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to the maxillary; snout bluntly pointed. 2 in the eye; nostrils directly' 

 in front of the eye, and the posterior y(My large; mouth inclined, the 

 maxillary expanded distally till it is l^f in the eye, and reaching below 

 the first two-thirds of the eye; teeth in fine, roughened bands in the 

 jaws; the lips rather thick and fleshy; the lower jaw projects but little; 

 interorbital space concaye aboye and ecjual to about three-fifths the 

 eye; bones on the head rough, striated, and with the edges serrated;] 

 two opercular spines; preoperculum with its lower angle with a strong 

 backward spine; fiye rows of scales on the cheeks; preorbital spine • 

 strong; gill-opening large; gill-rakers T-flO, rather short and most of' 

 them poorly deyeloped. Dorsal before the edge of the gill-opening; 

 and the pectoral, the third and fourth spines the highest; soft dorsal I 

 highest in front and nearly as high as the spinous dorsal; third anali 



Fig. 3. — HoLorENTRiT,s spinosissimu:^ 



spine yery strong and long, though not as long as the longest rays, 

 which are in front; pectoral a trifle shorter than the yentral, and a))out 

 equal to the third anal spine; yentrals a little behind pectorals and 

 with their ti})s reaching for nearly two-thirds the space between their 

 bases and the origin of the anal; caudal emarginate, the lobes distinct; 

 rudimentary caudal rays seyeral and deyeloped as graduated spines i 

 aboye and below; lateral lines inclosed from the head to the base of 

 the caudal; caudal peduncle compressed, about two-thirds the eye. 



Color plain brown in alcohol, with traces of H longitudinal silyery 

 bands, and the cheeks and opercles silyery. Length 7 inches. Here 

 described from two examples from Wakanoura. 



Color in life brilliant scarlet, \vith white stripes, one stripe extending 

 obliquely below the eye. 



