716 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
375 .— MELLETES Bean. 
(Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Miis. 1879, 354: type Melleics papUio Bean.) 
Body moderately elongate. Ilead broad, dejn’essed, rounded in front, 
naked, with several cutaneous flaps; jaws, vomer, and palatines with 
bands of villiform teeth; preopercular spines simple, rather strong; 
gill membranes broadly connected, free from the isthmus; a slit behind 
the last gill; a narrow band of ctenoid scales along sides of back, 
meeting in front of dorsal; a few prickles on anterior parts of body, 
and some small dermal flaps on sides; skin otherwise naked; dorsals 
connected; the spinous dorsal long, not emargiuate; pectorals well de- 
veloped, the rays all simple; veutrals very long, I, 4, the inner surface 
of the rays armed with stiff setie; pyloric cceca G; no air-bladder. 
Alaska. (/aTjA/TjTTjc, a loiterer; remaining in shallow pools as the tide 
recedes.) 
1100. M. papilio Bean. 
Grayish brown, with darker bands and various mottlings; belly 
grayish, with round white spots; fins all much mottled and barred, 
i^asal spines obtuse; 2 spines above posterior part of orbits, and 2 on 
the vertex, the last four with short filaments. Veutrals 2 in length, 
longer than pectorals, extending to the seventh anal ray (c?). Head 
4; depth 2|. D. XII, 20; A. 17; P. 17; Y. I, 4. L. 7 inches. Saint 
Paul’s Island, Alaska. 
(Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 18/9, 354.) 
376 .— SCOKP.EiliBCHTHVS Girard, 
(Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1854, 131: type Hemitripierus marmorat us Ayres.) 
Body rather robust, covered with smooth, thick skin. Head large, 
somewhat comj)ressed, its upper surface rugose. Mouth rather large, 
with villiform teeth on jaws, vomer, and palatines; gill-membranes 
broadly united, free from the isthmus; a large slit behind fourth gill; 
preopercular spines small, simple ; spinous dorsal long, scarcely emar- 
ginate, but slightly depressed near its middle, the first four spines 
shorter than those immediately following; ventral flns large, I, 5. Size 
large. Pacific Ocean. [(T/.op-acva, Scorpmua; fish.) 
1101. S. marmoratiis (Ayres) Grd. 
Olive brown, thickly mottled with dark blotches and light spots, and 
reticulated with different shades of green and brown; sides with 5 irreg- 
ular, dark, vertical blotches, of which two are under each dorsal and 
