ADDENDA 106. SCORPA2NIDA]: — SCORPA^NA. 
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pectorals in tliis s])ecies are subtriincate, the lower rays somewhat 
exserted. The group called by Poey “Pontiwws” is not of this type, 
but allied rather to Scorpwna proper. 
Page C81. Scorpccna porens should probably be erased, its occurrence 
in our waters being very doubtful. The following species has been, 
perhaps, mistaken for it : 
103§ (h). S. stearnsi Goode & Bean. 
Dusky olivaceous, whitish below; head with some dark blotches and 
small spots; back and sides with diffuse blackish blotches; body 
sparsely covered with round dusky spots, smaller than pu})il ; tlu‘se 
spots most numerous and distinct in the axillary region, which is other- 
wise whitish; spinous dorsal marbled, with a median dusky band; its 
base whitish, with black spots; soft dorsal and anal irregularly mar- 
bled; caudal with a broad median and a terminal band of blackish ; pec- 
torals mottled and banded ; ventrals dusky at tip. Body robust, little 
compressed, tapering posteriorly. Mouth moderate, oblique, the jaws 
equal, the lower with a small symphyseal knob; maxillary 2 in head, 
reaching to below posterior margin of orbit. Preorbital with two di- 
verging spines; suborbital without deep pit, its stay low, armed with 
two small spines; nasal spines inconspicuous; interorbital space deeply 
concave, with 2 longitudinal ridges, its width f diameter of eye. 
Cranial ridges rather low, moderately sharp; the following pairs- 
present: jireocular, supraocular, postocular, coronal, occipital, nuchal, 
besides 3 on the temi)oral region, arranged in a right line behind the 
eye. Occipital pit deep, a little broader than long. Preopercular 
spines 5, the two lower blunt and short, the upper much the longest, 
half as long as the eye; a small spine at its base. Supraocular flap very 
small, trilobate, shorter than pupil (much larger in a young examj)le, ap- 
parently of the same species, in which its length is about half head). 
Small dermal flaps elsewhere on head. Opercular flap scaly; a few ru- 
dimentary scales on cheeks and front of opercle. Breast with small 
scales. Gill-rakers short and thick. Scales large, smooth, with meur- 
branous edges; a series of dermal flaps along the lateral line and at 
the dorsal base. Dorsal spines slender, the longest times in head; 
longest soft ray half as long as head; caudal subtruncate, 1-? in head. 
Anal spines small, the second and third equal, 2| in head. Longest 
soft ray of anal half as long as head. Ventrals If in head. Pectorals 
reaching soft rays of anal, the longest ray slightly shorter than head; 
