1814 Bulletin ^7, United States National Museum. 



deeply incised; second anal spine longer and stronger than third or than 

 any of dorsal spines and longer than anal rays, its length about \ head; 

 caudal slightly lunate, head; pectorals reaching slightly beyond vent, 

 the lower rays not thickened, the fin If in head; ventral spine as long as 

 soft rays, 2 in head. Scales small, not regularly imbricated, smooth and 

 cycloid, except those on occiput and a few along lateral line on posterior 

 part of 'body; snout naked, maxillary and mandible only partly scaled; 

 soft rays of all the fins covered with series of small scales. Pale below, 

 dusky above, blotched with reddish and black; a blackish blotch on 

 opercle; fins dull reddish, irregularly marked with blackish, the caudal 

 mostly red, sometimes with a blackish terminal bar; cavity of mouth and 

 gill chamber and peritoneum jet-black. Two specimens, the largest 1 

 inches long. Gulf of California, in deep water. (Gilbert.) (smetms, liv- 

 ing in the gulf. ) 



Sebastichthy* sinensis, GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1890, 81, Gulf of California, at Alba- 

 tross Station 3015, Lat. 29 N., Long. 113 W., in 145 fathoms. (Type, No. 43085. 

 Coll. Gilbert.) 



2218. SEBASTODES ZACENTRUS (Gilbert). 



Head 2|; depth 3; caudal peduncle narrow, 3| in depth of body. D. 

 XIII, 14 or 15; A. Ill, 7 or 8; tubes of lateral line about 42, 70 vertical 

 series above lateral line. Body elongate. Mouth moderate, maxillary 

 reaching vertical from middle of pupil, 2 in head; lower jaw slightly 

 the longer, the tip with a small knob; teeth in very narrow bands. Eye 

 much longer than snout, 3 to 3% in head. .Interorbital space narrow, 

 somewhat concave, If in diameter of orbit; preorbital extremely narrow, 

 its least width f pupil. Eidges on head low, but sharp, the 'spines 

 rather strong; preocular ridge strong, triangular, ending in a strong 

 outwardly directed spine ; nasal, preocular, supraocular, tympanic, occipi- 

 tal, and sometimes nuchal spines present; 2 spines on shoulder, 2 on 

 opercle, and the usual 5 on preopercle, the latter directed backward; pre- 

 orbital lobate, but without spines. Gill rakers long, very slender, 

 diameter of orbit, 26 present on anterior limb of outer arch. Spinous dorsal 

 low, with strong spines, the longest 2^ to 2^ in head; notch between dor- 

 sals rather shallow, the shortest spine more than $ the longest ; soft rays 

 about equaling the spines ; caudal truncate or slightly emarginate, If in 

 head; second anal spine very long, usually longer and stronger than 

 third, curved, H to 1& in head, reaching to or beyond tips of soft rays in 

 declined fin ; ventrals reaching beyond vent, If in head ; pectorals reach- 

 ing nearly to front of anal, 1 in head, the fin not procurrent, the lower 

 half with greatly thickened rays. Scales large, rough ctenoid, those on 

 maxillary, mandible, and breast smoother. Five vaguely defined black 

 bars on back, 1 downward from nape and front of dorsal, 2 approximated 

 under spinous dorsal, 1 under middle of soft dorsal, and 1 on caudal 

 peduncle; those under dorsal encroach more or less on the fin; all but the 

 first continued below lateral line on middle of sides, the third interrupted 

 above lateral line; 2 black streaks backward from eye, the upper termi- 

 nating in a conspicuous black blotch on opercle, the lower ending on sub- 



