8o Fishes of the South Pacific. 



Scorpaenopsis quiescens Seale, new species. 



Depth 3; head 2.50; eye 3.50; D. xiii, 19; A. iii, 5; P. iS,: 

 V. I, 5; interorbital space concave, equal to the snout. 



Body compressed, its greatest depth is between the first and 

 fifth dorsal spines; lateral line complete, the tubules prominent; 

 depth of the caudal peduncle equal to the orbit. Head large, 

 slightly compressed and well armed with spines distributed as fol- 

 lows: three on the upper rim of orbit, one just above the posterior 

 rim of orbit, four on the nuchal region , three on a line with the 

 posterior end of the lateral line, two on the posterior margin of the 

 opercles, four which constitute the bony stay across the cheeks, 

 the posterior one of these four is a large one on the preopercle, 

 and has two spines below it; there is a blunt spine on the sub- 

 orbital overhanging the premaxillary; there are several dermal 

 flaps, the largest one is branched and situated over the anterior 

 nostril; snout short and rather blunt; lips equal; maxillary reach- 

 ing to below the posterior margin of orbit, 1.90 in head, its distal 

 end 1.50 in orbit; teeth in villiform bands on jaws and vomer, 

 none on the palatines. Fins: the notch of the dorsal fin is one-half 

 the depth of the fin, the fifth dorsal spine is the longest, 2.20 in 

 head; second anal spine longest and strongest, 1.60 in head; pec- 

 torals 1.60 in head; length of ventrals and caudal equal. 



Color: the fish is mottled all over with yellowish brown, and 

 white, a dusky clotch on upper part of opercles. Fins colored 

 like the bod}'. 



One specimen, No. 1352 (Fig. 2, No. 783*) B. M., from Tahiti. 

 Length 3.50 in. 



Sebastapistes strongensis (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



Two specimens, Nos. 1054 and 1055 B. M., from Fate, New 

 Hebrides. Doubtfully referred to this species. 



Sebastapistes guamensis (Quoj^ & Gaimard). 



One specimen. No. 1524 B. M., from Tahiti. 



One specimen. No. 2380 B. M., from Nukuhiva, Marquesas Ids. 



Two specimens, Nos. 1014* and 1016* B. M., from Fate, New 

 Hebrides. 



Two specimens, Nos. 1196 and 1223 B. M., from Shortland 

 Id., vSolomons. 



Sebastapistes baillieui (Vaillant & Sauvage). 



One specimen. No. 2379 B. M., from Nukuhiva, Marquesas Ids. 

 Rather doubtfully identified. 



Genus Deleastes Seale, new genus. 



This genus, typified by D. d(ecto7\ is related to Synanceia, be- 

 ing distinguished by the much smaller ventrals, situated more 



