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anterior margins of orbits; gill-opening very short, not descending to level of lower pectoral rays; 
caudal fin gently convex. 
Color grayish olive above, lighter below; back and upper portion of sides of head, body and tail 
with small round brownish green spots, about one-third size of pupil; lower parts white, fins 
unmarked. 
A specimen 36 mm. long, from station 3965, vicinity of Laysan Island, depth 116 to 147 fathoms, 
differs markedly in general proportions from the type. It is much broader, with wider flatter inter- 
im. 242 . — Aracana spilonota Gilbert, new species. Type. 
orbital space, and the posterior half of the dorsal face deeply concave transversely, instead of convex. 
The breast is gibbous. In other respects, it agrees with the type and doubtless represents the last in 
the series of larval changes, which are very extensive in these forms. 
But 2 specimens secured. 
Family SC0RP£NID£. 
Sebastapistes coloratus, new species. Fig. 243. 
Type, 77 mm. long, from station 3849, off the south coast of Molokai, depth 43 to 73 fathoms; type, 
No. 51631, IT. S. Nat. Mus. 
Head 47 hundredths of total length to base of caudal; diameter of orbit 16; width at middle of 
interorbital space 6; length of snout 11; length of maxillary 20; depth of body 38; least depth of caudal 
peduncle 9; longest (fourth) dorsal spine 20; eleventh dorsal spine 8; twelfth dorsal spine 15; longest 
dorsal ray 20; first anal spine 9; second anal spine 19; third anal spine 16; longest pectoral ray 31; 
longest ventral ray 24. I), xix, 9, last ray divided to base, appearing like 2 distinct rays; A. hi, 5; P. 
17. Tubes in lateral line 25 or 26. 
Eye much longer than snout, 3 times the least width of interorbital space, which is moderately 
concave; from middle of interorbital space a pair of well-marked longitudinal ridges diverging ante- 
riorly to base of nasal spines and posteriorly to occipital fossa, bridging the latter to join base of 
parietal ridge; occipital fossa deep, quadrate; preocular, supraocular, postocular, tympanic, parietal 
and nuchal spines present, the parietal and nuchal not in a straight line with the others; postocular 
broad and triangular, tympanic slender, erect, thorn-like, parietal and nuchal comparatively low and 
inconspicuous; a group of 3 or 4 very small spines on posterior orbital rim, followed posteriorly by a 
ridge terminating in a small spine, these in a direct line with lower suprascapular ridge and spine; a 
second smaller suprascapular spine, parallel with first, above point of origin of lateral line; upper 
preopercular spine much the largest, in a direct line with subocular ridge, and bearing a minute spinous 
point at its base; subocular ridge low but sharp, and bearing 3 minute spines; four short strong spines 
below upper preopercular spine, the second not smaller than the third; preorbital with two strong 
spines diverging from a common base; nasal, preocular, supraocular, parietal, preorbital, and lower 
preopercular spines accompanied by cutaneous flaps, which are of moderate width and mostly without 
