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375.— MELLETES Beau. 

 (Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus, 1879, 354: type Mclleies jyapiUo Bean.) 



Body moderately elongate. Head broad, depressed, rounded in front, 

 naked, with several cutaneous flaps; jaws, vomer, and palatines with 

 bands of villiform teeth; preopercular spines simple, rather strong; 

 gill- membranes broadly connected, free from the isthmus; a slit behind 

 the hist gill; a narrow band of ctenoid scales along sides of back, 

 meeting in front of dorsal; a few prickles on anterior parts of body, 

 and some small dermal flaps on sides; skin otherwise naked; dorsals 

 connected; the spinous dorsal long, not emarginate; pectorals well de- 

 veloped, the rays all simple; ventrals very long, I, 4, the inner surface 

 of the rays armed with stiff setie; pyloric coeca 6; no air-bladder. 

 Alaska. (//TjA/jjrTj^, a loiterer; remaining in shallow pools as the tide 

 recedes.) 



1100. M. papilio Bean. 



Grayish brown, with darker bands and various mottlings; belly 

 grayish, with round white spots; fins all much mottled and barred. 

 Nasal spines obtuse; 2 spines above posterior part of orbits, and 2 on 

 the vertex, the last four with short filaments. Ventrals 2 in length, 

 longer than iiectorals, extending to the seventh anal ray ((?). Head 

 4; depth 2§. D. XII, 20; A. 17; P. 17; V. I, 4. L. 7 inches. Saint 

 Paul's Island, Alaska. 



(Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 18/9, 354.) 



376.— SCOBP.ENICHTHYS Girard. 

 (Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila. 1S54, 131: type Hemitripterus marmorat us Ayrcs.) 

 Body rather robust, covered with smooth, thick skin. Head large, 

 somewhat compressed, its upper surface rugose. Mouth rather large, 

 with villiform teeth on jaws, vomer, and palatines; gill-membranes 

 broadly united, free from the isthmus; a large slit behind fourth gill; 

 preopercular spines small, simple ; sj^inous dorsal long, scarcely emar- 

 ginate, but slightly depressed near its middle, the first four spines 

 shorter than those immediately following; ventral fins large, I, 5. Size 

 large. Pacific Ocean. {<T/.op-acva, Scorpcena; l/Juc, fish.) 



1101. S. mariMoratus (Ayres) Grd. 



Olive brown, thickly mottled with dark blotches and light spots, and 

 reticulated with different shades of green and brown; sides with 5 irreg- 

 ular, dark, vertical blotches, of which two are under each dorsal and 



