ADDITIONS TO FAUNA OF SAN DIEGO. 1 7 



terior part of membrane flesh colored, posterior half of 

 membrane orange. Second dorsal and caudal orange. 

 The remaining fins with the ravs flesh colored, the mem- 

 branes orange. Belly salmon. Sides and back lemon 

 yellow mottled with gray. Lateral line flesh color. 

 Lower part of head rose pink, 3 lemon yellow bars on 

 sides of head. A band of madder brown between eves, 

 one across nape and one across tip of snout; regions be- 

 tween them madder brown mottled with orange. Mem- 

 branes between the jaws and between the maxillaries 

 black. 



15. Sebastodes melanostomus sp. nov. 



One specimen .54 m. off Point Loma. November 14, 

 1889, 100 fathoms. 



Closely related to 5. ruber, having smooth cranial ridges 

 and black peritoneum. 



Head 3X in the total length; depth .19 m.; D. XIII, 

 I3>^; A. Ill, 7>^; lat. 1. 43. 



Short and deep; head heavy; mouth large, lower jaw 

 projecting, maxillary reaching to below posterior border 

 of pupil. Eve very large, orbit i in snout, 3! in head. Inter- 

 orbital space slightly depressed, 4^ in the head. Preor- 

 bital narrow, 3 in the orbit, with an anterior simple, and 

 a posterior many-pointed spine. Cranial spines low but 

 distinct, smooth, and covered with skin to their tip. The 

 three ocular, the t^'mpanic and occipital spines present. 

 Opercular and preopercular spines long, simple. Maxil- 

 lary, mandible, preorbital and snout scaly. Scales of the 

 opercle rather large. Scales of the sides very large, with 

 but few accessory ones. Gill-rakes slender, 7 of an orbital 

 diameter long. 



Dorsal spines all very low, the 3d and 4th the highest, 



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