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fringes; flaps also present on cheeks and opercles, along lateral line, and scattered on scales of trunk; 

 supraorbital flap long and broad, often incised, usually extending to base of nuchal spine; maxillary 

 not extending to below miildle of the large eye; teeth very finely villifonn, in a broad band in pre- 

 Miaxillaries, a narrow band in mandiljles, and still narrower bands on vomer and palatines; length of 

 palatine l)and nearly equaling diameter of pupil; neither slit nor pore behind fourth gill-arch, the 

 lamina- of which are much reduced; gill-rakers short, slender, toothed, 7 freely movaljle on horizontal 

 limb of anterior arch. 



Spinous dorsal evenly rounded; third and fifth spines equal, fourth a little longer; second anal 

 spine much longer and stronger than third, a little shorter than fourth dorsal; only 3 or 4 of the pec- 

 toral rays branched, the upper 2 and the lower 10 or 11 simple; pectoral base not procurrent, the lower 

 rays but little thickened and exserted; upper rays of lower division of fin longer than the others; 

 ventrals reaching front of anal fin; vent separated from anal fin by a distance equaling one-fourth 

 length of ventrals. 



Fig. ■2i'i.—Sihiisliii)istes coloratun CJilhert, new species. 



Scales strongly ctenoid on sides, cycloid on belly, lireast, and prepectoral area, these regions all 

 completely invested; a small patch of ctenoid scales behind eye on uppermost portions of cheeks and 

 opercles; remainder of head wholly scaleless. 



Color in sjnrits: Ujiper half of body largely bright rose-red or purplish, traversed by a few irregular 

 curved lines of the grayish olive ground color, one crossing back under last dorsal spines, one under 

 last soft rays; lower parts all light grayish olive; interorbital space an<l upper part of eye bright red, 

 lower half of iris yellowish or golden; red blotches on cheeks, opercles, branchial membranes and 

 roof of mouth; sides of head sometimes with bright pearly blotches, a small red spot or blotch near 

 base of pectoral rays; dorsals reddish, with much white pigment, the red more intense near margin of 

 fin, the tips of spines narrowly white; a sniall lilackish spot on terminal jiortion of eighth to ninth 

 dorsal spines. 



Specimens were taken at stations Nos. .S849, off the south coast of Molokai, 4.'^ to 7'i fathoms, and 

 3850. off the south i-oast of ilolokai, 43 to H(5 fathcims. 



iScorpsenopsis altirostris, new species. Fig. 244. 



Type, 62 mm. long, from station 3849, off tlie south coast of Molokai, clepth 43 to 73 fathoms; type, 

 No. .516.36, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Head 52 Inmdredths of total length to b.asc of caudal; diameter of orl.iit 15; widtli atmiddleof 

 interorbital space 7; length of snout 14: length of maxillary 24; dejith of body 40; least depth of caudal 



