1897.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 131 



The very small specimens are very dark with small spots as in 

 the adults ; fins pale. They have a number of cirri around the 

 mouth, a pair above the eyes being especially large. One pair, 

 those on the chin, remain in the adult. 



177. Chilomycterus antillarum Jordan & Rutter, new species. 



Allied to Chilomycterus schoepfi, differing in having the whole 

 body covered with black hexagonal reticulations instead of parallel 

 lines. This species has been described by Poey, Synopsis Cuban 

 Fishes, p. 429, as "Species dubia, an Chilomycterus fuliginosus? " 



Supraorbital spines two, one frontal spine, a single spine below 

 and in front of eye, two between eye and gill-opening ; interorbital 

 space deeply concave ; a transverse series of cirri on chin, and 

 nearly all of the spines along the margin of the belly have cirri, but 

 there are none above the eyes. Spines short and flat. 



Color, in alcohol : Above chestnut-brown, paler on sides, yellow- 

 ish below, the body everywhere covered with reticulating black 

 lines enclosing more or less nearly hexagonal areas somewhat 

 smaller than the pupil ; on the belly, lines become heavier, so that 

 Poey's character of " orange spots in a dark back-ground " is not 

 far wrong ; an ocellated black spot about the size of the eye above 

 the pectoral, another behind it, and one on each side of the dorsal ; 

 a black blotch on chin in front of the row of cirri and another at 

 each end. 



Type 5,056, L. S. Jr. Univ. 



SCORP^NimE. 



178. Scorpsena brasiliensis Cuvier & Valenciennes. Crimson Poison Grouper. 

 Scorpana brasiliensis Cuvier & Valenciennes, IV, 305, 1829. 



179. Scorpaena plumieri Bloch. Cockade Lady ; Poison Grouper. 



Scorpcena plumieri Bloch, Nya Handl. Stockh., X, 234, 1789; Jordan & 

 Gilbert, Synopsis, 680. 



Two specimens 10 in. long. Head relatively much wider and 

 supraocular flap much smaller than in a specimen 1\ in. long from 

 Havana, but agreeing otherwise in every detail of structure. Color, 

 head very dark : body dark olive with two large black blotches or 

 bands ; one extending from spinous dorsal and the other from ante- 

 rior half of soft dorsal ; caudal pale olive, a black band at base and 

 tip and one through middle ; pectorals and ventrals variously mottled 

 with different shades of olive, black and brown ; anal barred and 

 blotched with white, black and brown, and a little yellowish-olive 



