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fin deeply notched, the 5th web being the first to rise as much as halfway to tip 

 of spine behind it. 



General color scarlet in life, somewhat speckled with white; two diffuse white 

 bars across caudal; pectorals slightly white-spotted above; ventrals dark in the 

 young, later uniform red, like anal; mouth white within. W. H. L. 



The collection contains 9 specimens, 87 to 170 mm. long. This species is well 

 marked by its very large eye and long pectoral fins. 

 Rather deep water, West Indies to Florida. S. F. H. 



Scorpaena brasiliensis Cuvier and Valenciennes 



Common in the deep channels within the atoll, and on similar bottom in 

 slightly deeper water between East Key and Bird Key reef. The maximum size 

 of scores taken is roughly 150 mm. 



As it comes up from 10 or 12 fathoms, it is prevailingly red, with the lower 

 part of the side from cheek to caudal showing many spots of brown. In concrete 

 tanks it soon loses its ruddiness and its colors are practically black and gray. The 

 pattern is changeable, but not as notably as the color. Generally a darker bar 

 extends from the cheek through the eye. Four dark bands may appear on the 

 body, the first broadest, and approximately under dorsal origin; center of the 

 second near base of 9th spine; the next beneath middle of soft dorsal; and the 

 last on caudal peduncle. Pectorals crossed by many alternating checkered bars of 

 red and cream, or black and gray; dorsal and anal much mottled; ventrals plain 

 reddish, growing dusky toward tips; caudal with two pale bars, widest dorsally. 

 The body color is carried more or less to the boundary of the pupil, making the 

 eye appear deceptively small, and, thanks to the overlap of the dermal and iridial 

 color, it may roll for some distance without the fact's being betrayed by the out- 

 turning of any unpatterned surface. 



D. XII^ 1 /? or 10; A. 111,5/4 or 6, the spines graded from 1st to 3d; pectoral 

 with 18 or 19 rays, extending to vertical of 1st anal ray; a small postorbital spine 

 before and below the tympanic, commonly double; humeral spine single; sub- 

 orbital ridge with a spine below eye and another at its tip; chief preopercular 

 spine with a small supernumerary one at its base; several spines on preopercular 

 border below and sometimes a marginal tooth or teeth above it; ridges in inter- 

 orbital space strong. W. H. L. 



The collection contains 12 specimens, 95 to 150 mm. long. The very deep occip- 

 ital pit, and the rather sharp brown specks on the lower part of the side, which 

 extend into the axil of the pectoral, seem to be good recognition marks. 



Atlantic coast of tropical America, sometimes northward to North Carolina. 



S. F. H. 



Scorpaena dispar Longley and Hildebrand 



Scorpaena dispar Longley and Hildebrand, Carnegie Inst. Wash. Pub. 517, 1940, p. 246, 

 fig. 12 — Tortugas, Florida. 



