1836 Bulletin //, United States National Miiseum. 



Dorsal tliin aud moderately deeply notched; caudal rounded; third anal 

 spine greater than second; pectoral with ui3per rays branched; lower or 

 simple rays thickened and the upper of them longer than any of the 

 branched rays. Color light olive, irregularly banded and blotched with 

 darker; flushed with cherry red; suboperole with large black Idotch 

 somewhat ocellated; head blotched with olive and paler; jaws and throat 

 largely orange ; dorsal mottled with blood-red, orange and whitish; pale 

 yellowish liar across soft dorsal, then a blackish streak; rest of flns white, 

 tipped with black; caudal largely l)right scarlet, black toward tip; anal 

 largelj^ scarlet, mottled with black ; pectoral yellowish, barred with white 

 aud black, lower part of fm washed with scarlet; ventral light yellow, 

 with a few black sjiots on posterior half, and scarlet sjiots on anterior 

 portion. The most definite marks are a dark bar from soft dorsal to base 

 of anal, everywhere washed with scarlet, and the Itlack spot on the sub- 

 opercle. Pacific coast of Mexico and ueighl)oring islands; the original 

 types from Cape San Lucas, a few other specimens taken l»y the Albatross 

 oft' Lower California, the above notes on the color from specimens col- 

 lected by Mr. McGregor at Socorro Island, respectively 3^, 2^, aud 2 

 inches long. (?u/3c5k, razor, from the sharp spines.) 



Sebastopsis xyris, Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 309, Cape San Lucas. 

 (Type, No. 3U970. Coll. John Xantus.) 



692. HELICOLENUS, Goode & Bean. 



Helicolcnus, Goode & Bean, Oceanic Iclith., 248, 1896 {dactylopterus) . 



Body oblong, somewhat compressed; head large, ctenoid scales on its 

 tip, and on cheeks and opercles; several series of spinous ridges on head, 

 but no occipital pit; mouth large, with bands of villiform teeth on jaws, 

 vomer, and palatines. Dorsal fin continuous, not deeply notched, with 

 10 stout spines and 10 to 12 rays; anal with 3 spines and 6 rays; pecto- 

 ral broad, fan-shaped, with rays arranged in 3 groups, the first of 2 sim- 

 ple rays, the second of 8 or 9 branched rays, the third of 8 simple rays, 

 sometimes prolonged, with their tips tendril-like and free from memliraue 

 for i their length or less; soft dorsal with tips free from membrane; 

 suborbital keel smooth, or with a single anterior spine under eye; pre- 

 orbital with sjiines small and hidden Ijeneath the skin. Vertebne 10 + 

 14 = 24; no air bladder. Atlantic. Very close to /Scoj-jjartrt, differing only 

 in the Sehastes-like cranium, the two genera probably connected by inter- 

 mediate forms. ()/A/«o5, strong; fyAf'j'?/, elbow, arm.) 



«. General color bright red. dacttlopterus, 2234. 



aa. General color clear scarlet; preopercular spines more prominent, parallel. 



MAUEKENSIS, 2235. 



