. Dorsal speckled at base 
with light and dark. 
This beautiful species was first noticed by us in Santa Barbara Chan- 
nel, where a single example was obtained. It is abundant in the mar- 
kets of San Francisco, where it has been confounded with rosaceus on 
account of the similarity of the pink spots. The numerous stellate light: 
spots, however, distinguish it at sight. It is very closely related to 
rosaceus, however. 
The discovery of three species in the waters of California having the 
light spots supposed to distinguish S. rosaceus, invalidates the identifi- 
cation of that species with the similarly spotted S. oculatus of Chili. 
SEBASTICHTHYS RASTRELLIGER Sp. nov. 
Body rather oblong, deepest at the shoulders, slowly tapering back- 
ward to a rather deep caudal peduncle; head short, rather blunt and 
deep, the upper profile straight; mouth moderate, little oblique, the 
maxillary reaching to the posterior margin of the eye, the premaxilliary 
rather below the level of the eye; jaws equal, the lower convex, not 
produced at tip, and without symphyseal knob. 
Preorbital bone moderate, the width of its neck about two-fifths the 
diameter of the eye, its free margin sinuate, without spines. 
Hye moderate, anterior, its diameter about 44 in head. 
Ridges on head strong, but broad and depressed, ending in small 
spines. The following pairs present: Nasal, preocular, supraocular, tym- 
pane, and occipital, five in all. The occipital ridges are very long, equal- 
ing the diameter of the orbit; preopercular spines short and stout, the 
two upper subequal; opercular spines usually very broad and flat, their 
posterior edge sometimes serrated or bifid ; suprascapular spines strong; 
spines on interepercle and subopercle small, sometimes obsolete ; inter- 
