1852 Btilletin //, United States National Mtiscum. 



were dredged at a depth of 33 fathoms nt Alhatross Stations 2795 and 2797. 

 (Jordan &, Bollmau.) (rmsidus, reddish.) 



Scorpoma russula, Jordan & Bollman, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1889, ICD, Pacific coast of 

 Colombia. (Type, No. 41160. CoW. Albatross.) 



2246. SCORPiENA SOIVOR.E, Jenkius & Evenuann. 



Head 2^ (3 in total) ; depth 3^ (4^) ; eye 3 in head. D. XII, 10; A. Ill, 5; 

 scales 6-47-15. Body oblong, slightly compressed ; back not greatly ele- 

 vated; profile gently arched from snout to origin of first dorsal, and but 

 little conA'ex from there to caudal fin; ventral profile nearly straight to 

 origin of anal, where it makes a broad angle with line to base of caudal. 

 Head large, little compressed. Month large, oblique; maxillary large, 

 triangular, 2J in head, extending to posterior margin of pupil ; premaxilla- 

 rios with a deep sinus at the middle of their anterior margin into which fits 

 the slightly projecting lower jaw. Occiput having no distinct pit; no 

 pit between the lower anterior margin of the orbit and suborbital stay. 

 Teeth in villiform bands on jaws, vomer, and palatines. Suborbital with 

 a sharp ridge bearing 3 small spines, these in a line with a strong spine 

 on the preopercle; nasal spines small, with a prominence between them 

 made by the upper posterior tips of the premaxillaries ; the preopercular 

 spine the largest ; the supraocular ridge with 2 small spines a little behind 

 middle of eye; on the upper posterior margin of the orbit a strong tuber- 

 cle rising into 3 small spines from which a well-developed occipital I'idge 

 extends backward, ending in a sharp spine ; tympanic spines quite small ; 

 coronal ridges quite prominent, with at least 3 distinct spines on each ; 

 nuchal spines well developed ; opercle with 2 strong ridges, both begin- 

 ning at the same point on a level with the pupil and at a distance from it 

 equaling diameter of eye, the lower one running nearly horizontally back- 

 ward across the opercle, while the upper and weaker one diverges from it 

 at an angle of about 30 degrees and extends to the lateral line ; the length 

 of each of these ridges equaling diameter of eye, both ending in spines; 

 five preopercular sjiines, the uppermost much the largest, in a line 

 with the suborbital ridge, and with a very small spine on its ridge near the 

 middle; the second, or next spine below, is very short and inconspicuous; 

 the third short and broad and projecting slightly downward; the fourth 

 smaller than third and inclined still more downward; while the fifth 

 is still smaller and projects nearly at right angle with the first; sub- 

 orbital ridge prominent, bearing 2 small spines, the anterior one directly 

 Ijeneath the pupil, the other at anterior edge of preopercle. Origin of 

 spinous dorsal a little in front of opercular flap, its distance from snout 3 

 in body to base of caudal; first spine short, less than snout in length; 

 second spine equaling eye; third equaling distance from tip of snout to 

 middle of pupil; fourth, fifth, and sixth each a little longer; the remain- 

 ing 4 gradually shorter, the eleventh about as long as first, thus making 

 the fin emarginate ; all rather strong and pungent; the next spine slen- 

 der, greater than eye in length; distance from base of dorsal to caudal 

 not eciualiug height of the former; anal moderate, its height a little 



