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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 seales on the mandible, snout, preorbital, and head gen- 
erally being fully ctenoid. In S. pinniger the scales on nearly all parts 
of the head are cycloid. Mandible scaled even to the symphyseal knob. 
Interoperele fully sealed; most of the branchiostegals with series of 
seales. Maxillary, “antl and tip of sneut fully scaled. Preorbital 
with a narrow mee and two distinct spines, the neck less than one- 
fourth the diameter of the eye, which is cf 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, postocular, tympanic, 
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 SN. 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 having less of a backward direc- — 
tion than in S. pinniger. 
Opercular spines sharp. Spines on subopercle and interopercle mod- 
erate. Two suprascapular spines and a rudiment of a third. 
Seales large, in about 47 transverse rows; the accessory scales few. 
Dorsal fin low, rather deeply emarginate, essentially as in S. 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 
the 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. III, 7. 
GilL-rakers, as in mis ger, very long and slender, about 10 4+ 22 in 
number, the longest about 3 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 eross-blotches made of dark points on snout, interorbi- 
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. Maxillary with a red streak, 
