374 BULLKTIN OV THK BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



Family SCOKP.-£XID,€.« 

 MERINTHE Jordan & Evermann. 



1325. Merinthe macrocephala (Sauvage). Hawaii. 



1326. Merinthe bandanensis (Bleeker). Fat6 (Seale) ; East Indies. 

 Scorpxim handaiicnsis Bleeker, Banda. i, 2iT. 1851, Banda. 



Scorpisna haplodactt/lus Bleeker. Ceram, u. 698, 1852, Ceram. 

 Scorpsena liaplodadyla, Giinther, Cat., ii, 117, Banda, Ceram, Fiji(?). 



IRACTINDDS Jordan & Evermann. 



1327. Iracundus signifer Jordan & Evermann. Hawaii. 



SEBASTOFSIS Gill. 



1328. Sebastopsis parvipinnis (Garrett). Hawaii (, Garrett); Raiatea. 



other, Fische der Siidse.' 



This species is known to us only from the accounts of Giinther and Garrett. It seems well distin- 

 guished by its low dorsal spines. 



1329. Sebastopsis kelloggi Jenkins. Hawaii. 



This little fish is abundant about the Hawaiian islands. It is close to Sebastopsis gnamensis {poly- 

 lepis), but it differs from all the Polynesian species examined by us in having, besides an auxiliary 

 spine, four spines on the edge of the preopercle. There are three of these spines in Sebastopsis giiam- 

 exm« and Sebastopsis scabra. 



1330. Sebastopsis g'uamensis (Quoy & Gaimard). La^olale. Samoa; Tahiti; Guam; Caroline !.«. ; 



Tonga; Palau; Fiji; East Indies. 



fiicurpxmi rawakensis Quay & Gaimard, Voy. Uraiiie Zool., 325, 1821, Rawak. 



Scorpxna gaametisis Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. Uranie Zool., 326, 1824, Guam. 



Sebastopsis guamensit, Streets, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., vii, %. Samoa. Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1900, 521, 



Tahiti. 

 Scorpxna gnamensis, Klunzinger, Fische Rothen Meerea, Tahiti. Gunther, Fische der Sudsee, 74, Caroline Is., Red 



Sea, Samoa, Tonga, Palau. 

 Scorpxna riibropunclala Ehrenberg in Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv. 324, 1829, Red Sea. 

 Scorpaina chitioprisla Riippell, Neue Wirbelthiere, 107, taf. 27, fig. 3, 1835, Red Sea. Gunther, Cat., ii, 121. 

 Sebastes polylepis Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., 1851. n, 173, Amboina. Gunther, Cat., ii, 106, .\mboina. East 



Indies. 

 Sebastopsis erinacea Garman, Bull. Mus Comp. Zool., xxxix, 8, 231, pi. i, fig. 2, Viti Levu (Fiji). 

 Sebastes minutus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 348, 1829, Moluccas, Ladrones, Society Is. Gunther, 



Cat.. II, 106. 



Of this species we have about bO specimens from Samoa. It is well separated from Sebaslopsix 

 scabra by the shorter anal spine. It is impossible for us to tell certainly what species was intended 

 in the descriptions of Seorpima gnamensis and minutus, but this species is certainly the guamensis of 

 Giinther and Klunzinger, as also the polylepis of Bleeker and the erinacea of Garman. We can not 

 identify Scorpxna rawakensis. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia, light olive with many brown spots and three dark brown 

 cross-shades; a white bar across base of caudal; fins all reddish brown, bright brick red at tip, barred 

 with pale bluish gray; throat and belly dark. 



Another specimen was dusky brown, four dusky cross-bars, sides with greenish reticulations 

 around dusky spots; fins all closely reticulated reddish brown and bluish gray; throat paler. 



1331. Sebastopsis scabra (Ramsay & Ogilby). Samoa; north Australia. 

 Sebastes scaber Ramsay cSi Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N, S. W., x, 1885, Shark reef (Australia). 



a Scorp,rHa laigitn.^is from Waigiu (Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, 321) we can not place. It hasdorsal xiv. 11, anal in, 6. 



