1860 Bulletin 4.7, United States National Museum. 



numerous on caudal; lower side of head white ; buccal and gill cavities 

 and peritoninum bright white. Length 10 inches. Gulf of California, 

 in moderately deep water. (Gilbert.) (sierra, a saw, in Spanish.) 



Scorpcena sierra, GILBERT, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1890, 82, Gulf of California at Albatross 

 Stations 2996 and 3011, in 112 and 71 fathoms, N. lat. 24 30' 15", W. long. 110 29', 

 and N. lat. 28 7', W. long. m 39' 45"- 



695. SETARCHES, Johnson. 



Setarches, JOHNSON, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1862, 177 (guntheri). 



Bathysebastes, STKINDACHNER & DODERLEIN, Denschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien 1884, 207 

 (albescent). 



Head and body compressed ; head scaleless above, its bones cavernous, 

 flat between the eyes; only 1 pair of spines at occiput; no 'transverse 

 groove at occiput, only small spines or none above orbit; opercle andpre- 

 opercle strongly armed with straight, long spines. Eye moderate, near, 

 but not touching, profile. Mouth terminal, broad, somewhat oblique; 

 maxillary extending to posterior edge of eye, much expanded behind. 

 Lower jaw somewhat projecting, the small symphyseal knob received in 

 rostral notch. Villiform teeth on jaws, vomer, and palatines. Preorbital 

 with 2 or 3 spines. Opercle scaly. Scales cycloid, moderate. Lateral 

 line a broad, scaleless groove with skinny (about 27 to 30) tubes. No laci- 

 nise. Dorsal deeply notched, with 12 spines, its origin in front of pec- 

 toral; soft dorsal shorter, the rays fewer than the spines. Anal inserted 

 under end of dorsal, its spines strong, graduated. Pectoral broad and 

 bony, with 20 or more rays, of which a considerable number of median 

 ones are branched. Branchiostegals 6 or 7. Pyloric appendages few. 

 Deep water. (Goode & Bean.) (Etymology not obvious.) 



2254. SETARCHES PARMATUS, Goode. 



Head 2fc; depth about 2|. D. XII, 10; A. Ill, 5 or 6; about 30 tubes in 

 lateral line. Body short, somewhat compressed; head somewhat com- 

 pressed. Interorbital area equal to eye. Eye somewhat below profile. 

 Ridges on top of head low and inconspicuous ; 2 extending to occiput, 

 terminating in low fiat spines ; 2 short ones over posterior margin of orbit, 

 ending in spines. Snout as long as orbit. Mouth wide, somewhat oblique, 

 maxillary reaching nearly to posterior margin of orbit, its extremity 

 expanded. Lower jaw scarcely projecting, without prominent knob at 

 symphysis. Sides of head lightly armed; 4 slender elongate spines on 

 preopercle; spines on opercle small and inconspicuous; 2 slender spines 

 on preorbital, the anterior one touching opening of mouth ; edge of sub- 

 orbital broadly scalloped with 2 points projecting downward opposite 

 anterior and posterior margin of orbit. Dorsal insertion in advance of 

 the pectoral, first spine more than -J- second, equal to ninth; second equal 

 to seventh; third and fourth equal, a little longer than maxillary, the fin 

 deeply notched; anal inserted under posterior part of soft dorsal, last 

 spine and longest ray equal, as long as soft dorsal; ventral base under 



