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SCORPAENAiTIERRAE, new species 



Figure 84 



Head 2.4, 2.5; depth 2.9, 3.0; D. XII, 10, XII, 10; A. Ill, 5, III, 5; 



P. 20, 20; scales 46, 48. 



Body moderately compressed, its greatest thickness fully three- 

 fourths its depth; head rather broader than deep at margins of pre- 

 opercles; caudal peduncle strongly compressed, 3.7, 4.0 in head; 

 snout very broad, its width at posterior end of maxillaries fully 

 equal to length of snout and eye, its length 3.5, 4.0 in head; eye 4.75, 

 4.4; interorbital deeply concave, 6.25, 6.0, or 1.2, 1.35 in eye; mouth 

 very broad, nearly terminal; lower jaw included, no knob at tip; 

 maxillary rather broad, reaching below middle of eye, 2.0, 1.9 in 

 head; teeth small pointed, in a band on each jaw, as well as on vomer 

 and palatines, the band in each jaw narrowly separated on median 

 line, not especially broadened or developed as a knob opposite the 

 median separation; the bands on palatines as broad as those on jaws; 





Figure 84. — Scorpaena tierrae, new species. From the type, 175 mm. long, Lobes de 

 Tierra Bay, Peru (U.S.N.M. No. 128128). 



occipital pit shallow, scarcely longer than broad; a weU developed 

 elongate pit under front of eye; spines^* on head rather low; nasal 

 spine well developed; pre-, supra-, and postocular spines low, blunt; 

 tympanic, parietal, and nuchal spines also rather low and blunt; 

 a low double spine behind eye, followed by a larger spine; scapular 

 region with 5 or 6 low spines; 2 flat spines on shoulder girdle above 

 base of pectoral, the upper one more or less covered with skin; pre- 

 orbital with 3 spines, the first directed forward, the second a mere 

 knob, the thnd directed downward; suborbital stay prominent, with 

 3 evident spines, and a small one at lower anterior margin of pit under 

 eye; preopercle with 6 spines, the second from above largest, those 



«< For names of spines and their general position see insert of fig. 86. 



