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middle of the operculum ; another behind the eye, and sometimes there 

 is one present on the upper part of the base of the pectoral. Fins mi- 

 nutely dotted, on the dorsal and caudal fins the dots are aggregated, 

 and arranged in lines. No cross-streak between the eyes. 



Lengths, 2.10, 1.40, 1.40 inches. 



Locality : Coral reefs of Oahu. 



SOORPiENID^. 



SEBASTAPISTES STEONGIA,* {Ciiv. & Val.) [No. 15400J. 



Scorpcena strongia, Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. des Poiss., iv, 1829, 323.— Quoy & Gaim., Voy. 

 Astrol. Poiss., 1834, 688, pi. 11, f. 2.— Lesson, Voy. Coquil. Poiss., 1830, 213.— 

 GtJNTHER, Jour. Mus. Godefif., ii, 1873-75, Fische der Sudsee, i, 80 (not of Cat. 

 Fish., ii, 1860, p. 10.5). 



D. Hi. A. f . L. lat. 45-47. 



Teeth on the vomer and palatine bones ; those on the latter in a nar- 

 row band. 



Height of the body is contained 3 J times in the total length, and the 

 length of the head 3 times in the same. luterorbital space one-half the 

 diameter of the eye ; and the latter is contained three times in the 

 length of the head. Snout as long as the diameter of the eye ; jaws 

 subequal in front ; no skinny flaps. The end of the upper maxillary 

 extends to the vertical from the center of the eye. luterorbital space 

 deeply concave, a longitudinal ridge on either side of the bottom of the 

 groove; three spines on the superior orbital ridge, and three on either 

 side of the occiput ; space between the latter flat ; three small spines 

 on the upper posterior orbital border; a group of three or four on the tem- 

 pero-scapular region ; two flat spines on the operculum, the upper of 

 which is the larger ; a large flat spine above the base of the pectoral 

 fin ; four or five on the posterior border of the prseoperculum, the upper 

 the largest. A series of short ridges, some of them ending posteriorly in 

 spines, below the eye; springing from the inner side of the anterior nos- 

 trils are two short spines directed upward and backward, and two short 



* The genus Sebastapistes is proposed by Prof. Gill for the reception of the Scor- 

 pwna guttata, Girard, Scorpcena strongia, Cuv. «fc Val., and Sebastichthys cyanostigma, 

 Bleeker, which are segregated, in the words of Gill, " from their allies by the naked 

 crown and jaws, the spinous armature of the inferior margin of the prjBorbital, the pro- 

 current bases of the pectoral fius, &c. The genus is intermediate between the Sebastoid 

 and Scorpsenoid genera, and nearly related to Parascorpcena, Blkr." 



