1816 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



into blotches, 2 of these bands below lateral line, becoming confluent 

 behind; a distinct pale band following course of lateral line; upper fins 

 blotched with olive, lower pale red; head olive and blotched above, pale 

 red below; chin black; peritoneum dusky. Length 12 inches. Coast of 

 California, from San Diego to San Francisco ; not rare in rather deep water. 

 This species bears considerable resemblance to Sebastodcs proriycr. (clon- 

 gatus, elongated.) 

 Sebastes elongatus, AYRES, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., n, 1859, 26, fig. 9, San Francisco. (Coll. 



Dr.W. O. Ayres.) 

 Sebastodes elongatus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis,. 669, 1883; CRAMER, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., 



series 2, v, 1895, 600, pi. 64, fig. 22, and pi. 70, fig. 40. 



2220. SEBASTODES LEVIS (Eigemnann & Eigemnann). 



Head 2f ; depth 3 ; eye If in snout, 5 in head, 1 in interorbital, which 

 is very slightly convex. D. XIII, 13i; A. Ill, 7|; lateral line 50. Head 

 very large, pointed, its upper and lower outlines equally inclined. Month 

 large, lower jaw projecting and entering profile; a well-developed sym- 

 physeal knob. Maxillary reaching to below posterior margin of pupil, 

 greatly dilated behind, its Avidth about equal to diameter of eye. .Sub- 

 orbital stay weak ; opercular spines strong, pointed. Gill rakers all short, 

 about twice as high as wide. Scales of head all cycloid, each scale with 

 numerous small accessory scales. Mandible, maxillary, and tip of snout 

 naked; preorbital with scattered patches of scales; scales of body weakly 

 ctenoid. Highest dorsal spine little less than \ length of head, the 

 membranes very deeply incised, those of first 3 spines meeting the suc- 

 ceeding ones 011 their basal fifth, the incisions becoming gradually shal- 

 lower backward, the tenth membrane meeting the eleventh spine on its 

 upper third ; dorsal rays considerably lower than the highest spine ; cau- 

 dal ernarginate; second anal spine greatly thickened, 4 in head; ventrals 

 about 2 in head ; pectorals 1| . Skull long, bones thick, spongy ; preocular, 

 postocular, tympanic, parietal, and sometimes supraocular spines present, 

 the ridges moderately developed; parietal bones meeting; interorbital 

 space a little more than 4 in base of skull, concave, and on each side within 

 the supraorbital ridges, higher in center, with a small median ridge and 

 2 others over mucous canals ; ventral process of basispheiioid moderately 

 developed; inesethinoid processes compressed, their upper surfaces de- 

 pressed, base of skull straight. Pink, with 4 interrupted crossbars of 

 black, the first below origin of dorsal, second below sixth dorsal spine, 

 third below tenth spine, fourth below seventh dorsal ray ; back sometimes 

 dusky; 1 specimen having a large black blotch on anterior part of soft 

 dorsal; peritoneum white. (Eigenmann & Eigenmann.) Length 2 to 3 

 feet; one of the largest specimens weighing 29 pounds. Coast of Cali- 

 fornia, from San Diego to Monterey; not rare in deep water; occasionally 

 seen in the markets of Los Angeles, (levis, capricious or fantastic, the 

 root meaning light.) 



Sebastichthys levis, EIGENMANN & EIGENMANN, Notes from the San Diego Biol. Laboratory, 

 i, 6, 1889, San Diego (Type, No. 41904. Coll. Eigenmann) ; EIGENMANN & EIGENMANN, 

 West American Scientist 1889, 129. 



Sebastodes levis, CRAMER, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., series 2, v, 1895, 601, pi. 64. fig. 24. 



