438 Pareioplite, or Mailed-cheek Fishes 
with a broad, depressed head, is found in the London Eocene, 
and various Miocene species have been referred to Scorpena. 
Sebastodes rose is based on a fragment, probably Pleistocene, 
from Port Harford, California. 
The small family of the Caracanthide consists of little fishes 
lig. 376.—Trachicephalus uranoscopus. Family Scorpenide. From 
Swatow, China. 
of the coral reefs of the Pacific. These are compressed in form, 
and the skin 1s rough with small prickles, the head being feebly 
armed. The species are rare and little known, brown in color 
with pale spots. 
The Skilfishes: Anoplopomide.— The small family of skil- 
fishes or Anoplopomide consists of two species found on the 
Pie. 377.—skilfish, Anoplopoma fimbria (Pallas). California. 
coast of California and northward. These resemble the Scor- 
pemde, having the usual form of nostrils, and the suborbital 
stay well developed. The skull is, however, free from spines, 
the scales are small and close-set, and the sleek, dark- 
colored body has suggested resemblance to the mackerel or 
hake. Anoplopoma fimbria, known as skilfish, beshow, or coal]- 
fish, is rather common from Unalaska to Monterey, reaching 
a length of two feet or more. In the north it becomes very 
