1820 Bulletin //, United States National Museum. 



fins chiefly olivaceous, spotted with darker; the brightness of the olive 

 and greenish shades is quite variable, but the species is always without 

 definite markings and without bright red ; peritoneum brownish. Length 

 15 inches. Coast of California, from San Diego to San Francisco ; abundant 

 southward. A strongly marked species, known at once by its short gill 

 rakers, (rastrellum, diminutive of rastrum, a rake ; gero, I bear ; from the 

 small gill rakers.) 



Sebastichthys rastrelliger, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 296, Monterey. 



(Type, No. 27033. Coll. Jordan & Gilbert.) 

 Sebastodes rastrelliger, JORDAN <fc GILBERT, Synopsis, 671, 1883 ; CRAMER, Troc. Cal. Ac. 



Sci., series 2, V, 1895, 602, pis. 65 and 70, figs. 27 and 41. 



2224. SEBASTODES CAURINU8 (Richardson;. 



Head 2f ; depth 2f ; eye and snout equal, 2 in maxillary, 4f in head. D. 

 XIII, 12 to 14; A. Ill, 6 or 7; P. 17 to 19; scales 41 to 44 (pores); trans- 

 verse rows of scales 42 to 47. Body stout, compressed, the back elevated. 

 Head strongly compressed; the dorsal profile nearly straight; interorbital 

 space nearly flat between the moderately elevated supraocular ridges, 

 5 to 5| in head; nasal, preocular, postocular, tympanic, and parietal 

 spines present, sharp, the ridges moderate; maxillary 2 in head, its broad 

 posterior end reaching about to posterior rim of orbit; lower jaw some- 

 what projecting with a symphyseal knob; fine scales on maxillary and 

 part of lower jaw. Preorbital broad, with usually 1 or 2 small, rather 

 blunt, spines; suborbital stay short; preopercular spines directed back- 

 ward, the 2 upper sharpest, the middle one flatter and larger but not 

 divided. Dorsal spines high, strong, the fourth longest, 1 J in head ; mem- 

 brane of spinous dorsal deeply incised, attached to the thirteenth spine 

 at about the middle of its height ; the soft rays a little shorter than the 

 spines ; second anal spine scarcely longer or stronger than the third, 2 in 

 head, If in soft rays; first anal equal to eye and snout; caudal truncate; 

 pectoral reaching to or beyond vent, 3 to 3-J- in length of body, its base 

 3 in its length; accessory scales few. Dark brown, more or less washed 

 with coppery or yellowish, the dark shades being dark red, the pale 

 shades light brownish and better defined than in S. vexillaris, but similarly 

 placed. In alcohol, body and head blackish above, with a very slight pink- 

 ish tint ; paler below ; fins all blackish ; pale shades whitish ; peritoneum 

 white. Puget Sound to Sitka; abundant northward; replacing S. vexil- 

 laris. This species is very close to Sebastodes vexillaris in general char- 

 acter, but differs from it in color. It has fewer accessory scales, a more 

 prominent, somewhat projecting, lower jaw with symphyseal knob, a 

 broader preorbital, less flattened cranial ridges, a longer second anal 

 spine, and lower dorsal spines. The body is apparently more compressed, 

 the pectoral a little longer, the posterior end of the maxillary a little 

 broader, with a slightly different outline. Here described from speci- 

 mens from Seattle, (caurinus, northwestern, from caurus, northwest 

 wind. ) 



