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ity, 45 to 4S futhoms; 3715, same locality, 68 to 65 fathoms; 3717, 

 same locality, 63 to 100 fathoms; 3720, same locality, 63 fathoms; 

 3729, Omai Point, Totomi, 31 fatlioms; 3751, Sune Point, Sagami 

 Bay, 18 to 52 fathoms; 3756, same locality, 57 to 77 fathoms; 3763, 

 same locality, 19 to 52 fathoms; 3765, same locality, 6S to 15 fathoms. 



The typo is the largest specimen, 215 mm. in length; it is numbered 

 50909 in the U. S. National Museum. Cotypes are No. 7366, Leland 

 Stanford Junior Ichth3"ological Collection. 



(Izu, a province of Japan, occupying the promontory l)etween 

 Sagami and Suruga bays.) 



9. SCORPv^NOPSIS Heckel. 



Scorpfcnojx'ii.'i IIeckel, Ann. Wien. Mus., II, 1840, p. 159. 



Scorptenodcs Bleeker, Ind. Ned. Pise, IV, about 1S60, p. 452 {dlaholus). 



Scorjjsenichthys Bleeker, Bijdr. Ichth. Boero, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., XI, about 



1862, p. 402 {cirrhosuft, not of Girard). 



This genus differs from Scorpxna in the absence of palatine teeth. 

 The species are of still larger size and more peculiar appearance. 

 {(jKopTraiva^ Scorpffina; oi/ns, appearance.) 



a. Pectorals never reaching niuch beyond tips of ventrals, never to anal; cranial 

 spines entire; coloration greatly varied eJrrhosa, 32. 



an. Pectorals very long, reaching second anal spine; cranial spines much broken up 

 with serrations; coloration less elaborately varied kago.^himatia, .33. 



32. SCORPiENOPSIS CIRRHOSA (Thunberg). 



ONIKASAGO; ROKUBU (PILGRIM). 



Perca cirrhosa Thvsberg, 'Nya Handl., Stockliohn, XIV, 1793, p. 199, pi. vii, 

 fig. 2; near Nagasaki. 



Scorpama cirrhosa Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 1829, p. 318; 

 Jajjan, Coll. Langsdorff; Malabar. — Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 1843, 

 p. 42, pi. XVII, figs. 2, 3; Nagasaki. — Bleeker, Nieuwe Nalez., Japan, about 



1863, p. 79.— GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish, II, 1860, p. 120; China, Japan, Raoul 

 Island, Amboina. — Ishikawa, Prel. Cat., 1897, p. 50; Boshu. 



Scorpvmopsis cirrhosus Bleeker, Bydr. Ichth. Boero, Nat. Ned. Ind., XI, p. 402; 



Buru; Scorpaenoides, 1876, p. 32; Singapore, Ternate, Burn, Amboina. 

 ? Scorpiena lennina Richardson, Ichth. China, 1846, p. 216; Canton. 



Head 2| in length without caudal; depth 3. Dorsal XII, 10; anal 

 III, 6. Pores of lateral line 23. E^^e 6 in head. If in snout; maxil- 

 lary 21 in head; interor])ital width 1^ in orbit. 



Lower jaw projecting; no knob at symphysis. Mouth large; the 

 maxillary reaching to below posterior margin of orbit. Teeth rather 

 coarse; set in very wide bands. Interor])ital rather deeply concave; 

 the interorbital ridges high and sharp; not ending in spines behind; a 

 deep channel between them, divided anteriorly by a median ridge 

 running back from premaxillar}" process. Premaxillar}^ processes 

 very high, forming a deep notch in profile between them and raised 

 superorbital crests. Cranial spines large; nasal, preocular, superocu- 



