SEBASTES MACULATUS.— Cuv. et Vall. 
Pisces— Plate XXII. Fig. 2. 
g !ubrab , r . .spite .uporm nculeis pteope.oulo «I* ,™,u5 opera* **. 
°rostro lato rotundato ; cm.gno; pins, ss* ».«!«. .eo»nd. 
Longituuo e naso ad apicem pinnce caudalis 14 ad 16 unc. 
Colour —The upper parts of the head and the body above the lateral 
Hue a tint intermediate between light carmine-red and tile-red the former 
and the anterior portion of the latter shaded with brownish red, the posterior 
portion mottled with shades of Dutch-orange, and moreover marked wit 
a few irregular-shaped spots of flesh-red. Sides of the head and the body 
below the lateral line dull flesh red, clouded with varying tints of 1, lac-pui pie 
and Dutch-orange ; the belly distinctly tinged with yellow Lower jaw and 
operculum inferiorly flesh-red shaded with lavender-purple; upper l.p dull 
orpiment-orange. Dorsal fin close to base intermediate between _t le- 
red and blood-red, towards upper edge light tile-red; the very base of the 
membranous portion pale buff-orange; caudal, pectoral and ventral fans 
flesh-red rayed with lake-red; anal fin pale buff-orange rayed and shaded 
with lake-red. Eyes light gall-stone yellow, variegated with incomplete rings 
of tile-red and pearl-grey. TJ j u * 
Form, &c.-Figure anteriorly bulky, the belly pendant. Head about one- 
third of the length of the fish, and superiorly armed on each side with tie 
same number of spines and cutting ridges as Sebastes Capensis, only both are 
more developed. Preoperculum with five strong triangular and pointed 
SDines : operculum with two lengthened spines about hall an inch in lion o 
its fleshy triangular point, the uppermost the most conspicuous. Distance 
between the eyes greater than in Sebastes Capensis, and the breadth of its 
nose and the width of its gape also much greater. Nostrils double, one in 
f t of the other ; teeth criniform and arranged in the form of a narrow 
band around the inner edge of each jaw. Eyes large and projecting consi- 
derably in advance of the orbits. Lateral line slightly undulated and nearly 
