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mottled with reddish-brown and light. The dark base of caudal sep- 

 arated by a light area from the dark spots arranged in three or four 

 transverse bars on the distal two-thirds of the rays. Anal chiefly 

 dark with only a few white specks. Ventrals white, shaded with a 

 little brown. Numerous scattered brown specks on rays of pectoral?. 

 On the posterior side of base of pectoral and gradually diminishing 

 in number posteriorly in the axil and on the body area which the 

 fin covers when folded back are numerous white specks, about as 

 large as the pores of lateral line. One specimen from Canary Is- 

 lands ; length 9.5 cm. exclusive of caudal ; collected by O. F. Cook. 

 This species is allied to Scorpcena porcus, but differs in the arma- 

 ture of the head, in the coloration and in the more densely scaled 

 breast. 



44. Scorpsena teneriffea Jordan & Gunn, new species. 



Head 2§ ; depth 3 ; eye in head 3^, in inter-orbital width § ; 

 snout in head 4*. D. XII-10 ; A. III-5 ; scales 6-25-13, before 

 D. 2. Breast and head scaleless, latter pustulate, spinous, without 

 tentacles except over anterior nostrils ; a deep inter-orbital groove 

 corrugated by a furrow along its bottom and terminating posteriorly 

 in a deeper, transverse, occipital groove which is continuous with 

 the post-orbital cavities. A pair of small spines in occipital groove, 

 two pairs of large ones behind it ; a large, hooked spine in each post- 

 orbital pit, half way between which and the large supra-scapular 

 spine are two short, broad ones ; one or two small spines in anterior 

 part of post-orbital pit ; a large spine anteriorly, and two small ones 

 posteriorly on supra-orbital ridge ; two inter-nasal spines ; preor- 

 bital with anterior and postero-ventral extremities produced into 

 spines and with three or four median spines, the anterior of which 

 is largest and all of which, together with the one at postero-ven- 

 tral extremity, project over the maxillary ; sub-orbital ridge 

 strong, with three spines ; behind these, and situated on the poste- 

 rior edge of preopercle, are two closely apposed spines, the hinder 

 one the larger ; below this point, and also on posterior edge of pre- 

 opercle, are four, short, stout spines; two ridges, the lower one 

 stronger, cross the opercle terminating posteriorly in strong spines; 

 a strong humeral spine above axil. Scales ctenoid, moderately 

 large. Third and fourth dorsal spines longest, more than half 

 length of head. Second anal spine longest, nearly equal to longest 

 dorsal. 



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