632 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



SeMstes norvegicus De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fislaes, 60, pi. 4, fig. 11, 1842, off 

 New York in deep water; Storee, Hist. Fish. Mass. 38, pi. VII, fig. 1, 

 1867. 



Sehastes marimis Goode & Bean, Bull. Essex Inst. XI, 14, 1879; Jordan &, 

 Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 651, 1883; Goode & Bean, Oceanic 

 Iclith. 260, pi. LXIX, fig. 248, 1896; H. M. Smith, Bull. U. S. F. C. 



1897, 105, 1898; Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 1760, 



1898, pi. OOLXVIII, fig. 653, 1900. 



The depth of the body is contained two and four fifths times 

 in the length of the body which is three times the length of the 

 head. Body ovate; back elevated, the ventral outline straight- 

 ish; top of head evenly scaled; interorbital space with two low 

 ridges, between which it is concave; nasal spines present; 

 cranial ridges moderate, rather low and sharp; preocular, supra- 

 ocular, postocular, tympanic, and occipital ridges present, the 

 latter with tips abruptly divergent; suprascapular spines very 

 sharp and prominent; opercular spines long and sharp; sub- 

 opercular spine prominent; preopercular spines slender and 

 sharp, the second longest; suborbital stay not reaching pre- 

 opercle; preorbital narrow, with two spines. Eye exceedingly 

 large, three in head, more than twice as wide as interorbital 

 space. Mouth very large, oblique; maxillary very broad, reach- 

 ing middle of eye, its length two and one third in head; pre- 

 maxillaries on level of middle of pupil; tip of lower jaw much 

 projecting, with a conspicuous, pointed symphyseal knob; mand- 

 ible and maxillary scaly; pseudobranchiae very large; gill rakers 

 long, stiff and strong. Dorsal spines sharp, the longest about as 

 long as eye; the fin deeply emarginate; soft rays not very high, 

 higher than the spines; caudal narrow, moderately forked; anal 

 spines moderate, graduated; the second a little shorter than eye; 

 pectoral rather long, reaching vent, its base narrow; ventral 

 reaching vent. Scales small, irregular, not strongly ctenoid. 

 Peritoneum brownish. I). XV-13; A. Ill, 7; Lat. 1. 40 (tubes); 

 scales about 85. 



Orange-red, nearly uniform, sometimes a dusky opercular 

 blotch, and about five vague dusky bars on back. Peritoneum 

 brownish. 



The rosefish is abundant at the hundred fathoms line off the 

 south coast of New England, and has been found in depths of 



