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Of this species a good figure and description luive been already oiven 

 in these Proceedings." 



This species is occasionally taken on the coast of Japan. It is known 

 to us only b}^ the types of Scorpsena onarui which were taken l)y 

 Professor Otaki in the market of Tokyo. 



{onari, an Emperor's journey; a fish tabu, or set aside, for the 

 Emperor.) 



31. SCORP^NA IZENSIS Jordan and Starks, new species. 



Head 2|^ to 2ir in length without caudal; depth 2f to 3^. Dorsal 

 Xll, 10; anal III, 6. Pores of lateral line 23; suborbital series of 

 scales above lateral line, 41. Eye li to li in head; maxillary 2^V; 

 interorbital 6 to 6^. 



Lower jaw usuall}'^ slightly projecting (scarcely projecting in type). 

 Symph3^seal knob large. Mouth large, the maxillary scarcely reach- 



FlG. 10. — SCORP.ENA IZENSIS. 



ing to below posterior rim of orbit. Teeth rather coarse, in moderate 

 bands on mandible and sides of premaxillaries, becoming very wide 

 on front of the latter, in ver}^ narrow ))ands on vomer and palatines. 

 Interorbital space wide and concave; as compared with its width much 

 more shallow than S. jivihrlata and S. onarla. The interorbital ridges 

 are rather high and have a channel between them. Cranial spines 

 high, but not ver}^ sharp. Nasal, preocular, superocular, postocular, 

 coronal, parietal, and nuchal spines present; behind upper posterior 

 margin of eye is a small bunch of 2 or 3 small spines, and behind it 

 are 2 low spines preceded by ridges; sul)orbital ridge with the spines 

 not set directl}^ in line, terminating in a double spine at edge of pre- 

 opercle, below which are 4 small preopercle spines, the upper 2 

 sharp, the lower 2 blunt; no spine at center of preorbital; 2 opercle 

 spines at the ends of diverging ridges, the lower ridge man}' times the 



«Pro(;. U. S. Nat. Miis., XXIII, 1900, p. 365. 



