374 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



Family SCORP£NID£. a 



MERINTHE Jordan & Evermann. 



1325. Merinthe macrocephala (Sauvage). Hawaii. 



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

 Scorpxna bandanensis Bleeker, Banda, I, 237, 1851, Banda. 



Scorpxna haplodactylus Bleeker, Ceram, II, 698, 1852, Ceram. 

 Scorpxna haplodaclyla, Gunther, Cat., II, 117, Banda, Ceram, Fiji(»). 



IRACUNDUS Jordan & Evermann. 



1327. Iracundus sig-nifer Jordan & Evermann. Hawaii. 



SEBASTOPSIS Gill. 



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



Scorpxna parvipinnis Garrett, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1863, 105. Sandwich Is., Raiatea. Gunther, Fische der Siidsee, 

 75, taf. 51. lig. d, Raiatea. 

 This species is known to us only from the accounts of Gunther 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 guamensis (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 guam- 

 ensis and Sebastopsis scabra. 



1330. Sebastopsis guamensis (Quoy & Gaimard). La'otale. Samoa; Tahiti; Guam; Caroline Is. ; 



Tonga; Palau; Fiji; East Indies. 



'Scorpxna rawakensis Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. Oranie Zool., 325, 1824, Rawak. 



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



Sebastopsis guamensis. Streets, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mua., VII, 96, Samoa. Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1900, 521, 



Tahiti. 

 Scorpmna guamensis, Klunzinger, Fische Rothen Meeres, Tahiti. Gunther, Fische der Siidsee, 74, Caroline Is., Red 



Sea, Samoa, Tonga, Palau. 

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

 Scorpxna chilioprista Ruppell, Neue Wirbelthiere, 107, taf. 27, tig. 3, 1835, Red Sea. Gunther, Cat., II, 121. 

 Sebastes polylepis Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., 1851, II, 173, Amboina. Gunther, Cat., II, 106, Amboina, East 



Indies. 

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

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



Cat., n, 106. 



Of this species we have about 50 specimens from Samoa. It is well separated from Sebastopsis 

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

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

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

 identify Seorpzena 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 & Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W., x, 1885, Shark reef (Australia). 



a Scorpxna raigiensis from Waigiu (Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, 324) we can not place. It has dorsal xiv, 11, anal III, 6. 



