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AGONIDZE. 
35. Peristedium miniatum, Goode. 
Peristedium miniatum, GOODE, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. iii, 1880, p. 349. 
Specimens were obtained from the following localities: 
Fathoms. 
Noweol oor SUALIOW CO9 a. Sete ep somone ccis se Same ecinis os perinae Seen cee ee 192 
Noy cGUS0F Staton 87d ws cts hs rae ntss tice tele estan sie es ene tales ee ae eee 115 
Nor 26083" stabionve/Oeeece. --2 se Sece ah ac ian eee eae eee Ck enc eee aetna 120 
As has already been stated, adults and young were found, the former 
full of nearly ripe eggs. 
36. Asphidophoroides monopterygius (Bloch) Valenciennes. 
In 1874 a head of an individual of this species was dredged up on the 
“ Pecten Ground” off Watch Hill, R. I. This is the sole‘instance of its 
capture south of Cape Cod, though there can be little doubt that it is 
of frequent occurrence in the districts recently explored by the Commis- 
sion. 
37. Sebastes marinus, Linnieus. 
Numerous small individuals of this species were taken in nearly every 
haul of the trawl-net down to the depth of 15d fathoms. 
38. Setarches parmatus, new species. 
A single specimen, No. 28084, was obtained at locality 876, in 120 
120 fathoms. The young fish, 52™™ long, was taken in company with 
numerous young specimens of Sebastes marinus, from which it differs in 
many very striking respects. 
It appears to belong to the type described by Johnson under the 
name Setarches.* 
It is, however, much stouter and higher than the other known species 
of this genus, Setarches Giintheri, trom which, too, it differs in having 10 
instead of 11 spines in the first dorsal, and 6 instead of 5 rays in the 
ventrals. -The height of the body (38) is three-eighths of its standard 
length. The length of the head (45) is nine-twentieths of the same. 
The diameter of the eye (12) is contained less than four times in the 
length of the head (45). The scales are small, cycloid, each with sev- 
eral concentric furrows. 
The specimen is so young, and mutilated withal, that it seems scarcely 
desirable to prepare an elaborate specific diagnosis. I append, however, 
a table of measurements, from which the other proportions of the body 
may readily be deduced, hoping soon to secure materials for a better de- 
seription. Setarches parmatus may readily be distinguished from Sebastes 
marinus by its more generous proportions, as well as by the generic char- 
acters already mentioned. The height of the body is three-eighths of 
*Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1862, p. 177; Setarches Giintheri, n. s. Madeira, p. 177, pl. 
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