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The rangeof this species is from Monterey Bay to Kodiak Island, it being most abundant northward. 

 It reaches a length of 18 to 20 inches. Bean (1882) has recorded it from Sitka and St. Paul. Kodiak. 



Those fish take the hook freely and afford some sport as game fish. At Sitka July 28 they were bitmg 

 well and many were caught from the wharf. Pieces of meat were used for bait and the fish were found in 

 water 6 to 18 feet deep. They usually take the hook rather quietly and at first make a pretty good 

 fight, but soon give up and allow themselves to be lifted out of the water without much struggle. 

 They are therefore a "boy's fish," which will not appeal strongly to the experienced angler, but they 

 are good food fish and bear a certain I'esemblance to the black bass ( Microptcrus). Color in life, olive- 

 brown, blotched with dirty red. 



73. Sebastodes ciliatus (Tilesius). 



Two specimens, 3.75 and 7.25 inches long, from station 4285 in Chignik Bay. These have 14 dorsal 

 spines each. In all other respects tliey agree perfectly with a large specimen i no. 28G5). 13 inches long, 

 taken with hook and line at Loring, July 7. We have also 3 specimens 12 to 13.5 inches long collected 



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Fig. 31.— Sebastoflcs rili.atus (Tilesius). 



hy the Albatross in 1897 at Redfish Bay and Killisnoo. The species is now known from Kodiak Island, 

 Aleutian Islands, Chignik Bay, Loring, Mary Island, Tolstoi Bay, Nakat Harbor, and Port Chester. 



As our 13-inch specimen is more than twice the size of those upon which current descriptions were 

 based, we give the following notes on it; Head 3.2 in length; depth 2.8; oblique rows of scales GO, plus 

 a few small scales on base of caudal fin; pores 50; eye 4 in head, equal ing snout ; interorbital width al)0ut 

 equaling eye; fifth dorsal spine 2.75 in head. 



Our examples have been compared with the 3 small specimens from Kodiak in the National 

 Museum and one 7.5 inches long collected by the Albatross at Kodiak Island, August 14, 1888. with 

 which they agree. 



Epinephelus ciliatus Tilesius, Mem. Ac. Sci. St.Petersb., r\', ISIO, 474, "Camtschaticus et Americanus": no defin- 

 ite locality given, probably from about Kodiak Island. 



Perca variabilis Pallas. Zoogr. Rosso-.Vsiat.. in, 241, l.^Il. Aleutianlslands. (Type in museum of Berlin: red exam- 

 ples ot .S. alfutianus included as the summer coloration.) 



