106. SCORPiENID^ SCORP^NA. 679 
a. Cheeks, opercles, breast, and usually top of head scaly; no pit at the occijjut; 
aspect of Sehastodes. (Pontinus* Poey. ) 
b. Dermal flaps none ; pectoral fin not procurrent ; no exoccipital spines. 
1035. S. dactyloptcra De la Roche. 
Color delicate scarlet red, the opercle and dorsal fin somewhat 
mottled with brownish. Body not much elevated, little compressed, 
the tail slender. Head large, little compressed; cheeks, opercles, and 
occipital region well scaled; no dermal flaps anywhere; snborbital stay 
strong. Month rather large, with teeth as usual on jaws, vomer, and 
palatines; lower jaw not projecting; maxillary extending to beyond 
jnipil. Snborbital with a narrow raised smooth ridge, which ends in a 
spine at the base of the stay ; preorbital narrow, its edge slightly spi- 
nous; interorbital space narrow, with two parallel raised ridges and a 
deep groove. Cranial ridges short, sharp, about as in Sehastodes rosa- 
ceus; preocnlar, supraocular, postocular, tympanic, occipital, and nu- 
chal spines present; suiirascapular spines sharp; no exoccipitals ; oper- 
cular spines moderate; preopercular spines sharp, the second longest. 
Eye very large, 3 in head. Jaws naked. Gill-rakers rather long and 
slender. Pectoral very narrow for a Seor])(cna^ the rays not jirocurrent 
below nor thickened, reaching anal; ventrals small, reaching past vent; 
anal small and low, its second spine a little stouter but not longer thau 
third; dorsal low, little emarginate, the spines slender. Scales ctenoid, 
regularly arranged ; no accessory scales. Head Si; depth 2f. D. XII^ 
12; A. Ill, 5; Lat. 1. 43. Deep water off Chesapeake Bay; described 
from a specimen lately taken by the U. S. Pish Commissiou. It is pro- 
visionally identified with S. daetyloptera, of the Mediterranean and Ma- 
deira Islands, but it is probably a species distinct from the latter, 
although closely related. 
(De la Rocbe, Ann. Mus. xiii, 1809, pi. 22, f. 2: Sebastes daciyloyterus Giintber, ii, 
99: Sebastes imperiaJis C. & V. iv, 336.) 
aa. Cheeks, opercles, and top of head naked; dermal flaps present; pectorals pro- 
current, a cpiadrate ijit at the occiput. {Scorpwna.) 
c. Breast scaly. (Pamscorpccaa Bleeker.) 
1036. S. guttata Grd. — Scorpene; Scorpion; ScuJpin. 
Brown, irregularly mottled and blotched with rosy puriilish and pale 
olive ; opercles and cheeks, a bar behind eye, and 5 or 6 large blotches 
at base of dorsal, purplish; head, back, and sides with many small 
*Poey, Memorias Cuba, ii, 172, 1860: tjpe Pontinus castor Pony. (Latin, pows, bridge; 
“si I’idee d’nu pout form6 par les trois premiers sous-orbitaires pent couteuter les 
^tymologistes j’eu serai bieu aise; j’ai ddja dit que les noms les plus savants ne sout 
pas les meilleurs.” Poey.) 
