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3+ 6; head naked, with the exception of a few imbedded 
scales on preopercle and posterior part of opercle; scales 
on body large, many of them with membranous flaps. 
Olive-brown almost black, marbled with light drab; 
opercular flap with pale edge; the fins much spotted and 
marbled, all except spinous dorsal, with white margin, 
more distinct in the young; caudal fin showing three in- 
distinct cross-bars; axil jet black, with white spots. 
Largest specimen fourteen inches long. 
This species differs from Scorpena plumiert in having 
a wider and flatter interorbital area; the lower jaw wider 
and more rounded in front; the knob at symphysis not 
so sharp and projecting; the pit behind coronal spines 
broader and not so deep, and the color darker. 
This species was also obtained at Mazatlan by Dr. Gil- 
bert, who identified it provisionally as Scorpena plumieri. 
Types numbered 1501, 1616, 1617;'2019 on the) leaoe 
Jr. Univ. Mus. register. 
196. Scorpena sonore (Jenkins & Evermann). 
This small species is not uncommon in the Astillero, 
where numerous specimens, none of them over three 
inches in length, were obtained. It has hitherto been 
recorded only by Jenkins & Evermann from Guaymas. 
Gray above, the flaps pinkish, the bars blackish; lower 
parts pink, bright on ventrals and anal; axil orange, 
mottled with dusky; ventrals and pectorals black at tip, 
edged with pale. Middle rays of pectoral slightly divided 
at tip, not all of them being strictly simple. 
Family TRIGLID. 
197. Prionotus horrens Richardson. 
Two small specimens, each about two inches long, ob= 
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tained in the Astillero. 
