DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF SEBASTODES. 



BY CARL H. AND ROSA S. EIGENMANN. 



Sebastodes serranoides. 



Sebastichthvs jiavidus E. & E. Notes from San Diego 

 Biol. Lab. i, 5, 1889. (Cortes Banks.) 



Types: No. 993, one specimen .24 m., Cortes Banks. 

 No. 402, one specimen .47 m., San Francisco. 

 No. 403, one specimen .36 m., San Francisco. 

 No. 404, one specimen ,36 m., San Francisco. 

 Three specimens .38-. 49 m., San Francisco. 



On May 16, 1890, we collected a large number of 

 specimens of Sebastodes. Among these were specimens 

 of what we previously supposed to be S .Jiavidiis. There 

 were also other specimens identifiable with current de- 

 scriptions of S . faridiis which were however quite differ- 

 ent from the others. The deeper ones with an elevated 

 spinous dorsal and deep notch between the dorsals are 

 evidently to be referred to the species figured by Ayres* 

 as S . flavidiis. The others represent an apparently un- 

 described species. It is frequently brought into the San 

 Diego market, while S . jlavidns is rare at that point. 

 In general shape and color it greatly resembles Serraniis 

 clathratiis, from which it is not distinguished by the fisher- 

 men. 



Head 3 ; depth 3)^-3 >^ ; D. xiii, 15-16; A.iii,9. Lat. 

 1. 60 (pores). 



Elongate slender, the dorsal profile but Httle more 

 arched than the ventral. Head compressed, the anterior 

 profile almost straight. Snout long, pointed; the lower 

 jaw projecting, its tip entering the profile. 



Cranial ridges less developed than in any other species, 



* Proc. Cal Acad. Nat. Sci. ii, 219, fig. 64, 1862. 

 2d See., Vol. HI. May 28, 1890. 



