Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 1827 



Sebastes fasciatus, GIRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1854, 146, and in TJ. S. Pac. K. K. Surv., 



x, Fishes, 79, 1858, San Francisco; not of STOKER. 

 Sebastes nebulosus, AYRES, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., 1, 1854, 5, San Francisco. 

 Sebastichthys fasciolaris, LOCKINGTON, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 297, San Francisco. 

 Sebastodes nebulosus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 676, 1883; CRAMER, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., 



series 2, V, 1895, 603, pi. 67, fig. 32. 



Subgenus SEBASTICHTHYS, Gill. 

 2281. SEBASTODES SERRH EPS (Jordan & Gilbert). 



(TREEFISH.) 



Head 3; depth 2; pectoral 3; eye small, 5 in head. D. XIII, 13; A. 

 Ill, 5; scales 50. Body robust, compressed behind. Head compressed. 

 Mouth large, the maxillary reaching to opposite middle of eye, its length 

 2 in head; jaws equal. Cranial ridges covered with lax, thick skin, 

 placed nearly in a right line on each side; interorbital space closely 

 scaled; preorbital rather broad; preopercular spines sharp; jaws naked; 

 membranes of spinous dorsal thick, covered with small scales. Gill 

 rakers short, stift', and clavate. Dorsal spines strong, rather low, scarcely 

 exserted, lower than the soft rays, the longest 2$- in head; second anal 

 spines 2 in head, stronger than third, scarcely longer; pectorals broad 

 and rounded, the lower rays thickened, the tips reaching vent ; ventrals 

 reaching beyond vent ; caudal rounded. Bones of skull moderately thick; 

 preocular, postocular, tympanic, parietal, and nuchal spines present, short, 

 thick, rather blunt, the ridges very thick and high; nuchal spines some- 

 times coalescent with parietals; parietal bones meeting in a straight line; 

 interorbital space narrow, 6 in base of skull, concave; 2 strong ridges 

 over mucous canals; ventral process of basisphenoid well developed; 

 mesethmoid processes strong, compressed, slightly elevated, distal half 

 decurved ; base of skull straight. Dark olive, blackish above, yellowish 

 below; sides with about 7 oblique black cross bands, wider than eye, 

 usually sharply denned, but sometimes faint in the young; 2 black bands 

 downward and backward from eye; lips, mouth, front and lower part of 

 head strongly washed with coppery red; bases of fins with small wliitish 

 spots ; fins blackish olive ; cranial ridges black ; peritoneum pale. Length 

 12 inches. Coast of California, from Point Reyes to Cerros Island; very 

 abundant southward, about rocks near shore ; one of the most singularly 

 marked of the rockfishes. (serra, saw; -ceps, head.) 



Sebastichthys serriceps, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 38, Santa Catalina 

 Island; Santa Barbara. (Type, No. 26918. Coll. Jordan & Gilbert.) 



Sebastodes serriceps, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 676,1883; CRAMER, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci.. 

 series 2, v, 1895, 601, pi. 65, fig. 25. 



2232. SEBASTODES NIGROCIXCTUS (Ayres). 



(BLACK-BANDED ROCKFISH.) 



Head2f; depth 2f; eye large, 4 in head. D. XIII, 15; A. Ill, 7; scales 

 50. Body short, deep, and compressed, deeper than in any of the other 

 species ; back arched. Head large, compressed. Mouth very large ; max- 



