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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Genus 213. SEBASTOPSIS Gill. 
This genus differs from Sebastodes in the absence of palatine teeth. D. xhi, 9 or 10; A. in, 5. No 
dermal flaps; cheeks and opercles scaly; preorbital with obtuse spines or none. The known species 
are all of very small size and are often preserved in Chinese insect boxes. 
Sebastopsis Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 278 ( polylepis ). 
a. Body without dermal appendages kelloggi, p. 462 
aa. Body with many minute dermal appendages parvipinnis, p. 463 
383. Sebastopsis kelloggi Jenkins. Fig. 202. 
Head 2.5 in length; depth 3.2; eye 3.35 in head; snout 3.65; interorbital 5.5; maxillary 1.65; 
mandible 1.6; D. xiii, 9; A. in, 5; F. 19; v. i, 5; scales 5-31-9. 
Body elongate, compressed, greatest depth about middle of trunk; back not elevated; snout rather 
short, blunt, rounded; mandible rather large, jaws equal; mouth large, slightly oblique; maxillary 
large, broadly expanded distally, 1.25 in eye; teeth fine, in narrow bands in jaws and on vomer, none 
on palatines; tongue thick, small, broad, pointed, free in front; lips rather thin; eye in anterior half 
of head; nostrils close together, anterior with elevated rim and long, thin, fleshy flap; interorbital 
Fig. 202 . — Sebastopsis kelloggi Jenkins; from the type. 
space deeply concave; nasal, preocular, supraocular, postocular, tympanic, coronal, parietal and 
nuchal spines present; a row of several spines back of eye over opercle; a row of spines across cheek 
below eye ending in a large spine at edge of opercle, 2 below; 2 spines on opercle; preorbital and 
supraorbital flaps rather long and thin; dorsal spines all rather low, sixth longest, 3.65 in head; second 
dorsal ray 2.7; second anal spine largest, 2 in head; third anal ray 1.9; caudal rounded 1.5; pectoral 
1.5; ventral 1.5; caudal peduncle compressed, its least depth 3.5; scales rather large, very finely 
ctenoid; head with small scales on top, cheeks and opercles; tubes of lateral line large, conspicuous, 
and forming a nearly straight included course to base of caudal. Described from an example (No. 
637) taken at Henshaw’s Pool, Hilo. 
Color in life of a specimen 1.3 inches long (No. 03550), dark parts dark brown, lighter parts gray. 
Color in alcohol, rich dark brown, variegated with deeper brown specks; head more or less varie- 
gated with brown above, pale or whitish beneath; a deep brown blotch below eye; a pale brown band 
across first half of caudal peduncle, the remaining portion and base of caudal blackish brown; side in 
front of caudal peduncle broadly deep brown, extending forward to middle of spinous dorsal, and 
including basal portion of soft dorsal and anal where it becomes black; remaining portions of soft 
