FISHES SCORPAENIDAE SBBASTES FASCIATUS. 



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The second dorsal, or rather the soft portion of the dorsal fin, is scarcely higher than the 

 first or spinous portion. The posterior margin of the caudal is sub-concave, a feature which the 

 figure fails to represent. The anterior spine of the anal is more developed than in S. melanops, 

 though the shortest of the three which precede the articulated rays of that fin ; the tips of the 

 posterior soft rays extend somewhat further back than those of the dorsal, but do not reach the 

 base or insertion of the caudal. The insertion of the ventrals is situated immediately posterior 

 to the base pectorals ; the pectorals, themselves, being elongated, their tips extending beyond 

 those of the ventrals, and reaching a vertical line which would fall between the two portions of 

 the dorsal. 



Br. VII : VII ; D XIII, 13 ; A III, 7 ; C 5, 1, 5, 5, 1, 6 ; V I, 5 ; P 17. 



The scales which cover the body are of medium size, those upon the head, cheeks, opercular 

 apparatus, and throat being quite small. The accessory scales are very numerous. The course 

 of the lateral line is parallel to the outline of the back. The normal scales are deeper than long ; 

 the accessory ones are lanceolated and much longer than deep. 



The color is of a uniform reddish or crimson tint, lighter beneath than above. The upper 

 region of the opercle exhibits a large elongated spot of a much deeper hue. 



References to the figures. PLATE XXI, fig. 1, represents Sebastes rosaceus, somewhat reduced. 

 in size. Fig. 2 exhibits a scale from the dorsal region. Fig. 3, a scale from the lateral line. 

 Fig. 4, a scale from the middle of abdomen. Figs. 5 and 6 being accessory scales. 



Figs. 2 6 are magnified. 



List of specimens. 



2. SEBASTES FASCIATUS, Grd. 

 PLATE XXII. 



SPEC. CHAR. Upper surface of head provided with large spinous ridges. Posterior extremity of maxillary extending 

 beyond the pupil. Origin of dorsal fin situated in advance of the base of the pectorals. Ground color greenish yellow or 

 sulphur yellow, clouded with dark patches, spotted with whitish ; a dorsal fascicle of the ground color extends from the third 

 or fourth dorsal spine to the base of the caudal. 



SYN. Sebastes faciatus, GRD. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. VII, 1854, 146. 



Sebastes nebulosus, AYRES, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sc. I, 1854, 5 ; &, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. V, 1854, 96. 



The body, anteriorly, is very stout and deep, the head being more rounded, with its upper 

 surface, from the occiput to th snout, more inclined than in the preceding species. The total 

 length of the fish here described and figured is about eleven inches, of which the head forms 

 more than the third. The greatest depth is equal to the length of the head. The upper surface 

 of the latter exhibits spiny ridges, or processes, very acute posteriorly : one prenasal pair, two 

 supra-orbital pairs, and an occipital one, by far the most elongated. Five triangular spines 



