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spinous dorsal dusky and soft dorsal with broad dusky black anterior 

 area, apex white and rest of fin pale. Caudal in young with blackish 

 blotch on each lobe terminally and each blotch well separated with 

 distinct whitish edges. 



Japan and Philippines, from which latter locality we have no 

 examples. The above description from Japanese examples in the 

 U. S. National Museum received from Dr. H. M. Smith and the 

 Japanese Government, 153 to 392 mm. 



Genus CENTROGENYS Richardson 



Cenlrogenys Richardson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 9, 1842, p. 120. Type 



Centropristis scorpenoides Cuvier, monotypic. 

 Myriodon Barneville, Rev. Zool. (Soc. Cuvier.), 1847, p. 133. Type Scor- 



paena vaigiensis Quoy and Gaimard, monotypic. 

 Gennadius Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 (1907), p. 37. 



Type Sebastes stoliczkae Day, monotypic. 

 Rhabdosebastes Fowler and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas., vol. 62, 1922, p. 



60. Type Sebastes stoliczkae Day, orthotypic. 



Body compressed. Mouth large and protractile. Maxillary exposed 

 with supplemental bone. Jaws with bands of villiform teeth; 

 vomer and palatines with teeth; tongue smooth. Front nostril with 

 fringed tentacle. Preopercle serrated, with strong antrorse spines on 

 lower edge. Opercle with strong spine. Gill membranes separate. 

 Pseudobranchiae present. Gill rakers very short. Branchiostegals 

 7. Lower pharyngeals united. Vertebrae 25, of which 14 caudal. 

 Scales rather large, strongly ciliated. Head scaly, maxillary and 

 mandible naked. Lateral line complete, tubes with ascending tubule 

 extending to end of scale. Dorsal with 13 or 14 spines, rays 9 to 11, 

 spinous part much longer than soft, which scaly basally. Anal with 

 3 spines and 5 rays, scaly basally. Caudal rounded. Pectoral with 

 13 or 14 rays, rounded, subsymmetrical. Ventral with strong spine, 

 placed behind pectoral base. 



Eastern Indian and Western Pacific Oceans. This genus and its 

 genotype have so great a superficial resemblance to certain small 

 scorpaenoids that they have repeatedly been referred to them. 



CENTROGENYS VAIGIENSIS (Quoy and Gaimard) 



Scorpaena vaigiensis Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, Zool., 1824, p. 324, 

 pi. 58, fig. 1. Waigiu. 



Myriodon waigiensis Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 175 

 (Port Essington, Freycinet's Harbour, Australia). — Knee, Reise Novara, 

 Zool., vol. 1, pt. 5, 1S65, p. 38 (Singapore).— Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. 

 Neerland., vol. 7, 1873-76, pi. (19) 297, fig. 1.— Gunther, Rep. Voy. 

 Challenger, vol. 1, 18S0, p. 38 (between New Guinea and Australia). — 

 Karoli, Termesz. Fuzetek, Budapest, vol. 5, 1882, p. 150 (Singapore). — 

 Meyer, Anal. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., Madrid, vol. 14, 1885, p. 10 

 (Cebu). — Day, Fishes of India, Suppl., 1888, p. 747 (correction); Fauna 

 Brit. India, vol. 1, 1S89, p. 461, fig. 145. — Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 

 1, 1895, p. 464 (Cebu). 



