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present on some of the larger head spines. Maxillary large, 

 reaching backwards to below the hinder third, or almost to the 

 hinder margin of the eye. Teeth minute, in a band on each jaw 

 and on the vomer; palatines toothless. 



Most of the scales strongly ctenoid, only those of the chest 

 eycloid. The lateral line is almost straight; there are twenty- 

 four pores. along its length, each ending in a minute spine, and 

 about forty-four rows of scales. The scales extend on to the 

 bases of the soft dorsal, anal, pectoral and caudal tins. 



The sixth and seventh dorsal spines are the longest, as long 

 as or shorter than the eye ; the rays are higher than the spines, 

 the median ones longest. Second anal spine very long and 

 strong, as long as the rays which are much longer than those of 

 the dorsal. Pectoral reaching to above the anal spines, the 

 lower nine or ten simple and thickened. Ventrals inserted in 

 advance of the pectorals, not reaching backwards to the vent. 

 Caudal rounded. 



Colour. — Reddish or pink, with brown markings on the head 

 and upper half of the body. Fins spotted with carmine in 

 fresh examples, colourless in preserved specimens. 



Described from fourteen examples, including the types, 35-71' 

 mm. long from the snout to the hypural. They were obtained 

 near Sydney and Newcastle, New South Wales, and Lord 

 Howe Island. 



Sebastopsis guamensis, Quoy and Gaimard. 



Scorpeena guamensis, Gunther, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, ii., 1873- 

 5, p. 74, pi. 1 v i . , fig. 13. 



Sebastopsis guamensis, Jordan and Scale, Bull . I*. S. Pish. Bur., 

 xxv., 1906, p. '674. 



r Sebastopsis scabra, Jordan and Seale, Loc, fit., fig, 71 (nee 

 Sf. seaber, Ramsay and Ogilbv ) 



The fish figured by Jordon and Seale as N. scabra is not that 

 species, though very closely allied to it. Those authors con- 

 sidered it differed from S. guavn nsis in having a longer anal 

 spine, but a series of thirty-five specimens, including fourteen 



