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Head 2.9; depth 2.9; eye 4; snout 4.1; maxillary 2; mandible 1.9; interorbital 5.25; dorsal xiii, 

 12; anal iii, 6; gillrakers S+ 19, rather stout, longest 2.75 in eye; scales 57, pores 48; longest dorsal 

 spine 1.8 in head; longest dor^al rays 2,1 in head. In other specimens the gillrakers were 10+ 21 or 

 10+19. 



Body short, stout, and deep; mouth slightly oMique, lower jaw not projecting, maxillary nearly 

 reaching posterior border of orliit; mandible and maxillary not scaled; nasal , preocular, postocidar, tym- 

 panic and parietal spines present; nuchal, coronal, and supraocular spines absent; preorbital with 2 

 broad, low points, not spine-like. 



This species is known to range from Monterey to Sitka in rather deep water, being abundant north- 

 ward. It reaches a length of about 2 feet. It was also recorded from Sitka by Bean (1882) as 

 iSebastichthys waliger. 



89. Sebastodes nebtilosus ( AjTes). 



A small specimen (no. 112), 2.5 inches long, from station 4204. off Fort Rupert. We have also 2 

 others, 11 and 12 inches long, taken by Mr. H. C. Fassett at Klawak in 1905. Bean (1884) records it 

 from Mary Island. The following measurements are taken from the small example from station 4204 ; 



Head 2.75; depth 3.G; eye 2.9; dorsal xiii, 13; anal tn, 6; scales 45 to 47, about 42 pores; gill- 

 rakers long and slender; nasal, preocular. postocular, tjonpanic, and parietal spines present. The color, 

 however, does not exactly agree with that given for this species. Our specimen in alcohol is clayey 

 white, mottled with large, in-egular Ijrown blotches, about 4 along side above lateral line, 2 or 3 

 immediately below it, and 3 along lower part nf side; .spinous and soft dorsals similarly mottled. 



90. Sebastodes nigrocinctus (Ajtcs). Black-banded RoclJ'f^Ji. 



Two specimens, 13 and 14 inches lung, taken Ijy Mr. H. C. Fassett at Hawak in 1905, and one 

 specimen (no. 2863), 12 inches long, taken by Mr. Chamberlain on hook and line at Kaha Bay, Loring, 

 July 7, 1903, where he states that the species is common. This specimen gives the following meas- 

 urements: 



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Fig. 39. — Sebastodes uigrocinctus (.Vyres). 



Head 2.G5; depth 2.67; eye 4; dorsal xiii, 14; anal iii, 7; scales 52; pores 44; snout 4.5; gillrakers 

 9 + 21, stiff, rough, clavate, the longest 3.5 in eye, the terminal ones of each arm reduced to tubercles. 

 It differs from tj^ical examples in the following respects: There is a small supraocular spine on the 

 left side; the mandible is pretty well covered with very minute, thin cycloid scales; the nuchal spines 

 coalesce with the parietal. 



Color in life: Body blood red; cheek with a black stripe downward from front of eye to lower edge 

 of cheek; another from eye backward and downward to branchiostegals; a large black blotch on upper 



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