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This species is distinguished from Sebastopsis guamensis by the very much longer second anal spine. 

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

 mensis 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 fins barred with brownish red; a large jet 

 black spot on opercle; ventrals and belly yellowish. 



Fie. 71. — Sebastopsis scabra (Ramsay & Ogilby). 



1332. Sebastopsis novse-guinese (Sauvage). New Guinea (Nouv. Arch. Mus. 1878, 129). 



SC0RP2EN0PSIS Bleeker. 



Tahiti (Gunther); New Guinea (Macleay); Japan; 



1333. Scorpsenopsis cirrhosa (Thunberg). 



East Indies. 



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



Guinea; East Indies. 

 (Scorpxnopste caiocala Jordan & Evermann, Hawaii.) 



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

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

 as the gibbosa 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 is a black band at the shoulders covering part of the spinous 

 dorsal fin and a black notch at tip of upper jaw. Scorpsenopsis caiocala from Hawaii and Scorpxna 

 nesogallica from He de France can not be separated from S. gibbosa. 



There is a broad black band on the inner side of the pectoral fin 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 

 purple blotch continued as a band on body. 



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

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



1335. Scorpsenopsis cacopsis Jenkins. Hawaii; Tahiti. 



1336. Scorpsenopsis novse-guineae Cuvier & Valenciennes. Samoa; New Guinea. 



fScorpsena novas-guinese Cuvier L t Valenciennes. Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 320, 1829, New Guinea. 

 Scorpxna papucnsis Cuvier tfc Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 321, 1829, New Guinea. 

 Scorpxna gibbosa, Gunther, Cat., II, 119. Sauvuge, Poiss. Madagascar, 279; not of Schneider. 



