Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 1807 



opercular flap with a rosy spot ; fins light reddish ; dorsal speckled at base 

 with light and dark; peritoneum white. Length 15 inches. Coast of 

 California, San Diego to San Francisco ; abundant in rather deep water, 

 especially southward; a brilliantly colored fish, one of the handsomest of 

 this showy group, (constellatus, starred.) 



Sebastichthys constellatua, JORDAN <fc GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 295, Santa 



Barbara Channel; San Francisco. (Type, No. 26963. Coll. Jordan & Gilbert.) 

 Hebastodes constellatus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 665, 1883. 



2209. SEBASTODES UMBIIOSUS (Jordan & Gilbert) . 



Head 2? ; depth 2*; eye large, 4 in head. D. XIII, 12; A. Ill, 6; lateral 

 line 40 (tubes). General form of Sebastodes constellatus. Mouth moderate, 

 oblique, lower jaw scarcely projecting, its tip fitting into the emarginate 

 tip of upper jaw; maxillary 2 in head, reaching posterior margin of pupil; 

 each jaw with small, smoothish scales. Cranial ridges rather sharp, lower 

 than in S. const cllat us \ preocular, supraocular, postocular, tympanic, and 

 parietal spines present; interorbital area concave, with 2 prominent 

 ridges, the region much broader than in S. constellatus, f width of eye; 

 supraocular ridge low, its spine smaller than tympanic spine; preocular 

 spine prominent; preopercular spines all acute; preorbital narrow, with 

 2 spines. Gill rakers rather long and slender, the longest about | eye. 

 Scales moderate, with many accessory scales. Dorsal rather low, deeply 

 emarginate; fourth spine equal to soft rays, about f head; soft dorsal 

 longer than high; second anal spine large, 2 in head; caudal slightly 

 emarginate; pectoral not reaching vent, 3f in body. Light orange, over- 

 laid everywhere with blackish, the latter color forming on lower part of 

 sides reticulations in fine pattern, the centers of scales being paler than 

 edges; sides of head with dusky shades; sides of back with some large 

 areas of blackish ; upper parts with 5 large rounded blotches of pink 

 washed with orange, these blotches arranged as in S. constellatus, but 

 larger, less sharply defined, and of a different hue; the second blotch with 

 a smaller one above it; a rosy spot on opercnlar flap; fins pale orange, 

 shaded with dusky. Length about 18 inches. Coast of California from 

 Point Concepcion to Coronado Islands; scarce, (umbroms, shady.) 



Sebastichthys umbrosus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 410, Santa Rosa 

 Island, off Santa Barbara, California. (Types, Nos. 31140 and 31141. Coll. Andrea 

 Larco.) 



Sebastodes cereus* EIGENMANN & EIGENMANN, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1890, 20, Coronado 

 Islands (San Diego market). (Coll. C. H. Eigenmann.) 



Sebastodes umbrosus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 950, 1883. 



* Sebastodn cereus is thus described : Head 2 to 2| ; depth 2|to 3. D. XIII, 12J to 13 ; A. 

 Ill, 6; lateral 1. (pores) 37 to 40. Shape of Sebastodes rosaceus. Jaws equal, maxillary 

 reaching past pupil, 2 or slightly less than 2 in head. Preorbital narrow, with 3 flat spines ; 

 eye Large, 3 to 3| in head, I?- in interorbital. Cranial ridges high and narrow, terminating 

 in sharp spines; preocular, supraocular, postocular. tympanic, and occipital spines; inter- 

 orbital concave, with a narrow median groove bordered by narrow ridges. Maxillary and 

 mandible entirely scaled. Highest dorsal spine 2i in head; second an.il spine little longer 

 than third, considerably shorter than rays, 2J in head. General color (in life) pink, 

 overlaid with bronze; top of head and back above lateral line bronze with 5 pink spots; 

 sides below lateral line finely vermiculated with bronze, which occupies more space than 

 ground color; pink spots of back placed as in related species, not surrounded by green or 

 purple; posterior part of lateral line pink; sides of head bronze (with pink showing 

 through) with an ill-defined streak backward from upper angle of eye; a light pink spot 



