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375. UIELLETES Bean. 

 (Bean, Proc. U. S, Nat. Mus. 1879, 354: type Mcllctcs papilio Bean.) 



Body moderately elongate. Head broad, depressed, rounded in front, 

 naked, with several cutaneous flaps; jaws, vomer, and palatines with 

 bands of villiform teeth; preopercular spines simple, rather strong; 

 gill-membranes broadly connected, free from the isthmus; a slit behind 

 the last gill; a narrow band of ctenoid scales along sides of back, 

 meeting in front of dorsal; a few prickles on anterior parts of body, 

 and some small dermal flaps on sides; skin otherwise naked; dorsals 

 connected; the spinous dorsal long, not emargiuate; pectorals well de- 

 veloped, the rays all simple; ventrals very long, I, 4, the inner surface 

 of the rays armed with stiff setaj; pyloric co3ca G; no air-bladder. 

 Alaska. (//TJ/U^T, a loiterer; remaining in shallow pools as the tide 

 recedes.) 



1100. UI. papilio Beun. 



Grayish brown, with darker bands and various mottlings; belly 

 grayish, with round white spots; fins all much mottled and barred. 

 Nasal spines obtuse; 2 spines above posterior part of orbits, and 2 on 

 the vertex, the last four with short filaments. Ventrals 2 in length, 

 longer than pectorals, extending to the seventh anal ray ((?). Head 

 4; depth !>-;. D. XII, 20; A. 17; P. 17; V. I, 4. L. 7 inches. Saint 

 Paul's Island, Alaska. 



(Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 18/9, 354.) 



376. SCORP.ENICIITHYS Girard. 



(Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1854, 131: type Hcmitriptcrus mannoratus Ayrcs.) 

 Body rather robust, covered with smooth, thick skin. Head large, 

 somewhat compressed, its upper surface rugose. Mouth rather large, 

 with villiform teeth on jaws, vomer, and palatines; gill -membranes 

 broadly united, five from the isthmus; a large slit behind fourth gill; 

 preoperqolar spines small, simple; spinous dorsal long, scarcely emar- 

 ginate, but slightly depressed near its middle, the first four spines 

 shorter than those immediately following: ventral lins large, I, 5. Size 

 large. Pacific Ocean. (<rxo/>7rafya, Scorp&na; ly,0"~, fish.) 



1101. S. iii:iriiior:tns (Avns) Cr.l. 



Olive brown, thickly mottled with dark blotches and light spots, and 

 reticulated with different shades of green and brown ; sides with 5 irreg- 

 ular, dark, vertical blotches, of which two are under each dorsal ;md 



