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without the usual spines along the lower edge, rounded projections 

 at places where the two spines usually occur; a short spine on inter- 

 orbital ridge; concave notch at tip of premaxUlary and symphysial 

 knob at tip of lower jaw both small. 



Color in alcohol. — Brownish with the usual tendency for bars, one 

 at front of spiny dorsal, another at rear of that fin, a third below soft 

 dorsal, next at base of caudal fin and on caudal peduncle, with the 

 caudal fin barred; pelvics blackish with outer ray pale; pectoral with 

 basal central part of fin blackish, rest of fin pale or barred; first bar 

 has tendency to form a blackish basal spot on the first to fifth dorsal 

 spines. 













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^s ,n. 



Figure 142. — Scorpaenodes kelloggi (Jenkins), holotype, USNM 50694, from Honolulu 



Remarks. — There are some minor differences in color between 

 specimens from the Hawaiian Islands and the two smaller ones from 

 the Marshall Islands, but these differences may be the result of age 

 and size. UntU larger series for comparison are available, we propose 

 to consider the Marshall Island material as S. kelloggi. This species 

 has the fewest number of scales of this kind of fish examined. 



SCORPAENODES GUAMENSIS (Quoy andGaimard) 



Plate 125,C; Figure 138,g 



Scorpaena guamensis Quoy and Gaimard, Voyage autour du monde . . . sur . . . 



VUranie et la Physicienne, Zoologie, p. 326, 1824 (type locality, Guam). 

 Scorpaena polylepis Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl.-Indie, vol. 2, p. 173, 1851 



(type locality, Sumatra). 

 Scorpaena erinacea Garman, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 39, p. 231, pi. 1, fig. 2, 



1903 (type locality, Fiji Islands; holotype studied, MCZ 28313). 

 Sebastopsis scaber Ramsay and Ogilby, Rec. Australian Mus., vol. 9, No. 3, p. 387, 



pi. 13, fig. 2, 1913 (type locality, Sydney and Newcastle, New South Wales; 



Lord Howe Island). 



