ADDENDA 106. SCORPyENID^E SCORP.ENA. 951 



pectorals in this species are subtruncate, the lower rays somewhat 

 exserted. The group called by Poey "Pontinits" is not of this type, 

 but allied rather to Scorpccna proper. 



Page 681. Scorpcena porcus should probably be erased, its occurrence 

 in our waters being very doubtful. The following species has been, 

 perhaps, mistaken for it : 



IO3S (6). S. stearnsi Goode & Bean. 



Dusky olivaceous, whitish below; head with some dark blotches and 

 small spots; back and sides with diffuse blackish blotches; body 

 sparsely covered with round dusky spots, smaller than pupil ; these 

 spots most numerous and distinct in the axillary region, which is other- 

 wise whitish; spiuous dorsal marbled, with a median dusky baud; its 

 base whitish, with black spots; soft dorsal and anal irregularly mar- 

 bled; caudal with a broad median and a terminal band of blackish; pec- 

 torals mottled and banded ; ventrals dusky at tip. Body robust, little 

 compressed, tapering posteriorly. Mouth moderate, oblique, the jaws 

 equal, the lower with a small symphyseal knob ; maxillary 2 in head, 

 reaching to below posterior margin of orbit. Preorbital with two di- 

 verging spines; suborbital without deep pit, its stay low, armed with 

 t\vo small spines; nasal spines inconspicuous; interorbital space deeply 

 concave, with 2 longitudinal ridges, its width diameter of eye. 

 Cranial ridges rather low, moderately sharp; the following pairs 

 present: preocular, supraocular, postocular, coronal, occipital, nuchal, 

 besides 3 on the temporal region, arranged in a right line behind the 

 eye. Occipital pit deep, a little broader than long. Preopercular 

 spines 5, the two lower blunt and short, the upper much the longest, 

 half as long as the eye; a small spine at its base. Supraocular flap v.ery 

 small, trilobate, shorter than pupil (much larger in a young example, ap- 

 parently of the same species, in which its length is about half head). 

 Small dermal flaps elsewhere on head. Opercular flap scaly; a few ru- 

 dimentary scales on cheeks and front of opercle. Breast with small 

 scales. Gill-rakers short and thick. Scales large, smooth, with mem- 

 branous edges; a series of dermal flaps along the lateral line and at 

 the dorsal base. Dorsal spines slender, the longest 2i times in head ; 

 longest soft ray half as long as head; caudal subtruncate, 1 in head. 

 Anal spines small, the second and third equal, 2f in head. Longest 

 soft ray of anal half as long as head. Veutrals 1 in head. Pectorals 

 reaching soft rays of anal, the longest ray slightly shorter than head; 



