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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



vol. 4S. 



List of stations. 



4306 

 4337 

 4317 

 4322 

 4333 

 4336 

 43ol 

 4353 



4401 

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 4412 

 4421 

 1517 

 4523 

 4530 

 4540 

 4542 



OH Sin Diego 



do 



FUbw. 



2J7-497 



161-510 

 110-199 

 301-4S7 

 c :>-::•: 

 423-488 

 628-640 

 245-2S5 

 500-507 

 44^-4-iS 

 542-599 

 265-274 

 229-298 

 750-766 

 130-149 

 755-953 

 389-551 

 331-456 



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do 



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GO 



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do 



Npar P»T>r» CatAltna Torrid . . 



V- - Run Xir»nla<? Island 



Monterey Bav 



do 



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As will be seen from this list, the species is much more abundant 

 in southern California than S. alascanus, and occurs in deeper water. 



SEBASTODES RHODOCHXORIS Jordan and Gilbert. 



List of stations. 



4310 

 4339 



4343 

 4410 

 4414 



Near San Diego 



Fathom*. 



71-75 



241-369 



55-155 



I7S-Ir5 



131-162 



do 



03 Coronado Islands 



Off Santa rataltna Island* 



do 





The specimens vary much in the length and strength of the dorsal 

 spines, in the prominence of the occipital ridges, and in the color of 

 the dorsal region, the green wavy lines and spots being present in 

 some specimens and apparently absent in others. There is also a 

 difference in the amount of black pigment in the lining of the abdo- 

 men and gill-chamber. The maxillary and mandible are largely 

 scaled in all the specimens, and resemble in this respect 5. umbras 

 which I am unable at present to distinguish from 5. rhodocKloris. 

 At the same time it is possible that more than one species is repre- 

 sented in the specimens here noted and can be chstinguished when a 

 large amount of material is brought together. 



SEBASTODES ATJRICULATUS (Girard\ 



The young specimens. 2S0 mm. long, were taken with hook and line 

 at anchorage in Wilson Cove, San Clemente Island. Thev are both 

 without coronal spines and exhibit faint cross-bare downwards from 

 back. They thus agree in essential characters with the northern form 

 which has been recognized as Selastodes auriculatus daJli. 1 As S. 

 daUi was described from the vicinity of San Francisco and is now found 

 to occur among the Santa Barbara Islands in company with typical 

 auriculatus, the name is not available for a northern subspecies, if 



1 Jordan and Starks, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1S95, p. 798. 



