THE SCORF^ENOID F18H, NKOSEBASTES KNTAXI8, AS 

 THE TYPE OF A DISTINCT GENUS. 



By Theodore Gill, 



Honorary Associate in Zoologij. 



The description and figure bv Jordan and Starks of their Neoschastes 

 entaxw^'' recalled the interest which the description of the typical 

 Neosebastes ixvoui^Q^ in me many years ago. I have consequenth" exam- 

 ined the newly added species, and the examination has convinced me 

 of the aptness of the authors' suggestion that their species ''may rep- 

 resent a new genus." 



Fig.]. — Neosebastks scoRP.KNoiDEs. i.\FTEH McCoy.) 



In most respects there is essential agreement between N. ,seorj)^- 

 noides and ]Sf. entaxis, but the latter does not possess those characters 

 which were used to differentiate the genus. An excellent- figure and 

 description have been published by Sir F. McCoy,''' and they give the 

 means of comparison between the two. 



The Neosehades scorpmiioides has thebody most convex near the nape, 

 and the rest of the back nearly rectilinear tailwards; the pectoral fins 

 have the "upper rays longest" and the "lower rays branched, the 



«Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXVII, 1904, p'. 120. 

 ''Natural History of Vi(;toria (pi. cxciii). 



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