1826 Bulletin <//, United States National Museum. 



fins the color of the region to which they belong; head above with 

 dusky cross shades and faint bands radiating from eye; peritoneum pale. 

 Length 13 inches. Pacific coast of America, from Puget Sound to San 

 Diego; abundant in rather deep water; northern specimens more dull in 

 color than those from San Francisco, (xpv 60^ gold; //f'Aa?, black.) 



Sebastichthys chrysomelas, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 455 and 465, Mon- 



terey. (Type, No. 26968. Coll. Jordan & Gilbert.) 

 Sebastichthys chrysomelas var. purpureus* EIQENMANN & EIGENMANN, West American 



Scientist 1889, 130, San Diego. 

 Sebastodes chrysomelas, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 675, 1883. 



2230. SEBASTODES NEBTJLOSUS (Ayres). 



(YELLOW-SPOTTED ROCKFISH.) 



Head 3; depth 2f; eye large, 3 in head. D. XIII, 13; A. Ill, 7; lateral 

 line 49. Body robust, the back elevated, the profile steep. Mouth rather 

 large, the jaws equal, the maxillary 2 in length of head, extending to 

 beyond pupil; jaws naked; preopercular spines short. Gill rakers as in 

 S. chrysomelas. Dorsal rather high, considerably emarginate, the highest 

 spines 2 in head, higher than soft rays; caudal truncate; second anal 

 spine 2 in head, stouter and slightly longer than third, much lower than 

 soft rays; pectorals short and broad, 3^ in length, reaching beyond tips 

 of ventrals to vent. Scales rough, the accessory scales numerous. Bones 

 of skull moderately thin; preocular, postocular, tympanic, and parietal 

 spines present, the ridges very high and strong; parietal bones far apart; 

 interorbital space narrow, 5 in base of skull, made deeply concave by the 

 very high supraoccipital ridges, with nearly flat center; ventral process 

 of basisphenoid well developed, mesethmoid processes compressed, thin, 

 much elevated ; base of skull straight. Ground color blue black of vary- 

 ing shade, sometimes tinged with yellowish anteriorly, everywhere finely 

 and irregularly freckled and spotted with yellow or white, the light color 

 usually bright and sharply defined; these spots smallest and most numer- 

 ous on head; a broad irregular yellow band, made of confluent blotches, 

 from between third and fourth dorsal spines, involving their membrane, 

 downward to lateral line, thence backward to base of caudal; fins all 

 black, with light spots at base; under parts soiled yellow; peritoneum 

 pale. Length 12 inches. Pacific coast of America, from Vancouver Island 

 to Point Concepcion; a very pretty species, in rather deep water; abun- 

 dant. (nebulosus, clouded.) 



Ei g enmaiin thu 8 describes Sebastichthys chrysomelas purpureus: 

 speci 



rni A -' ar rown ; ower Porons 



mrple ; base of pectoral and its upper half brown, tinged with yellow. A purpl 

 r n d mp g mf m 6ye d ? wnward and backward to subopercle, below which is a greeni 

 m JiiiE ^nwpr 6 ?- mem branes below maxillary, breast, and belly dirty yellow ; m 

 low , er . h P y e / low ' "PPer slate blue; membranes between 

 wL 6 ^! I * 1 SplDeS purple ' the color ^tending on b 

 on^ blotched *i* P-ple, 



is a d?st?n e rt^ 8 -^ 0n i^ e ^ Die .S ma f ket - . (Eigenmann & Eigenmann.) Whether this 

 we cannot determine J mten8lfication <* the usual black and orange coloration 



