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Scha,<ites norteoicus De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 60, pi. 4, fig. 11, 1842, off 

 New York in deep water; Stokeb, Hist. Fish. Mass. 38, pi. YII. fig. 1, 

 1867. 



Scbastes marimts Goode & Bean. Bull. P^ssex Inst. XI, 14. 1879; Jordan & 

 Gilbert. Bull. 16. U. S. Nat. Mus. 651, 1883; Goode & Bean, Oceanic 

 Ichth. 260, pi. LXIX, fig. 248. 1896; H. M. Smith, Bull. TJ. S. F- C. 

 1897, 105, 1898; Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 1760, 

 1808, pi. CCLXVIII, fig. 653, 1900. 



The depth of the body is contained two and four fifths times 

 in tlie length of the body which is three times the length of the 

 head. Body ovate; back elevated, the ventral outline straight- 

 ish; top of head evenly scaled; interorbital space with two low 

 ridges, between which it is concave; nasal spines present; 

 cranial ridges moderate, rather low and sharp; preocular, supra- 

 ocular, postocular, tympanic, and occipital ridges present, the 

 latter with tips abruptly divergent; suprascapular spines very 

 sharp and prominent; opercular spines long and sharp; sub- 

 opercular spine prominent; preopercular spines slender and 

 sharp, the second longest; suborbital stay not reaching pre- 

 opercle; preorbitnl narrow, with two spines. Eye exceedingly 

 large, three in head, more than twice as wide as interorbital 

 space. Mouth very large, oblique; maxillary very broad, reach- 

 ing middle of eye, its length two and one third in head; pre- 

 maxillarics on level of middle of pupil; tip of lower jaw much 

 projecting, with a conspicuous, pointed symphyseal knob; mand- 

 ible and maxillary scaly; pseudobranchiae very large; gill rakers 

 long, stiff and strong. Dorsal spines sharp, the longest about as 

 long MS eye; the fin deeply emarginate; soft rays not very high, 

 higher than the spines; caudal narrow, moderately forked; anal 

 spines moderate, graduated; the second a little shorter than eye; 

 pectoral rather long, reaching vent, its base narrow; ventral 

 reaching vent. Scales small, irregular, not strongly ctenoid. 

 I'"iil>ncuiii l.i-ovvnish. 1). XY-Vi; A. Ill, 7; Lat. 1. 40 (tubes); 

 scales iibont 8."). 



Orange-red, nearly uniform, sometimes a dusky opercular 



^''"'''"- =""' =''<"" ''^' vi>^"<' <lusky bars on back. Peritoneum f 

 brownish. 



The roselisl. is abundant at the hundred fathoms line off the J 

 souii. coast of New England, and has been found in depths of ' 



