376 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



This species, distinguished from the true Scorpxnopsis gibbosa by the narrow interorbital and 

 smoother body, is known to us from a single example from Samoa. Among its best distinctive 

 characters is that of the very long second anal spine, a feature not shown in the plate of Quoy & 

 Gaimard, who may have had some other species in mind. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia, blackish, the belly creamy yellowish, with no red and no 

 orange except in the inner angle of ventrals; all pale markings creamy white or creamy brown, a little 

 orange-shaded in dorsal and anal and inner edge of ventral; inner' side of pectoral olive with orange 

 shades next to the black cross-band; axil olive with round brown spots. 



1337. Scorpaenopsis altirostris Gilbert. Hawaii. 



1338. Scorpaenopsis zanzibarensis (Play fair). New Guinea (Giinther) ; Zanzibar. 



SCOHPiENA (Artedi) Linnaeus. 



1339. Scorpaena cooki Giinther. Raoull.; Cook Is.; Raiatea (Seale). 

 Scorpsena cooki Giinther, Fische der Siidsee, 78, taf. 5o, Raoul I. 



SEBASTAPISTES Gill. 



1340. Sebastapistes dentatus (Giinther). Palan Is. 

 Scorpaena dentata Giinther, Fische der Siidsee, 76, 1873, Palau Is. 



1341. Sebastapistes coniorta Jenkins. Hawaii. 



1342. Sebastapistes g-alactacme Jenkins. Hawaii. 



1343. Sebastapistes corallicola Jenkins. Hawaii. 



IScorptena asperclla Bennett, Zool. Jour., iv, 1829, 40, Sandwich Is. Giinther, Fische der Siidsee, 80, Hawaiian Is. 

 Sebastapistes corallicola Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., xxn, 1902 (1903), 493, Honolulu. 



It is impossible to identify Bennett's S. asperella with certainty. It is probably Sebastapistes coralli- 

 cola, the red spot on the dorsal and the tentacle over the eye favoring this identification. 



1344. Sebastapistes ballieui (Sauvage). Hawaii. 



1345. Sebastapistes coloratus Gilbert. Hawaii. 



1346. Sebastapistes albobrunneus Giinther. Palau Is. 

 Scorpsena albo-brunnea Giinther, Fische der Siidsee, 77, 1873, Palau Is. 



1347. Sebastapistes strong-ius (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Oualan, or Strong Island; Amboina. 

 We are unable to identify this species.' Were it not for the plain-colored lower parts of the head, 



in the figure of Quoy & Gaimard, we should regard Sebastapistes la'otale as this species. 



1348. Sebastapistes laotale Jordan & Seale, new species. La'otale. Samoa; Rarotonga. 

 Scorpxna tristis, Giinther, Fische der Siidsee, 77, Rarotonga; not of Klunzinger. 



Head 2.45 in length; depth 2.75; eye 4 in head; dorsal xii,10; anal in, 6; about 22 modified 

 scales in lateral line; snout 3.50 in head; interorbital 1.50 in eye, this space very concave with two 

 small longitudinal ridges. 



Body oblong, moderately compressed; depth of caudal peduncle equal to eye; mouth large; max- 

 illary 1.75 in head; minute teeth in jaws and vomer, none on palatines; head spinate, preorbital end- 

 ing in two sharp spines, one directed forward, the other downward and back, a st-ong spine at posterior 

 end of the bony stay of cheek; three distinct spines below at the angle of preopercle; four distinct 

 supraocular spines and four spines on each side of nuchal region; posterior nostril with a distinct spine, 

 the anterior nostril with a short divided tentacle; opercle with three spines from its posterior part; 

 origin of dorsal fin at posterior part of nuchal region, its longest spine 2.75 in head; base of anal fin 

 2.25 in length of head; second anal spine 2 in head; pectoral 1.20; ventral 1.80; caudal rounded 1.50 

 in head. 



Life colors of a specimen from Pago Pago called la'otale; black and gray, with rosy tinge on caudal. 

 Another from the same place has the red rosy salmon, the ground-color whitish, it and the rosy every- 

 where finely speckled with black points. A specimen from Apia was purplish black, mottled with gray 

 with scarcely any shades of pink; the chin profusely barred. 



