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Subfamily Sebastinae 

 Genus HOPLOSEBASTES Schmidt 



HOPLOSEBASTES PRISTIGENYS, new species 

 FiGUKE 19 



Depth 278 1 head 214, width 1%. Snout 3% in head from snout 

 tip; eye 4%, 1% in snout, greatly exceeds interorbital ; maxillary, 

 reaches 1/0 in eye, expansion fi/o in eye, length 1% hi head from 

 snout tip; teeth minutely villiform, in bands in jaws, of which upper 

 band little wider; narrow band of fine teeth on vomer; interorbital 

 6^, deeply concave, with deep median longitudinal channel. Gill 

 rakers 6+11, lanceolate, 4 or 5 above and below rudimentary; length 

 1% in gill filaments, which 3 in eye. 



H.W.F.del. 



Figure 19. — Hoplosebastes pristigenys, new species. Type. 



Pair of nasal spines; 2 small anterosupraorbital spines each side, 

 with posterior larger, then serrated edge of 5 points (entire on right 

 supraorbital), followed by 2 postero-supraorbital spines (left double, 

 right single), pair of coronals, pair of occipitals and finally pair of 

 nuchals; 3 preorbital, median closer to posterior and both directed 

 backward; suborbital stay with 8 spines (right stay with 12); 4 

 preopercular spines, upper largest, next below minute ; 3 postoculars, 

 first small, others large and finally large double pronged supra- 

 scapular; 2 wide set opercular spines, opposite; strong humeral spine. 



Scales 50 + 4 close above and along lateral line; tubular scales 

 26 + 4 in lateral line; 9 scales above, 14 below; 12 predorsal forward 

 to occipital spines; 5 postocular scales. Head largely covered with 

 small ctenoid scales, except muzzle and branchiostegal region. Small 

 scales crowded on breast, prepectoral region, caudal base and belly. 



