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BULLETIN op THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



nearest rays; ventrals rather narrow, acute, length 1.6 in head, tips not reaching vent by quite a percep- 

 tible distance; pectorals ratlier broad, acute, 1.25 in head, tips reaching nearly to vent, lower 9 rays 

 very slightly thickened, not liranched, upper rays branched; caudal 1.55 in head, apparently truncate; 

 gill cavity somewhat dusky; gillrakers 11 +25, rather long and slender, 1.9 in eye; peritoneum black. 

 Color in alcohol, light yellowish-ljrown above, somewhat silvery below; occiput, line along base of 

 dorsal, and spot on opercle dusky: dorsal more or less dusky, the edge of the membrane blackish. 



77. Sebastodes pinnig'er (Gill). Orun.;/e. Roclcfish. 



One specimen 5 inclies long from station 4220 in Admiralty Inlet, .July 1. It is a female with well 

 advanced eggs. 



Head 3.25 in l)ody; deplli 3; eye 3.5 in head; maxillary 2.1; dorsal xiii, 14; anal in, 7; scales 45. 



A specimen 4.5 inches long from station 4193. Dorsal xiii. 14; head 3; eye 3; gillrakers 12 + 26, 

 long and slender. 



Another example 3.5 inches long from station 4205. 



This species reaches a length of 2 feet or more and ranges from San Diego to Puget Sound. 



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Fig. 3.5.— Scljustodes pinniger (Gill). 

 78. Sebastodes aleutianus Jordan & Evermann. (PI. xvi.) 

 This species is certainly known only from the X\\<<- locality, Shelikof Strait, off Kodiak Island. 



79. Sebastodes saxicola (Gilbert). 



Two specimens 2.5 and 2.75 inches long seined at Metlakahtla, and 3 others, 2.5, 4.25, and 6 inches, 

 dredged at station 4228 (Naha Bay). 



Head 3; eyes 2.75; .snout 4; interorbital 4; pores 43; scales about 50; dorsal xm, 14; anal iii, 7; 

 gillrakers 11+23, long and slender, 2 in eye. 



An example 9 inches long from statiim 3129, off the coast of central California, March 13, 1890, 

 has the head 2.75; snout 4.25; depth 3.2; gillrakers 10+23, 2.1 in eye; eye 3.2. Longest dorsal spine 

 2.5 in head. 



Another example (paper tag no. 102), from Barclay Sound, had the gillrakers 9+22, long and 

 slender, 2.2 in eye. 



We have compared our specimens with (jthers in the National Museum and find tliem identical. 



This fish ranges from southern California to southeast Alaska in waters of moderate depth. It 

 reaches a foot in length. 



