250 lH'bLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



Familj SCORPjENIDjE. 



186. Scorpaena brasiliensis Cuvier & Valenciennes. 

 A specimen obtained. 



187. Scorpaena pluniieri Cuvier & Valenciennes. 

 Recorded by 1 'r. Bean from Fort Jefferson. 



188. Scorpaena grandicornis Cuvier A Valenciennes. 



Color of a specimen 2.13 inches long, head olivaceous brown, finely speckled with pale; dermal 

 flaps pinkish; a dark brown sector from lower part of eyedown and lack to lower pari of cheek; 

 body dark brown with gray mottling, flaps pink, some whitish; throe almost black blotches 

 along middle line of body; belly whitish, above a pink zone with two broken rows of dark 

 brown spots with indistinct light lirown zone; ventral very dark maroon, pink spines and pale pos- 

 terior border; pectoral red brown, brown band at base and one about middle of tin not sharply 

 defined; pectoral base underneath white, brown spotted: dorsal brown like body, spines and margin 

 of well above notches pale, much dotted with white: soft dorsal a trifle dusky, with reddish marginal 

 band, pale mid band; caudal red brown, with pale margin, tun pale bands, one at base with a white 

 dermal flap anteriorly. (T. ) 



Family COTTID.E. 



189. Hemitripterus americanus (Gmelin). 



One specimen found inside of Hush Key and deposited in the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and 

 Sciences. This is the most southern record on the Atlantic coast of North America for a member of 

 the sculpin family, Charleston being the limit before noted. (T. ) 



Family TRIGLIDiE. 



190. Prionotus roseus Jordan. 



A specimen sent to the Bureau of Fisheries. 



Body color, pinkish gray; head a trille lighter gray, with very small pink-brown blotches; rooi ol 

 mouth rust-red; behind angle of mouth a pink blotch; on back, opposite fifth to sixth dorsal spine, 



two brown spots with ill-defined edges from above downward, forming tl ter boundary points of a 



lighter brown square blotch, opposite eighth to ninth dorsal spines a similar marking; opposite tilth 

 web a round brown spot, these spots three-sixteenths inch apart; behind soft dorsal, the two spot,- so 

 close together as to form a blotch nearly one-eighth inch broad. Throat, abdomen, and under [.art of 

 tail pure white; body and tail markings border this white region as pinkish blotched oblong- starting 

 obliquely upward; on body a similar row of indistinct pink blotches from axil obliquely upward and 

 backward, ending under second spot below soft dorsal; roughly 15 blotches; feelers cream-colored, 

 with S light brown cross-bands, these about parallel when tin is folded to body: under surface of pec 

 total for anterior two-thirds gra\ , remainder black gray; dorsal yellow gray, mottled at base; spines 

 white and pink; web of first to tilth spines much darker gray; half of tilth and remainder quite hya- 

 line; soft dorsal rays white; three rows of pink gray spots; tips almost salmon, web hyaline; last two 

 gray and gray black, respectively; caudal spines white, two broad bands of pearly gray, upper margin 

 white and pink gray barred, lower pure pink; tip of all spines and webs except lowest dark L r ray ; anal 

 white, pink blush on last spines and webs; ventral white. (T. ) This ti-h was hitherto known only 

 from spewings of red groupers from the snapper banks off Tampa and Pensacola. 



191. Prionotus tribulus Cuvier & Valenciennes. 

 Reported by Carman from Nutting's collection of 1S96. 



Family CEPHALACAXTH1D.E. 



192. Cephalacanthus volitans (Linnaeus). 

 Recorded by Porter and Moore from Fort Jefferson. 



