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3 + 6; head naked, with the exception of a few imbedded 

 scales on preopercle and posterior part of opercle; scales 

 on body large, many of them with membranous flaps. 



Olive -brown almost black, marbled with light drab; 

 opercular flap with pale edge; the fins much spotted and 

 marbled, all except spinous dorsal, with white margin, 

 more distinct in the young; caudal fin showing three in- 

 distinct cross-bars; axil jet black, with white spots. 



Largest specimen fourteen inches long. 



This species differs from Scorpcsna plumieri in having 

 a wider and flatter interorbital area; the lower jaw wider 

 and more rounded in front; the knob at symphysis not 

 so sharp and projecting; the pit behind coronal spines 

 broader and not so deep, and the color darker. 



This species was also obtained at Mazatlan by Dr. Gil- 

 bert, who identified it provisionally as S corpcena -plumieri . 



Types numbered 1501, 1616, 1617, 2919 on the L. S. 

 Jr. Univ. Mus. register. 



196. Scorpsena sonorae (Jenkins & Evermann). 



This small species is not uncommon in the Astillero, 

 where numerous specimens, none of them over three 

 inches in length, were obtained. It has hitherto been 

 recorded only by Jenkins & Evermann from Guaymas. 



Gray above, the flaps pinkish, the bars blackish; lower 

 parts pink, bright on ventrals and anal; axil orange, 

 mottled with dusk}-; ventrals and pectorals black at tip, 

 edged with pale. Middle rays of pectoral slightly divided 

 at tip, not all of them being strictly simple. 



Family TRIGLID^. 



197. Prionotus horrens Richardson. 



Two small specimens, each about two inches long, ob- 

 tained in the Astillero. 



