NO. 1407. FISHES FROM NEGROS— JORDAN' AND SEALE. 791 



86. TETRAODON RETICULARIS (Bloch and Schneider). 



One .specimen. 



87. SPHEROIDES OCELLATUS (Osbeck). 



Six .small specimen.s apparently it't'erable to thi.s species, pale spots 

 honey-comb like, hexagonal surrounded by blackish reticulations; a 

 blackish bar across the back behind pectorals. 



CANTHIGASTER Swainson. 

 88. CANTHIGASTER COMPRESSUS (Proce). 



{Tefraodon. .vtiiolatns QiOY and (t.vimard. ) 



Two specimens. The name c<>inpre-%'<iis is prior to that of striolatus, 

 given by Quoy and (xaimard to this species. 



Family SCORP.ENID^. 



SEBASTOPSIS Gill. 

 89. SEBASTOPSIS SCABRA Ramsey and Ogilby. 



One specimen. 



SEBASTAPISTES Gill. 

 90. SEBASTAPISTES NIVIFER Jordan and Seale, new species. 



Head, 2.20; depth, 3; eye, 3.50 in head; D. XI, I, 10; A. Ill, 5; 

 about 64 series of scales; interorbital in orbit; snout, 3 in head; a dis- 

 tinct fringed orbital tentacle about equal in length to width of eye. 



Body compressed po.steriorly, head large, spiny, naked, with some 

 distinct skinny tiaps; depth of caudal peduncle 4 in head; small teeth 

 in jaws, vomer, and palatines; preorbital ends anteriorly in three 

 spines the lower one of which extends downward and slightly directed 

 backward over the maxillary; beneath this third spine is a large com- 

 pound skinn}' Hap; orbital and nuchal spines distinct, the orbital ten- 

 tacle much more distinct than any of the spines; opercle has two dis- 

 tinct spines at posterior margin, these being the ends of two fan-like 

 stays; the preopercle has five distinct spines at its posterior margin, 

 the upper and largest one being opposite the posterior end of the bony 

 sta}' of cheeks; the interorbital is rather narrow with two distinct 

 ridges; gillrakers very short and thick, ten on lower limb; origin of 

 dorsal is slightly in advance of origin of ventral, its longest spine, 2.10 

 in head, the eleventh dorsal spine is about one-half the length of the 

 twelfth, the last ray of soft dorsal united by a membrane to caudal 

 peduncle; base of anal, 2 in head; the second anal spine the longest, 

 its tip, however, extending only to middle of tin, the length of the 



