82 NEW FISHES FEOM PACIFIC COAST — GILBERT. 



ular, tympanic, and occipital spines present j mandible partly scaled; 

 peritoneum, buccal, and gill cavities black ; anal spines short, grad- 

 uated. 



Specific Description : Body short and deep, heavy anteriorly, with 

 slender caudal peduncle; mouth large, maxillary reaching beyond 

 pupil, 2| in head, its greatest width less than one-third its greatest 

 length ; jaws about equal, the lower mostly included within the upper, 

 but the tip fitting into a notch between intermaxillaries, and with a 

 somewhat projecting syniphyseal knob ; teeth present on vomer and 

 in a long slender patch on palatines ; eye very large, 2^ to 3 in head ; 

 snout 4§ to 5 in head; interorbital space rather narrow, concave, with 

 a pair of low ridges; its width C in head. 



Kasal spines present, preocular spines strong, triangular, directed 

 outwards; supraocular ridges low, but evident, diverging posteriorly, 

 ending in strong spines; tympanic and occipital spines also strong; 

 upper three preopercular spines equal in length, placed close, and 

 usually nearly parallel, directed backwards. The lower two small, 

 directed downwards and backwards. Two opercular, two suprascapu- 

 lar, and two or three strong preorbital spines present. 



Gill-rakers slender, the longest one-fifth orbit, twenty-one on ante- 

 rior limb of outer arch. 



Spines rather high and strong, the dorsal moderately notched, the 

 highest spine 2^ in head, about equal to soft rays, the lowest nearly 

 one-half its height; membranes not deeply incised ; second anal spine 

 longer and stronger than third or than any of dorsal spines and longer 

 than anal rays ; its length about ^ head. 



Caudal slightly lunate, one-half head; pectorals reaching slightly 

 beyond vent, the lower rays not thickened, the fin If in head; ventral 

 spine as long as soft rays, 2:^ in head. 



Scales small, uot regularly imbricated, smooth and cycloid, except 

 those on occiput and a few along lateral line on posterior part of body ; 

 snout naked, maxillary and mandible only partly scaled : soft rays of 

 all the fins covered with series of small scales. 



Head 2J in length ; depth 3 D. XIII, 12 ; A. Ill, 5 Lat. 1. (tubes) 40 

 to 45. 



Color: Pale below, dusky above, blotched with reddish and black ; 

 a blackish blotch on opercle ; fins dull reddish, irregularly marked 

 with blackish, the caudal mostly red, sometimes with a blackish termi 

 nal bar ; cavity of mouth and gill-chamber and peritoneum jet-black. 



Two specimens, the largest 7 inches long, from Station 3015, in 145 

 fathoms. 



42. Scorpaena (Sebastoplus) sierra sp. nov. 



Body of moderate depth, the snout sharp, the caudal peduncle slen- 

 der, wedge-shaped. 



Head 2} in length ; depth 3. D. XII-10; A. Ill, 5, Lat. 1. 25 (tubes). 

 Least depth of caudal peduncle less than one-fifth head. 



