FAMILY CLINIDAE — SCHULTZ 293 



Remarks. — After considerable hesitation and reluctance, because of 

 the confusion occasioned by the number of species referred to Trip- 

 terygion, it was found necessary to add yet another species to this 

 inadequately defined group. 



T. brachylepis, new species, with IV spines in first dorsal, with 

 scales on head and on base of pectoral, differs from the following 

 species of Tripterygion, which have III spines in first dorsal and naked 

 head and no scales on the breast: annulatum Ramsay and Ogilby 

 1887 ; atriceps Jenkins 1903 ; atrogulare Giinther 1873 ; callionymi Weber 

 1909 and 1913; clarkei Morton 1888; cerasinus Jordan and Scale 1906; 

 ellioti Herre 1944; etheostoma Jordan and Snyder 1902 (partly scaled 

 hresist) ; fasciatum Weber 1909 and 1913; hemimelas Kner and Stein- 

 dachner 1866; minutus Giinther 1876; pardochir Jordan and Scale 

 1906; punctatus Herre 1935; pusiUus Riippell 1835; segmentatum Mc- 

 Culloch and Phillipps 192S ; sexmaculatus Fowler 1941 ; tusitalae Jordan 

 and Scale 1906; tutuilae Jordan and Scale 1906; waigiensis Herre 1935. 

 Slastenenko (Compte Rend. Acad. Sci. U. R. S. S. vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 

 153-156, 1936) refers the following species, which are also Tripterygion, 

 to the synonymy of tripteronotus Risso 1810: nasus Risso 1826; mela- 

 nurus Guichenot 1850; melanocephalum Cocco 1829; nikolskii Maxi- 

 mov 1909. 



The following species of Tripterygion have III spines in first dorsal 

 (but nothing is said about scales on head, breast or pectoral base, 

 and it is assumed there were none): ohtusirostre Klunzinger 1871; 

 striaticeps Ramsay and Ogilby 1888. 



The following species of Trypterygion with III spines in first dorsal, 

 have scaly breasts but no scales on head or pectoral fin base: hapturum 

 Jordan and Snyder 1902; bucephalus McCuUoch and W^aite 1918; and 

 etheostoma Jordan and Snyder 1902 (breast only partly scaled). Trip- 

 terygion macleayanum Lucas 1891 has III spines in first dorsal and a 

 scaly head, but no mention is made of scales on breast or pectoral 

 base. Gillias jordani Evermann and Marsh 1899 =Enneapterygius 

 pectoralis Fowler 1941; and Enneapterygius corallicola Kendall and 

 Radcliffe, has scales on head, breast, and pectoral fin bases but only 

 III spines in the first dorsal fin. 



This leaves but two species normally with IV spines in the first 

 dorsal fin. Both of these, from New Zealand, T. hucknilli Griflin 

 1926 and T. segmentatum McCuUoch and Phillipps 1923, have naked 

 heads, breast and pectoral fin bases. Thus we are unable to find any 

 named species referable to this genus with IV spines in first dorsal, 

 scaly head, breast and pectoral fin base. 



The species closest to T. brachylepis are corallicola, jordani, and 

 probably macleayanum; but jordani has only 6 or 7 soft dorsal rays, 



