BARBADOS-ANTIGUA REPORTS 39 
49. Balistes vetula Linneus. Oldwife; Cochino. 
Balistes vetula Linneus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 329, 1758, Ascension Island; 
Jordan & Evermann, op. cit., 1703; Evermann & Marsh, op. cit., 256, 
colored plate 39. 
One specimen (no. 78), 18 inches long (without filaments), 
taken May 24, at Carlisle Bay, Barbados. 
Head 3; depth 1.9; eye 4.25; D. II], 29; A. 27. No spines 
on side oi tail, the scales smooth; lobes of caudal and anterior 
dorsal rays prolonged in filaments; seales on sides of belly 
largest. 
Color in alcohol brownish green; a few narrow lines of blue 
radiate from eye; two wide blue lines on. cheek. 
50. Scorpena nuttingt Evermann & Seale, new species. 
Plate 1. 
Head in length 2.33; depth 3; eye in head 5.5; snout 3.5; interorbital 
width 5; maxilary 2; mandible 2.1; preorbital 3.5; D. XII, 10; A. III, 
5; scales in lateral line about 42, with about 24 pores. Maxillary reach- 
ing vertical or posterior edge of pupil. 
Suborbital stay with 3 distinct stout spines; 3 short stout orbital 
spines; a similar spine at each corner of the occipital pit, each of the 
posterior pair double; preopercle with 4 spines, the upper one with a 
superimposed spine; opercle with 2 long, flat spines and a smaller one 
above. A deep pit between suborbital stay and anterior part of orbit; 
interorbital area deeply concave; occiput with a deep quadrate pit, with a 
short stout spine at each corner. Breast sparsely scaled; no scales on top 
of head; about 4 rows of thin scales on cheek behind eye; numerous 
dermal flaps on head, particularly on lower jaw; numerous flaps on body, 
largest along lateral line; no supraocular flap. 
Fins all strong; fourth dorsal spine longest, about 2.75 in head; second 
anal spine strong, longer than third, about 2 in head; pectoral large, its 
length a little less than that of head, the lower 11 rays and the upper 
5 unbranched, the middle 3 branched. 
Color in aleohol, a dark area on upper part of side just behind oper- 
cular flap and extending on spinous dorsal where it is mottled with white; 
a large black area on side under soft dorsal and extending on to it; 
pectoral, ventral, and anal mottled with dark; 3 black bars on caudal, 
one at base. 
This species appears to be related to Scorpena plumiert 
Bloch, from which it differs chiefly in the entire absence of a 
supraocular flap, the shorter maxillary, and in having 5 (in- 
stead of only one) of the upper rays of the pectoral branched. 
The collection contains but one specimen of this species. It 
was taken May 15 in a fish pot in Carlisle Bay, Barbados. 
