28(i BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



Our collection contains two specimens — tlie type, no. 57821, U. S. National Museum (field no. 

 2872i, 0.25 inches long, from Albatross station 4234 in Yes Bay, Alaska; and the cotype. no. 289.3 mo. 

 5228, Bureau of Fisheries!, 3.5 inches long, from Albatross stalion 4246, Kasaan Bay, Alaska. 



This species is named in honor of the late Lieut. Franklin Swift, U. S. Navy, the efficient com- 

 mander of the Albatross during the Alaska investigations in lfl03. 



81. Sebastodes diploproa (dilbert). 



The collection contains 2 small specimens (no. 2784 and 27851. 3.25 and 3.5 inches long, dredged 

 at station 4191, in Nanaimo Harbor, June 19. We have also examined a specimen (no. lOli G.75 inches 

 long, collected by the Albatross in 1890, probalily off the California coast. 



No. 2784 in life was light red. brownish on back, coppery (m head: belly lielow lateral line aliruptly 

 silvery, scarcely washed with red; back with 5 obscure dull orange saddles, very diffuse, extending 

 below lateral line, the one below soft dorsal liroadest; head all red, the opercle with many dark dots; 

 dorsal red, slightly orange .shaded, pinkish at tips, the soft dorsal with a black cross-blotch about half- 

 way up from behind third to sixth soft ray; black on memljranes, not on rays; caudal faint orange, 

 base reddish, tips pale; anal like soft dor.sal. the black blotch fainter, larger, from behind second spine 

 to third soft ray; pectoral and ventral pinkish-red; inside of mouth red; gill-cavity white; peritoneum 

 black. 



Head 2.75 in length; depth 3.1; eye 3.3 in head; snout 5.1; maxillary 2.25; mandil.ile 1.9; inter- 

 orbital 1.5 in eye, 4.5 in head; dorsal .xiii, 12; anal iii, 8; pores in lateral line 34 to 41. Nasal, pre- 

 ocular. postocular, tympanic, and parietal spines present, all well developed; preorbital with 2 blunt 

 diverging spines; 2 small humeral spines; gillrakers 114-23, long and slender, 2 in eye. 



No. 2785 has more black on second dorsal, less on anal; membranes of spinous dorsal dusky edged; 

 a little dusky on upper edge of opercle; general color light brick red, the belly abruptly silvery. 



These specimens have been compared with the t>-pes in the National Museum, with which they 

 arc found to agree. 



The species reaches a length of a foot or less, and occiU"s <:)n ova- Pacific coast from the Coronado 

 Islands northward to Nanaimo. 



82. Sebastodes introniger iCnlbert). 



One small specimen 2.75 inches long, dredged at station 4243, in Kasaan Bay, agrees in most respects 

 with the original description of this species. 



Head 2.75; eye, 2.75; dorsal xili, 14; anal iii, 0; scales about 45, 31 pores; gillrakers 8-|-20, rather 

 long and slender. 2 in eye. 



Four specimens, 3.85 to 4.75 inches long from station 4223, in Boca de Quadra. These do not show 

 the black gill-cavity and mouth which introniger is said to have. We have one other specimen, no. 

 1088, 20 inches long, dredged at station 3324, Bering Sea, August, 1890. The species has also been 

 recorded from Bering Sea at stations 3311, 3317, 3324, and 3331 (Gilbert 1895). The known range of 

 this fish is from Santa Barliara to Bering Sea, in waters of moderate depth. 



83. Sebastodes ruberrimus Cramer. Red Rock Cod: Red Roekjish. (PI. XLii.) 



The collection inntains 1 large specimen (no. 28fi8) 12 inches long from Boca de Quadra, where 

 it was caught on hook and line, July 5, at a consideralile depth, ^\^len lirought to the surface its stomach 

 had been thrown out into its mouth. This specimen agrees with current descriptions. (The colored 

 painting was made from life, from an example about 2 feet long, taken at Loring, where the species 

 is not uncommon.) 



Gillrakers 9-|-lS, .short, rough, ilavate, 3 in eye, fii-st 5 on short arm and last 7 on long arm mere 

 tubercles. Head 2.(); depth 2.(1; eye 4.5; dorsal xni. 15; anal iii, 7; scales 50, pores 44; maxillary 2.1; 

 mandilile l.GG. 



We have also 3 specimens 18. 19. and 14 inclies long, collected respectively at Hunter Bay. Mary 

 Island, and Mink Arm. and a specimen 19 inches long collected in Union Bay. The species has been 

 recorded l)y Bean (1882), as Sebastichthys ruber, from off Point Bingham; Jacobi Island; Gulf of Alaska; 

 and Kygani Strait. 



