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protruded above in upper profile of head. Mouth rather small, low, 

 lower jaw shallow and little protruded in front. Teeth obsolete. 

 Maxillary greatly expanded behind. Interorbital deeply concave. 

 Gill rakers short low tubercles. Scales small, smooth, adherent. 

 Lateral line complete, axial, with rather large tubes. Head and body 

 with skinny flaps. Fin rays simple. Two dorsals, separating notch 

 deep and front rays of first fin highest. Anal opposite soft dorsal, 

 base little shorter. Caudal rather long, lower rays longest. Pec- 

 toral large. Ventral inserted well before pectoral, smaller. 



Resembles Taenianotus Lacepede, but with much deeper body, very 

 diiferent physiognoni}', well -separated dorsals, and advanced ventrals. 



(iTTTTos, horse + Scorpae 7ia.) 



H.W.F.del. 



Figure 31. — Hipposcorpaena filamentosa, new genus, new species. Type. 



HIPPOSCORPAENA FILAMENTOSA, new species 

 Figure 31 



Depth 21/4; head 2\\q^ width 2i/2. Snout l%o "^ head from snout 

 tip ; eye 614, 314 ii^ snout, greater than interorbital ; maxillary not quite 

 reaching opposite front eye edge, expansion 3 in snout, length 2% in 

 head from snout tip; interorbital IV5 in eye; preopercle edge w^ith 4 

 divergent spines, upper 2 largest. Gill rakers 6+11 low spinescent 

 tubercles, about half of gill filaments, which half of eye. 



Scales about 30 counted along lateral line to caudal base; tubes 22 

 in lateral to caudal base and 2 more on latter; 6 scales above, 15 below. 

 No distinct scales on head. Supraorbital flap simple, little longer 

 than eye. Close along and above lateral line row of 8 rather long 

 cutaneous flaps. 



