G82 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY - IV. 



36O. SETARCHES Johnson. 



(Johnson, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1862, 11: type St-larchc* giintheri Johnson.) 



As here understood, this genus differs from Scorpcuna in having less 

 than 12 dorsal spines and the scales cycloid, without skinny flaps. 

 Deep-sea fishes. Our species differs from 8. giinthcri in the possession 

 of but ten dorsal spines instead of eleven. (Etymology not obvious.) 



1O39. . imrmattiK Goode. 



Body stout and deep. Fins high ; vertical fins inserted well back, 

 the paired fins well forward. Interorbital widtli half the length of the 

 upper jaw, about equal to the orbit. Eye moderate, nearly 4 in head. 

 Scales comparatively large, regularly arranged, cycloid, with concentric 

 furrows and no dermal flaps. Cranial ridges developed about as in Se- 

 Jjoxtes. Preopercular spines very long; caudal truncate. Pectoral flu 

 long, 2| in body. Head 2; depth 2f. D. X, G + ; A. Ill, G. (Goode.) 

 Deep water off Rhode Island; known from a young specimen. 



(Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1830, 480.) 



FAMILY CVII (). COTTID^E. 



(The Scutyins.) 



Body moderately elongate, fusiform or compressed, tapering back- 

 ward from the head, which is usually broad and depressed. Eyes 

 placed high, the interocular space usually narrow; a bony stay con- 

 necting the suborbital with the preopercle, usually covered by the skin; 

 upper angle of preopercle usually with one or more spiuous processes. 

 Teeth equal, in villiform or cardiform bands on jaws, and usually on vo- 

 inerand palatines; premaxillaries protractile; maxillary without supple- 

 mental bone, dills ,'U or 4; slit behind the last gill small, or obsolete; 

 gill-rakers short, tubercle-like or obsolete; gill-membranes broadly con- 

 nected, often joined to the isthmus. P>ody naked, or variously armed with 

 scales, prickles, or bony plates, but never uniformly scaled. Lateral line 

 present, simple. Dorsal lins separate or somewhat connected, the spines 

 n-nally slender, the soft part elongate; caudal (in separate, rounded; 

 anal (in similar to the soft dorsal, without spines; pectoral (ins large, 

 with broad proeurreiit ba>es, the rays mostly simple, the upper some- 

 times branched ; vent nils thoracic, rarely entirely wanting, the rays usu- 

 ally less than !,.". I'seudobranehia- present, at least in all our species. 

 Pyloric c<rca usually in small number (1-*); air-bladder commonly 

 wanting. Genera about 40; species about 1 ."><), mostly of the rock pools 



