388 REVISION OF SEBASTINm—EIGENMANN AND BEESON. 



VOL. XVII. 



3. SEBASTOSOMUS MELANOPS (Girard). 



Sebastes melanops, Girard, Proc. Acad. Xat. 8ci. Pliila., 1854, viii, j). 135. — Girard, 

 U. S. Pac. R. E. Surv., 1858, x, p. 81 (Cape Flattery to Astoria). — Gunther, 

 II, p. 98, 1860 (copied).— SuCKLEY, U.S. Pac. E. E. Surv., 1860, xii, p. 354 

 (Puget Sound). — Ayres, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., fig. 66, 1862. — Lockington, 

 Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1876, p. 81 (Sail Francisco). 



Sebastichthys melanops, Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Pbila., 1862, p. 278. — Jor- 

 dan it JouY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, 1881, p. 8 (1882) (Ncali Bay, Wash- 

 ington, Monterey, San Francisco). — Jordax and Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., IV, 1881, p. 56 (1882) (Monterey northward).— Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., IV, 1881, p. 2.52 (1882) (Monterey, San Francisco, Puget Sound, Sitka); 

 and p. 269 (Alaskan peninsula to or beyond San Francisco). — .Jordan, Cat. 

 Fish. N. Am., p. 107, 1885 (California). 



Sebastodes melanops, Eigenmann andEiGENMANN, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., vi, 1892, 

 p. 354 (Monterey, Alaska). 



Sehastosomiis sirmilans, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Pliila., 1864, p. 147 (Cape 

 Flattery). 



Habitat. — Monterey to Alaska. 



We have been unable to recognize 8. simulan.s from tlie following- 

 note constituting' its sole description " * * * two species are appar- 

 ently confounded by Girard and tbe name Schasfcs melanops, one 

 witli 'a small spine upon the suprascapular bone, two others upon the 

 edge of the opercle,' and another from Cape Flattery with the lower 

 opercular spine as well as the supraorbital ridges obsolete, and the 

 forehead between the eyes perfectly arched." 



4. SEBASTOSOMUS CILIATUS (Tiles). 



Epincphelus ciliatus, Tiles, Mem. Acad. Sci., St. Petersburg, iv, p. 474, 1810. 

 Sebastichthys ciliatus, Jordan and .Jouy, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, 1881, p. 8 (1882) 



(Kodiak).— Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, 1881, p. 252 (1882) (Aleutians; 



Kodiak); and pp. 267 and 271 (Alaska); op. cit., 1883, p. 359 (Mary Island; 



Tolstoi Bay, Alaska; Nakat Harbor, Pt. Chester, Alaska). — .Jordan, Cat. 



Fish. N. Am., p. 107, 1885 (Alaska). 

 Sebastodes ciliatus, Jordan and Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N.Am., p. 658, 1883(Alaska). — 



Eigenmann and Eigenmann, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., 1892, p. 3.55 (Alaska). 

 Perca variabilis, Pallas, Zoogr. Eosso. Asiat., iii, p. 241, 1811. 

 Sebastes variabilis, Cuvier and Val., iv, p. 347, 1829. — Gunther, Cat. Jlsb. Brit. 



Mus., II, p. 99, 1860. 

 Habitat. — Alaska. 



VI. Genus SEBASTODES, Gill. 



Sebastodes, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1861, p. 165 {paucispinis) ; Eigen- 

 mann and Beeson, Amer. Nat., July, 1893 (redefined). 

 Type. — Sebastes paucispinis, Ayres. 



Dr. Gill rightly insisted that Sebastes pauGispinis, Ayres is generically 

 distinct from *S'. nigrocinetus, etc. Such a separation is, however, 

 admissible only if the heterogenous species, usually lumped under the 

 generic name Sebast,ichthys, are relegated to their respective genera. 

 The genus approaches Sehastomns through S. goodei. The genus Se- 

 hastomiis, on the other hand, closely approaches this genus through S. 



