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orbital ridge equidistant from eye and maxillary, grooved, ending 

 in a small spine posteriorly; preopercular spines 4, moderate, the 

 upper of which lies just below and posterior to suborbital spine, 

 longest ; opercle ending in two strong, flat, divergent spines ; mouth 

 very large, horizontal ; maxillary reaching to below posterior border 

 of eye; jaws equal; broad bands of teeth on jaws, vomer and pala- 

 tines; pseudobranchiae large. Scales moderate, cycloid, those on 

 breast very small ; area under suborbital ridge and on opercle above 

 preopercular spine scaly, rest of head naked. Dorsal spines mod- 

 erate, the third longest, 2.9 in head, equal to longest dorsal ray; 

 caudal moderate, rounded, 2 in head ; anal spines stout, second long- 

 est, equal to longest dorsal spine ; anal rays long, 2.33 ; ventrals mod- 

 erate, reaching anus, a little over 2 in head; pectoral broad, of 20 

 rays, the first and 12 lower rays unbranched. the lower rays some- 

 what thickened, length 1.48 in head. 



Color in alcohol, head dark reddish brown, darkest on opercle; 

 ventral surface on head creamy, tinged in places with rosy; back 

 and sides brownish red, becoming creamy white on belly ; sides with 

 traces of four wide indistinct cross-bars; ventrals color of belly, 

 dusky at tips, other fins mottled; two dark mottled cross bands on 

 caudal and three on pectoral. 



This species is closely related to Scorpaena pannosa Cramer, from 

 Panama. 



Panama to Juan Fernandez and Galapagos Archipelago. 



Genus PONTINUS Poey. 



16S. PONTINUS DUBIUS Steiiidachner. 



PUNAL. 



Pontinus duhius Steindachner, Herpet.-ichthyol., Ergebnisse elner Relse 

 nach Siidamerika, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wlen., vol. 72, 1902, p. 36, 

 pi. 3, fig. 1; Paita, Peru. 



One example. No. 09549, 16.1 cm. long, from Paita, the type locality 

 of the species. 



As stated by Steindachner, this species is very close to P. furci- 

 rhinus Garman and needs comparison with the type of that species. 

 The individuals from Paita are slenderer, have the greatest depth 

 of body at origin of dorsal, and present certain minor differences 

 which may not be apparent when compared with a larger number 

 of individuals. 



Head 2.26 in length; depth 3.23; eye equaling snout, which is 

 3.63 in head; maxillary 2, reaching to below posterior border of 

 orbit; interorbital narrow, deeply concave, its width 2.35 in orbit; 

 pectoral base nearly equal to orbit in breadth, its length 1.39 in 

 head; pectoral rays 18, simple, projecting beyond membrane; ven- 



