DISCUSSION OF SPECIES AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION. 



MEASLTKEMENTS— Continued. 



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Current number of specimen. 

 Locality 



Dorsal : 



Distance from snout 



Length of base 



(jreatest height at fourth spine. 



Height at lirst spine 



Height at second spine 



Height at t bird spiue 



(Soft) length of base 



Anal: 



Distance from snout 



Length of Ijase 



Height atfirst spine 



Height at second spine 



Height at third spine 



Height at longest ray 



Caudal : 



Length of middle rays 



Pectoral : 



Distance from snout 



Length 



Ventral; 



Distance from snout 



Length 



Dorsal 



Anal , 



26081 

 Station STB. 



Millime- 

 ters. 



lOOths of 

 length. 



42 

 34 

 2:t 

 11) 

 18 

 22 

 Mutilated. 



80 

 12 

 7 

 14 

 14 

 15 



44 

 44 



44 



25 



XI. I, 10 



III, 6 



The steamer Blalce obtained two specimens of this species, 53 millimeters and 52 milli- 

 meters long, respectively, from station cccxxvii, in 34° 00' 30" N. lat., 70° 10' 30" \V. Ion. 

 at a depth of 178 fathoms; and two specimens from station xovil, off Barbadoes, at a depth 

 of 209 fathoms. 



Specimens were taken by the Albatross from station 2397, in 28° 42' N. lat., 86° 36' 

 W. Ion. at a depth of 280 fathoms; and from station 2426, in 36° 01' 30' N. lat., 74° 47' 30" 

 W. Ion., at a depth of 93 fathoms. 



LIOSCORPIUS, Gunther. 

 Lioscorpius, GOntiier, Challenger Report, i, Part vi, p. 40, pi. xvii, fig. G. 



Scorptenids with head and body comiiressed, the former with muciferous cavities 

 above, and with scarcely any ridges or spines. Occiput without groove, naked. Three 

 strong sliarp spines upon the preoperculum and two upon the opercular flap. The mouth 

 very large, the snout elongate, the curve of the mouth being downward. Orbit encroaching 

 uixdi upper outline of head. Body covered with small scales, and with a wide, naked lat- 

 eral line with about 28 skinny tubes. Dorsal flus separate; the flrst low, with eight or 

 nine spines, the flrst, second, and third evenly graduated. Pectoral fin long, lanceolate, with 

 simple rays. Teeth villiform in bands in thejawsandon the vomer and palatine bones. 

 Braiichiostegals vii. 



The type of this genus is Lioscorpius longiceps, Giinther, loc. cit., pi. xvii, fig. C, which 

 closely resembles Sctarches parmatiis in form, except that its head and snout are longer, 

 and the upper jaw curves downward. . The genus seems well enough seiiarated from 

 iSetarches by the smooth, grooveless occiput and the simple character of the rays of the 

 pectoral. 



Family COTTID^E. 



Coitoidcw, Richardson, Fauna Boreali-Americana, 1836, 36. 



CoUidw, GiRARD, Cottidaj of N. America, 1858, 1.— Gill, Arr. Fam. Fishes, 1872, 6 (No. 55), Proc. U. S. Nat. 



Mus. XI, 1889, 590. 

 Cottini, Bonaparte, Catalogo Metodico, 1846, 62.— Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mas., ii, 1,52. 



Oottoids with a well-developed myodome; uninterrupted cranial valleys behind. Body 

 fusiform or compressed. Iiiterocular sjiace usually narrow. A bony stay connecting sub- 

 orbital and preopercle, usually covered by skin ; upper angle of ])i('opercle usually with one 

 or more spinous processes. Teeth in villiform or cardiform bands on jaws, and (usually) on 

 vomer and palatines; premaxillaries protractile; maxillary without supplemental bone. 



