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of the upper jaw. This elevation is much more marked in the present 

 species than in pinniger. 



Head more completely scaly than in related species, the scales alsO 

 rougher, the scales on the mandible, snout, preortital, and head gen- 

 erally being fully ctenoid. In iS. pinniger the scales on uearl^^ all parts 

 of the head ^re cycloid. Mandible scaled even to the symphyseal knob, 

 luteropercle fully scaled; most of the branchiostegals \Yith scries of 

 scales. •Maxillary, preorbital,'and ti[) of snout fully scaled. Preorbital 

 with a narrow neck, and two distinct ST)ines, the neck less than one- 

 fourth the diameter of the eye, which is of moderate size, about as in 

 pinniger. 



Spinous ridges on top of head low and small. The following pairs of 

 spines are present: Nasal, preocular, supraocular, jiostocular, tymijanic, 

 and occipital, six pairs in all. 



Interorbital space very broad and almost flat, a slight depression on 

 each side of the supraocular ridge, between which depressions is a 

 slight convexity. 



In iS. pinniger the interocular space is notably narrower, and both de- 

 pressions and concavity are more marked. Space between occipital 

 ridges slightly convex. In ^S'. pinniger this is slightly concave. 



Preopercular spines rather long and sharp, the second the longest 

 and sharpest, the spines radiating and ha\dng less of a backward direc- 

 tion than in S. pinniger. 



Opercular spines sharp. Spines on subopercle and interoi>ercle mod- 

 erate. Two sui)rascapular spines and a rudiment of a third. 



Scales large, in about 47 transverse rows; the accessory scales few. 



Dorsal fin low, rather deeply emargiuate, essentially as in 8. pinniger^ 

 but both spines and soft rays somewhat higher, the latter a little higher 

 than the spines. Caudal fin lunate. Anal fin rather high, the second 

 spine about as long as the third and rather stouter, little more than half 

 ^e height of the soft rays. Pectoral fin moderate, as in pinniger^ the 

 tip reaching about to the vent, the base rather narrow, and the rays not 

 fleshy. Ventrals, as in pinniger, very long, reaching past the vent al- 

 most to the beginning of the anal. 



Dorsal rays XIII, 14 ; A. Ill, 7. 



Gill-rakers, as in pinniger, very long and slender, about 10 -f 22 in 

 number, the longest about § the diameter of the eye. 



Color darker than in pinniger, deep red, strictly speckled with dusky. 

 Above bright deep vermilion, mottled with flesh-color on the sides, the 

 belly light red. Back and sides everywhere with clusters of black dots, 

 so that the whole body has a dusky shade. Top of head and back with 

 vaguely defined cross-blotches made of dark points on snout, iaterorbi- 

 tal space, occiput, under fourth dorsal spine, under eighth dorsal spine, 

 one under first soft ray, last soft ray, and base of caudal. Three obscure 

 orange stripes radiating from the eye. MaxiUary with a red streak. 



