Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 1799 



stronger than third, and longer than soft rays, 2 to 2 in head; ventrals 

 usually not to vent; pectorals nearly to front of anal. Scales rough 

 ctenod on breast, maxillary, mandible, and snout. Bones of skull thin, 

 preocular, postocular, tympanic, and parietal, and sometimes nuchal spines 

 present, small, sharp, the ridges moderately developed; preocular ridge 

 prominent, the spine projecting above orbit; parietal ridges somewhat 

 curved, parietal bones not meeting; interorbital space wide, 3f in base of 

 skull, a little concave, nearly flat between the supraocular ridges; ventral 

 process of basisphenoid fairly developed ; mesethmoid processes small, com- 

 pressed, not elevated, base of skull strongly curved. Olivaceous above, 

 silvery below, overlaid below with light red; young with 3 or 4 brownish 

 black bars on side, becoming faint in older examples and sometimes also 

 in young; in these a dusky blotch on occiput, 1 including front of dorsal 

 and 1 on back of tail; dorsal sometimes with black spots, the spinous 

 portion often with a subniedian band of black, above which the incised 

 membrane is white; conspicuous olive-brown spots on caudal, usually 

 confined to base and upper lobe of fin ; peritoneum black ; buccal and gill 

 cavities white. Length 12 inches. Very abundant in deep waters off the 

 coast of southern California; Santa Barbara Islands, in from 44 to 155 

 fathoms. (Oilbert.) (saxum. rock; colo, I inhabit.) 



Sebastichthys saxicola, GILBEBT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1890, 78, Santa Barbara Islands. 



(Coll. Albatross.) 

 Sebastode* saxicola, CRAMER, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., aeries 2, v, 1895, 596, 60, lig. 12. 



2201. SEBASTODES CRAMER!, Jordan. 



. Head2|; depth 2^. D. XIII, 14; A. 111,7; P. 19^5 pores in lateral line, 

 48 (-j- 1 on caudal); transverse rows of scales 49. Body compressed, its 

 thickness 2 in its depth. Interorbital space flat, 4 in head; cranial 

 ridges low but evident, the parietal ridges thin. Preocular, supraocular, 

 postocular, tympanic, parietal and nuchal spines present, the last-named 

 spines being marked off from the parietal ridges only by depressions, 

 and the parietal spines not well marked. Orbit nearly circular, 3^ in 

 head. Snout about equal to interorbital width; preorbital with 2 tri- 

 angular lobes, but no distinct spines. Maxillary reaching a little beyond 

 vertical from middle of eye, 2 in head. Mandible scarcely projecting, 

 with a small symphyseal knob. The 3 upper preopercular spines nearly 

 equal, a little divergent, the lowest one obsolescent. Opercular spines 

 moderate, nearly equal. Gill rakers slender, 2 in orbit, 21 on horizontal 

 limb of first arch. Scales of medium size, those on opercles and cheeks 

 ctenoid, those on snout, preorbital, maxillary, and mandible scarcely 

 ctenoid, or cycloid ; accessory scales in moderate number. Dorsal spines 

 rather low, the fourth longest, 2f in head, the twelfth about as long ; 

 the membrane of spinous dorsal rather deeply incised; longest dorsal 

 rays about equal to longest spines; second anal spine about equal to 

 the third, but stronger, curved, 3 in head, about 1 in soft rays; caudal 

 ernarginate ; base of pectoral 2f in head, the 10 lower rays simple, the 

 middle rays longest, 3f in length of body, and reaching a little beyond 



