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fringes; flaps also present on cheeks and opercles, along lateral line, and scattered on scales of trunk; 
supraorbital flap long and broad, often incised, usually extending to base of nuchal spine; maxillary 
not extending to below middle of the large eye; teeth very finely villiform, in a broad band in pre- 
maxillaries, a narrow band in mandibles, and still narrower bands on vomer and palatines; length of 
palatine band nearly equaling diameter of pupil; neither slit nor pore behind fourth gill-arch, the 
laminae of which are much reduced; gill-rakers short, slender, toothed, 7 freely movable on horizontal 
limb of anterior arch. 
Spinous dorsal evenly rounded; third and fifth spines equal, fourth a little longer; second anal 
spine much longer and stronger than third, a little shorter than fourth dorsal; only 3 or 4 of the pec- 
toral rays branched, the upper 2 and the lower 10 or 11 simple; pectoral base not procurrent, the lower 
rays but little thickened and exserted; upper rays of lower division of fin longer than the others; 
ventrals reaching front of anal fin; vent separated from anal fin by a distance equaling one-fourth 
length of ventrals. 
Fig. 243 . — Sebastapistes coloratus Gilbert, new species. Type. 
Scales strongly ctenoid on sides, cycloid on belly, breast, and prepectoral area, these regions all 
completely invested; a small patch of ctenoid scales behind eye on uppermost portions of cheeks and 
opercles; remainder of head wholly scaleless. 
Color in spirits: Upper half of body largely bright rose-red or purplish, traversed by a few irregular 
curved lines of the grayish olive ground color, one crossing back under last dorsal spines, one under 
last soft rays; lower parts all light grayish olive; interorbital space and upper part of eye bright red, 
lower half of iris yellowish or golden; red blotches on cheeks, opercles, branchial membranes and 
roof of mouth; sides of head sometimes with bright pearly blotches, a small red spot or blotch near 
base of pectoral rays; dorsals reddish, with much white pigment, the red more intense near margin of 
fin, the tips of spines narrowly white; a small blackish spot on terminal portion of eighth to ninth 
dorsal spines. 
Specimens were taken at stations Nos. 3849, off the south coast of Molokai, 43 to 73 fathoms, and 
3850, off the south coast of Molokai, 43 to 66 fathoms. 
Scorpsenopsis altirostris, new species. Fig. 244. 
Type, 62 mm. long, from station 3849, off the south coast of Molokai, depth 43 to 73 fathoms; type, 
No. 51636, U. S. Nat. Mus. 
Head 52 hundredths of total length to base of caudal; diameter of orbit 15; width at middle of 
interorbital space 7; length of snout 14: length of maxillary 24; depth of body 40; least depth of caudal 
