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C'psiosoma. — ;S'. rcquiphniis and »S'. lineolatus have been 

 sepai'ated from Scorpis under tlie name Ccesiosoma, but the}'- 

 appear to me to be congeneric with S. georgianus ; the only- 

 major difference between these species lies in the general 

 form of the body, which is scarcely of generic value. 

 According to Troschell'', the name Vivsiosoma was proposed 

 for a Japanese fish which had no specific name: Bleeker^ 

 later called it G. sieholdi, which name should apparently stand 

 as the type of the genus, and which he regarded as probably 

 synonymous with C. (equipinnis. I am indebted to Professor 

 D. S. Jordan for a copy of Bleeker's definition, and he notes 

 that he knows of no fish of this type from Japan. It there- 

 fore appears that CUesiosoma sieholdi is not a Japanese fish 

 but is synonymous with Scorpis cequijjiwnis, and that Ccesiosoma 

 is not distinct from Scorpis. 



Scorpis georgianus, Cnvier and Valenciennes. 



Scorpis georgianus, Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. 

 Poiss., viii., 1831, p. 503, pi. ccxlv. Id., Richardson, 

 Ichth. " Erebus and Terror," 1848, p. 121. Id., 

 Giinther, Biit. Mus. Cat. Fish., ii., 1860, p. 64. Id., 

 Klunzinger, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, lxxx. i., 1879, 

 p. 364. Id., Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, v., 

 1881, p. 397. Id., Johnston, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1882 

 (1883), p. Ill, and 1890 (1891), p. 30. Id., Waite, Rec. 

 Austr. Mus., vi., 1905, p. 64. 



D. X./24-25. A. iii/25-26. P. 16-17. V. i./5. C. 17. 

 Body elevated, the depth before the anal fin 1.6-1.8 in the 

 length to tlie hypural joint ; head 3.3-3.4 in the same. Eye 

 3.6-3.8 in the head. Second dorsal ray 0.07-1.2 longer than 

 the head. Second anal ray about as long as the head. Profile 

 maikedly convex above the eye. Mandible long and narrow, 

 reaching to below the middle of the pupil, and scarcely 

 broader than its distance from the eye. Outer row of teeth 

 much larger than the others. Scales rather small, about 

 eighty-five series above the lateral line between its origin 

 and the hypural joint ; about twenty scales between the 



7 Troschell- Arch. Naturg., 1863. 



8 Bleeker- Arch. Neerl. Sc. Nat., xi., 187fi, p. 299, and Verb. Akad, 

 Amsterdam, xviii., 1879, p. 8. 



