Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 2861 



Page 1854. After Scorpcena inermis add : 



2247 (a). SCORP.ENA NEMATOPHTHALMUS (Gunther). 



Head 3 in total length ; depth 3 ; eye 4 in head ; snout rather less than 4. 

 D. XII, 10; A. Ill, 5; scales 40 or 41. Dorsal outline much arched at 

 greatest depth of body. Eye placed high, entering upper outline of head. 

 Intermaxillaries styliform, armed, like the dentaries, with a rather narrow 

 band of villiform teeth; band of vomerine teeth angularly bent, produced 

 forward at the angle; maxillaries styliform at superior extremity, moder- 

 ately dilated at the lower. Head scaled to posterior angle of orbit above 

 and to the preorbital and angle of mouth laterally. Spines on head very 

 prominent and acute in the young, more obtuse in older examples ; 2 tur- 

 binal spines ; on each side of the occiput a series of 5 spines between orbit 

 and nape; 2 between eye and scapula; preorbital armed with 2 strong, 

 recurved spines at the inferior margin; 3 spines on interorbital ridge; 

 preopercular margin rounded, with 4 spines, the uppermost and strongest 

 opposite end of interorbital ridge; opercle with 2 flat spines; a pair of 

 spines at throat. The only skinny appendage is a long, slender, tapering 

 filament above posterior angle of orbit. Origin of dorsal immediately 

 behind vertical from suprascapula, its distance from occiput equaling 

 length of first spine, which is about $ length of second; third and fourth 

 spines longest, 2 in head; the following spines gradually decreasing to 

 the eleventh, which equals the first; twelfth spine much longer, appar- 

 ently belonging to the soft portion, which is supported by it; margin of 

 soft portion rounded, very little higher than the spinous, posteriorly fixed 

 to the back of the tail by a membrane; caudal subtruncated; origin of 

 anal somewhat behind that of soft dorsal, its second spine strong, rather 

 longer than the third dorsal, and with a longitudinal groove; pectoral 

 reaching anal; ventral reaching vent. Scales of moderate size, rather 

 irregularly arranged. Color probably uniform red. Supposed to be from 

 the West Indies. (Gunther.) Only the type known, (rtf/ua, thread. 

 o<t>aA.juog, eye.) 



Sebastes nematophthalmus, GilNTHER, Cat., in, 99, 1860, "West Indies; the exact locality 

 unknown. (Coll. Sir R. Schomburgk.) 



Page 1862. Anoplopoma fimbria is occasionally taken off Santa Catalina 

 in deep water. A specimen was seen by us at Redondo Beach. 



Page 1866, line 7 from bottom, read "always," not " usually." 

 Page 1867. In the key, & should read as follows: 



&. Fourth line of pores forking in advance of base of ventrals, the lower branch running 

 to base of ventral fin, the upper to middle of ventral. OCTOGRAMMUS, 2259. 



In the footnote for " Keinosuke Otaki" read " Keinoske Otaki." 

 Page 1879, line 27, for "jointed" read "joined." Line 37, after 

 "hypercoracoid" add "and hypocoracoid." 

 Page 1880. In the key read : 



m. Lateral line armed with a series of bony plates ; preopercular antler-like processes 

 usually numerous. 



