SEBASTES CAPENSIS. — Cuv. et Vall. 
Pisces. — Plate XXII. Fig. 1. 
S. ruber, partibus inferioribus pallide purpureo-tinctis ; capite superne aculeis duodecim ; preoperculo 
aculeis quinque, operculo duobus versus apicem armatis; pinna caudali subfalcata. 
Lougitudo e naso ad apicem pinnae caudalis 14 unc. 
Scobp^na Capensis, Gmel. 
Scoepene Afbicaine, Lacep. t. iii. p. 2G6. 
Colour. — The upper surface of the head, its sides to the operculum, and 
the body above the lateral line, a tint intermediate between chesnut-brown 
and purplish red, which towards the caudal fin passes into light reddish 
orange. The edges of most of the scales are of a light pearly colour, and in 
addition to these slight variegations, there occur also a few irregular-shaped 
flesh-red spots distinctly indicated in the fresh fish. Lower parts of body 
below lateral line and hinder portion of operculum buff-orange shaded with 
aurora-red, and towards lateral line faintly clouded with crimson-red ; the 
point of operculum carmine-red. Lower jaw, lower portion of operculum, 
space in front of pectoral and ventral fins, and the upper lips intermediate 
between brownish purple-red and lake-red. Dorsal fin between lake-red and 
chesnut-brown. Pectoral, ventral, and caudal fins aurora-red, the two first 
rayed with lake-red only very faintly towards lower part of pectorals, the 
caudal is rayed with light orange- coloured brown, and tinged with lake-red. 
Anal fin pale buff-orange rayed with brownish purple-red. Eyes bright 
brownish orange, with incomplete rings of bright gall-stone yellow and 
King’s-yellow. 
Form, & c. — Figure anteriorly bulky, posteriorly rather slender, the body 
being much tapered towards the caudal fin. Head large posteriorly, and 
tapered to the snout ; not quite a third of the length of the fish, and supe- 
riorly is armed on each side with an irregular row of spines, several of 
which have their base prolonged horizontally, forming fine sharp heels, best 
seen in prepared specimens. One of these points occurs immediately inside 
