1885.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 401 



Habitat. — West Indies; Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of Tropical 

 America, north to Florida. 



This species was studied from specimens varying in length 

 from three to eight inches, collected at Havana and Key West, 

 by Dr. Jordan. 



The species may be known at once by the coloration of the 

 pectoral axil, which is jet black, with large white spots. 



Below is given a table of measurements of three specimens from 

 Key West. The proportions are given in hundredths of length 

 from tip of snout to the end of last vertebra : 



Extreme length of fish in inches, 8 7i 4? 



Length of fish from end of snout to last caudal vertebra, 



in inches, 6 r>3 :;i 



Greatest depth of fish (hundredths of the above), . . 34 :!4 35£ 



Greatest width of body, 28 32£ 26 



Length of head, . . . 45 48£ 46£ 



Length of maxillary, 22 23^ 22£ 



Distance from snout to orbit, . . . . . 13 13 13 



Diameter of orbit, 9 10 11 



I bight of highest dorsal spine, 16 18 19^ 



Height of highest dorsal ray, 18 16 



Length of pectoral, 36 37^ 34 



Width of pectoral hase, 19 17 18 



Length of ventrals, 31 31 30 



Height of second anal spine, 20| 21^ 2<>a 



Height of third anal spine, 18^ 19 21 



S. Scorpaena grandicornis. 



Scorpama grandicornis Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 



1829, 309 (Martinique ;PoitoRico ; Havana : San Domingo); Giinther, 



Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., ii, 1860, 114 (Jamaica); Poey, Syn. Pise. Cub., 



1868, 303 (Havana); Poey, Enum. Pise. Cub., 1875, 40 (Havana); 



Jordan, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 138 (Key West); Jordan, < at. 



Fish. N. A., 1885, 109. 

 Scorpcena plumicri Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ii, 1800, 282, pi. 19, f. 



3 (not of Bloch and Schneider, based on a drawing by Plunder: 



Martinique). 



Habitat. — West Indies, Florida Ke} T s to Brazil. 



Our study of this species was made from numerous small 

 specimens, none exceeding five inches in length, collected at Key 

 West b}- Dr. Jordan, and from a large example taken at Havana. 



The species may be readily distinguished by the absence of 

 coronal spines, by the great size of the supraocular tentacles, 

 and by the small white spots in the pectoral axil. 

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