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268. Hypomacrus albaiensis Evermann & Scale, now species. 



Head 2.25 in length without caudal; depth 3.25: eye 3.75 in head: snout 3.75; interorbital 2 in snout: 

 dorsal xm, 9 (the cotype has the soft dorsal deformed, with only 5 rays); anal in, 5; scales 5-26-13, about Hi 

 tubules in lateral line. 



Body moderately compressed, the head rather elongate, the lower jaw projecting, depth of caudal peduncle 

 4.1 in head; maxillary 2 in head, the distal end under the posterior margin of pupil, its distal width 1.5 in eye; 

 mandible 1.75 in head; villiform teeth on jaws and vomer, none on palatines; gillrakers very .small, S on lower 

 limb of first arch; spines of head as follows: opercular 2; preopercular 2, the upper the larger, with a small 

 superimposed spine on its base; bony stay across cheek with 2 spines, 4 above eye, 5 on each side of nuchal 

 region; a distinct fringed orbital tentacle equal in length to pupil; a short dermal flap at base of each nuchal 

 spine; a branched Hap at nostril, and a rather long preorbital flap hanging over maxillary. 



Body entirely scaled, head scaled: origin of dorsal above axil of pectoral, longest spine 3.2 in head; 

 origin of anal under origin of soft dorsal, its longest ray 2 in head, the second anal spine the longest and strongest , 

 2.3 in head: origin of ventrals about midway between tip of upper jaw and origin of anal, their length 1 .85 in 

 head, their tips falling far short of anal; pectoral peculiar, the 9 upper rays short, about 2 in head, their tips 

 scarcely extending past tips of ventrals: the lower part of fin elongate, composed of 7 simple rays, the longest 

 1.19 in head, their tips beyond line with origin of anal fin; caudal rounded, 1.65 in head. 



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Fig. 20. — Hypomacrus albaiensis Evermann & Scale, new species. Type 



Color in spirits, mottled brownish, a large yellowish area occupying entire upper two-thirds of opercle, 

 extending to eve anteriorly, and posteriorly extending down and covering base of pectoral; a round black 

 opercular spot posterior of and between the preopercular spines; about 5 indistinct rather narrow dark bands 

 over back ; spinous dorsal with irregular dusky markings, soft dorsal with dark base and tip, the mid portion 

 whitish; anal with irregular dark markings, the most distinctive being a black spot on posterior axil of fin; 

 ventrals shaded with dusky dots posteriorly; pectoral with brown dots on the short rays, the elongate rays 

 white "iili a lew scattered brown dots: caudal dusky at tip, aslight dusky wash on base of rays. 



Type, no. 55902, U. S. National Museum, original no. 3866 (10.771), 2.5 inches long, from Bacon, Sorsog 



P. I., collected by Mr. Charles •' Pierson. Cotype, no. 20,006, Stanford University, a specimen 2.25 inches 

 long, also I'lo iii Bacon. 



269. Sebastopsis scabra (Ramsay L v. Ogilby). 



< toe specimen from Baeiiii (no. 4004; length 2.75 in). 



Si bastt s scdbt r Ramsay & Ogilby, Proc. I. inn. Soc. N. S. W-, X, 1S85, 577. Shark Reef, Australia. 

 Si baslopsis scabra, Jordan & Seale. l'roc. U. S. Nat. Mas., xxvni, 1905 (July :; ,791 i Negros). 



270. Sebastopistes tristis (Klunzinger). 



Three specimens from Bacon (no. 3612 to 3014: length 4 to 4.5 in.). This species is close to S. nivifer 

 Jordan & Scale, described from Xegros. P. I., differing in the orbital spines, the dermal flaps, and the color. 



Scorps ne tristis EClunzinger, Synop. Fische des Rothen Meers, Verh. Zool.-Bni . Cesellseh. Wien, w. 1870, ml'. Red Sea. 

 Scorpxna bakeri Seale, Fishes of Guam, in i >ce. Papers Bishop Mus., vol. i, no. '2. 1901, 120. Guam. 



