402 
BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Color in alcohol: Dusky-brown and gray, everywhere mottled, except on ventral surface, which 
is uniformly pale; colors rather clouded on sides of body, each covering a large but indistinctly defined 
area, finely mottled on head and bases of pectorals; dusky-brown and gray forming irregular cross- 
bands on all the fins except spinous dorsal, which is mottled. 
This species is probably allied to Scorpxnopsis gibbosa Bloch & Schneider, 1 of the Red Sea, Indian 
Ocean, and Society and Samoan islands. It agrees with S. gibbosa in lacking palatine teeth, in having 
the strongly convex hump on the snout, and in having the lower pectoral rays thickened and bent 
inward, but differs in having a wider interorbital and in not having the dorsal spines shortened, the 
longest, the third, being in S. gibbosa 4 in head, and in S. cacopsis 3 in head. 
(Kcxkos, ugly; oipi s, the face.) 
One large specimen taken by me at Honolulu. Type No. 49690, U. S. N. M. 
The following gives the comparative measurements and the numbers of fin rays and scales: 
Scorpaenopsis cacopsis. 
No. 1. 
Scorptenopsis cacopsis. 
No. 1. 
347 
.14 
.40 
XII 
.35 
10 
.21 
5 
.24 
18 
Eye 
.06 
50 
.07 
Tubes on lateral line __ . 
25 
Snout 
.15 
Family PERCOPHXD-33. 
Parapercis pterostigma Jenkins, new species. Fig. 15. 
Parapercis Bleeker =Pcrcis, Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichthy., p. 179, 1807; Cuvier & Valenciennes, m, p. 259; Gunther, 
Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., ii, p. 237; not of Scopoli. 
Head about 4 in length of body; depth 6 in length. D. v, 21; A. 17. Body elongate; dorsal 
profile of head convex, gently rising from snout to nape, ventral profile of head symmetrical with 
dorsal. Eye 1.25 in snout. Interorbital about flat or almost imperceptibly concave, 1.5 in eye. Sub- 
orbital equal to interorbital. Opercular margin above with two small spines, below with minute 
serrations. Branchiostegals 6. Gillrakers very short, 10 on lower arm of arch. Fourth dorsal spine 
longest, equal to snout; first two spines very short, third but little shorter than fourth, fifth about 
equal to third. Soft rays of dorsal of uniform length, 2.5 in head, except first, which is shorter, and last, 
which is longer than the others. Anal similar to but shorter than soft dorsal, begins beneath fourth 
soft ray of dorsal. Caudal rather slender, deeply forked, lobes equal (rays in specimen examined 
broken, but longest probably equal to head.) Pectoral pointed, lower rays longest, 1.5 in head Ven- 
trals elongate, tapering, inner rays longest, equal to head; tips reach fourth anal ray. Teeth villiform, 
in bands in each jaw and in a crescentic patch on vomer; four canines in front of each jaw, those of lower 
jaw considerably smaller than those of upper; an outer series of slightly enlarged teeth in each jaw. 
Top of head, cheeks, sides of snout, jaws and fins naked, other parts scaled. Scales 7-61-15. 
1 Scorpxna gibbosa Bloch & Schneider, p. 192, pi. 44; Gunther, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., ii, p. 119, 1860; Fische der Siidsee, 
p. 79, pi. 53, 1873. 
