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spiiu^ IxMMi;- l)u( little greater tli:in orhit; ix'ctoruls, 1.50 in head; Neu- 

 trals, !.;")() ill head; caudal rounded. l.aO in head. 



Color ill spirits grayish, mottled with light hrown and whitish, a dis- 

 tinct white spot tlu^ size of eye on the posterior lobe of opercle; two dis- 

 tin(;t brown bands across interorbital s[)ace; two widel)r()wn bands from 

 lower margin of orl)it, and an indistinct one from posterior margin of 

 orbit; there are three short brown marks on each side of lower lip; 

 also similar marks on premaxiilary, but the throat and under pai't of 



Fig. 10.— Sebasta pistes nivifer. 



the head is unmarked; the dorsal tin is irregularly dotted with a few 

 black and white spots; the posterior tip of the anal is gray, the middle 

 is l)lotched with dusky; the spines tunc three dark bands across them; 

 the pectoral is distinctly but irregularly ]>anded b\' ro\vs of black 

 spots, with a few white spots intermixed; basal half of ventrals darker 

 than posterior half; caudal gray, with slightly darker mottlings. 



One specimen. C-at. No. 51954. U.S.N.M., from Negros. Philippine 

 islands. Length, 1.15 inches. 



SCORPvENOPSIS Bleeker. 

 gi. SCORP^NOPSIS NOViE-GUINEiE ( Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



One specimen. 



PROSOPODASVS Cantor. 

 92. PROSOPODASYS GOGORZ^ Jordan and Scale, new species. 



Head, 2.75; depth, 3; eye, 4 in head; D. Ill, X, 4; A. HI, 4; inter- 

 orbital e(iual to eye; snout, 4. 



Body compressed; depth of caudal peduncle, 8.10 in head, preorbital 

 ending anteriorly in 2 hooked spines; 2 spines at posterior mar- 

 gin of opercles; 4 spines on posterior margin of preopercle. The 



