1786 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



Sebastichthys entomelas, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 142, Monterey, 



California. (Type, No. 27044. Coll. Jordan & Gilbert.) 

 Sebastodes entomelas, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 659, 1883; CRAMER, Proc. Cal. Ac. 



Sci., series 2, V, 1895, 293, pi. 58, fig. 5. 



2187. SEBASTODES RUFUS, Eigenmann & Eigenmann. 



Head 3; depth 3. D. XIII, 14|; A. Ill, 8; 56 pores in lateral line. 

 Body compressed, elongate; profile straight, less steep than in Sebastodes 

 ovalis, snout broader. Eye moderate, orbit slightly longer than snout, 3 

 to 4 in head. Maxillary reaching to middle or little beyond middle of eye ; 

 mandible with a prominent symphyseal knob. Interorbital slightly con- 

 vex, as wide as orbit in smaller specimen, wider in the larger; preocular, 

 supraocular, postocular, tympanic, and parietal spines present; the pari- 

 etal ridges higher, narrower, more diverging and more conspicuous than 

 in S. ovalis; preocular PS fully developed as in S. avails; preorbital very 

 narrow, about 4 in orbit, with 2 small backward-directed spines; preoper- 

 cular spines long and slender, all of them longer and stronger than S. ovalis, 

 the lower 2 very long, the second reaching beyond base of third, not nearly 

 reaching base of third in S. ovalis. Head entirely covered with moderate- 

 sized scales, those of body larger. Outlines of spinous dorsal little arched, 

 highest spine slightly more than 3 in head, the highest ray about equal 

 to highest spine; caudal emarginate; anal spines graduated, second equal 

 to highest dorsal spine. Rufous, variously marked with brown ; lateral 

 line rufous; upper angle of opercle, a line from eye downward and back- 

 ward to upper half of pectoral, another parallel to it from upper angle of 

 maxillary backward, and tips of jaws dark brown; these markings con- 

 spicuous; head otherwise rufous; axil black; margin of spinous dorsal 

 and greater part of membranes of soft dorsal black ; base of dorsal rufous, 

 spotted with darker; caudal dusky; membranes of the remaining fins 

 chiefly black, the rays rufous; peritoneum jet-black. Length about 22 

 inches. San Diego; Cortez Banks; not seen by us. (Eigenmann & Eigen- 

 mann.) (rufus, red.) 



Sebastodes rufus, EIGENMANN & EIGENMANN, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1890, 13, Point Loma; 

 Cortez Banks. (Coll. C. H. Eigenmann.) 



2188. SEBASTODES MACDONALDI (Eigenmann & Beeson). 



Head 3 in total length; depth 3f. D. XIII, 13$; A. Ill, 7*. Elongate; 

 head pointed ; eye small, orbit If in snout, 4f in head, 1 J in interorbital ; 

 lower jaw projecting; maxillary reaching to below posterior margin of 

 eye, 2 in head. Interorbital slightly convex, without ridges ; cranial ridges 

 low, obscure, all terminating in short spines; preocular, supraocular, 

 postocular, tympanic and parietal spines present; preorbital f diameter 

 of orbit, with 3 retrorse spines below, the posterior smallest; a retrorse 

 spine just below orbit; opercular spines simple and strong. Mandible, 

 maxillaries, suborbitals, and entire snout scaled; scales of head small, 

 ctenoid, those of body larger. Spinous dorsal regularly arched, fourth 

 and fifth spines highest, 3 in head, highest ray 3f in head; anal spines 

 graduated, the second considerably stronger but shorter than third, the 



