418 y-EJf FISHES FROM PACIFIC OCEAN— GILBERT .S' CRAMER, vol. xix. 



Color {in alcohol, scales nearly all off). — Back and upper x)art of sides 

 light brownish, with bhick lines at the edges of the fallen scales. Top 

 of head and snout dusky. Sides of head and lower three-fifths of trunk 

 and tail silvery. First dorsal fin blackish in the distal half; the other 

 fins a little dusky. Mouth cavity not dark; gill cavity a little dusky. 

 Peritoneum black. 



A second, smaller specimen differs from the type in having only .") 

 instead of 9 canines in each lower jaw, its depth is a little greater, orbit 

 larger, gill rakers a little shorter. Aside from some very slight differ- 

 ences in the proi)ortions, it agrees in even minutest details Avith the 

 type. 



In some respects close to Melanostoma Jap(micHm, Steindachner and 

 Doderlein, differing from it, among other characters, in its serrated ven- 

 tral spine, larger number of canine teeth, greater length of second 

 anal spine, in the color, the relative development of the two opercular 

 ridges, and the absence of black color in the mouth cavity. 



Two specimens, 3f and 5i inches long, from stations 3-472 and 347G; 

 295 and 298 fathoms, respectively. 



Ty2)e.—:So. 47V32, U.S.N.M. 



Family SCOEP.EXID.E. 



SCORP^NA REMIGERA, new species. 

 (Plato XL.) 



Head 2^ to 2.^; depth 24. D. XII, 10; A. Ill, 5; P. 21; Y. I-o; 

 lateral line 29 (pores), the number of scales mnch larger, not to be 

 exactly counted. 



Body ovate, deep, strongly compressed, its width 2| in its depth. 

 Least depth of the peduncle 4^ to 5 in greatest depth of body. Ilead 

 compressed, its width li in its greatest depth; its profile steep, nearly 

 straight. Bones of skull thin, cavernous. Orbit moderate, nearly cir- 

 cular, 4 in head. Interorbital space ilat, with a pair of prominent oval 

 mucous openings, and behind these a larger median triangular depres- 

 sion covered by a thin membrane. Snout about equal to orbit. Spines 

 of head small and sharp. Preorbital with three divergent spines, the 

 first directed forward, the second forward and downward, and the third 

 downward and backward. Suborbital stay rather prominent, cavern- 

 ous, with usually a minute spine near its posterior end. Small preocu- 

 lar, sui)raocular, occii)ital, and paroccipital si)ines present. Occipital 

 ridges thin but evident. Preoi)ercular spines divergent 5, the 3 upi)er 

 long and sharp, second usually longest, the 2 lower small or obsolete. 

 Opercle with two diverging ridges, the lower nearly horizontal, the 

 upper directed upward toward the tip of the opercular lobe, l)oth end- 

 ing in sharp spines. ^Mouth large, but little oblique, the tip of the 

 upper jaw about on a level with the lower rim of orbit; the maxillary 

 2 in head, reaching a little beyond pupil, its posterior end dilated, If iu 



