THE FISHES OF SAMOA. 



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This species is distinguished from Sehastopsis giiamensis by the very much longer second anal spine. 

 It is equally abundant at Samoa, and has doubtless been confused by authors with Sebastopsis gua- 

 mengis under that and other names. We have about 40 examples from crevices in the reefs of Apia 

 and Pago Pago. Scabra has an orbital tentacle. 



Life colors of a specimen from Pago Pago, brown, the tins barred with l>rownish red; a large jet 

 black spot on opercle; ventrals and belly yellowish. 



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FlG. ll.—Sebaftopfis umbra (Ramsay A Ogilby) 



1332. Sebastopsis novee-guiuese (Sauvage). New Guinea (Nouv. Arch. Mus. 1878, 129). 



SCOEPa:NOPSIS Bleeker. 



1333. Scorpaenopsis cirrhosa (Thunberg). Tahiti (Giinther); New Guinea (Macleay); Japan; 



Kasf Indies. 



1334. Scorpsenopsis gibbosa (Bloch & Schneider). Xofu. Tahiti; Palau; Hawaii; Samoa; New 



Guinea; East Indies. 

 {ScorpR^nopsiJi eatocala Jordan &. Evorniaiin, Hawaii.) 



This species is rather common about Samoa, where we obtained three good-sized spec' mens, and 

 still more common about Hawaii. It is certain that the dkibolus of Cuvier & Valenciennes is the same 

 as the glbbosa of Bloch & Schneider. The characters used by Bleeker to distinguish these species can 

 not be trusted. .S'. gibbosa is best known by its wide, depressed interorbital area, much wider than the 

 eye, and by the deep nuchal pit; there ia a black band at the shoulders covering part of the spinous 

 dorsal fin and a black notch at tip of upper jaw. Scorp.rnopsis eatocala from Hawaii and Scorp,-v7ia 

 newgallica from He de France can not be separated from <S'. gibbom. 



There is a broad black band on the inner side of the pectoral tin near the margin, and this, in the 

 adult, breaks up into spots. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia, violet-black, the dark shades light olive-gray, the throat very 

 dark; lining membranes of jaws bright yellow; axillary region light gray, mottled with olive; belly 

 creamy yellowish; pectoral banded with black, orange and yellow within, grayish at tip; ventrals 

 black, pale-edged; caudal with a broad black band, pale gray at base and tip; spinous dorsal with a 

 jiurple blotch continued as a band on body. 



Another specimen, from the same locality, was dark reddish brown, light bright reddish brown 

 lielow; fins with the pale parts all reddish brown of varying shades; axil dark with jiale spots. 



1335. Scorpsenopsis cacopsis Jenkins. Hawaii; Tahiti. 



1336. Scorpfenopsis novas-guineae Cuvier & Valenciennes. Samoa; New Guinea. 

 ?>(■'..(.,■ I iivier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 320, 1829, New Guinea. 



New Guinea. 



