Scale: N'cw Ha-waiian Fishes. ii 



666. Scorpaenopsis cocopsis Jenkins.* Fig. 5. 



Head 2.45, exclusive of caudal ; depth 2.75 ; eye 6.20 into 

 head ; snout 3 ; interorbital 4; D. xii 10; A. iii 5; V. 1-5; P. 18. 

 Scales of moderate size, 44 in lateral line. Head naked, but with 

 many spines and dermal flaps; there are also many dermal flaps all 

 over the body. Teeth villiform in jaws and vomer; no teeth on 

 palatines. A deep fossa below anterior of orbit; interorbital and 

 nauchal regions also deeph- concave. Conspicuous dermal flaps 

 just posterior of and overhanging anterior nostril, with a cluster of 

 three spines just above them. Premaxillaries reaching to below 

 hind margin of eye, 1.85 into head. About 12 spines on each side 

 of nauchal fossa, and about 12 on each side of the face, exclusive 

 of the spines at posterior margin of opercle and preopercle. Fins: 

 The caudal is rounded. The dorsal spines are strong, the fourth 

 is the longest, being equal to length of snout ; the second anal 

 spine is the longest, 2.88 into head. The base of the anal is con- 

 tained 3.75 into base of dorsal. Pectorals very large, the upper 

 six rays branched, the longest ray 1.50 into head; the base is 2 

 into head. Ventrals 1.88 into head. 



Color in life : A mottled grayish and dusky, some specimens 

 with reddish. A large dusky splotch covering the highest part of 

 the back from nauchial region to .seventh dorsal spine, and down 

 on sides to axis of body; the belly is covered with fine vermicu- 

 lations of brownish ; there is a lighter area on sides of caudal 

 peduncle. The fins are gray, specked and mottled with du,sky; a 

 broad submarginal band on caudal somewhat darker; a dark 

 splotch on anterior and posterior of soft dorsal; a black band at 

 base of caudal. The simple rays of the pecftorals are yellow, 

 banded with dusky; the branched rays have a dark area near their 

 base. The under surface of the pe(5t orals are yellowish white, with 

 a black band on the middle of the branched rays, and a black area 

 in the axis. The upper surface of the ventrals is almost uniform 

 brown tipped with white. Two specimens. Length 8-9 inches. 

 Honolulu, OcT:ober 19, 1901. Hab. Hawaiian Islands. 



* Dr. Jenkins' description of this species was received just as this MS. was going to 

 press. It was thought best to let the description go in, as there seems to be a few slight 

 variations in coloring, etc. 



