REPORT ON FISHES COLLECTED TN THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
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Characters very constant. In smaller specimens the posterior spines of orbital rim not so evident 
as in type and in most the humeral spine smaller. Size of supraorbital tentacle varies much, in some 
very small or absent, in others very large, fringed, length greater than eye, equal to second dorsal spine. 
In alcohol the color varies considerably ; in some, fins distinctly banded, in others, fins plain. Some 
lack the black blotch on posterior part of spinous dorsal, others have it present but small, others have it 
well developed and reaching from sixth to eleventh spine. A series of dermal flaps along lateral line, also 
anumberof smallerones on lower half of sides; lateral line simple, slightly convex downward posteriorly. 
Color of type (field No. 236) in alcohol, head and body mottled with lighter and darker shades of 
brown, plain pale below; a wide pale transverse band on nape (very indistinct); spinous dorsal with 
dusky blotch from seventh to tenth spines on distal half of fin; other fins mottled with brown in trian- 
gular transverse bands; a dusky rim above margin of eye on eye membrane; dermal flaps white. 
Color of fresh specimen (field No. 223), whitish, with brow'nish cloudings and many bright red 
spots on head, body, and fins; black blotch on dorsal fin on eighth to tenth spines, fin clouded with 
l| dark bars; dermal flaps white. 
Another fresh example (field No. 206), golden brown on body and fins, with many very bright red 
spots; a black blotch on spinous dorsal on seventh and ninth spines longer than eye but not so deep. 
Closely related to Scorpiena Jordan & Snyder from Japan, but differs in lacking knob at symphysis 
of lower jaw, in having no spine on suborbital except on its end, in having 2 spines instead of only 
one at each anterior angle of occipital depression, in greater length of maxillary, not reaching beyond 
posterior rim of orbit in S. onaria; in having vomerine teeth both V-shaped and not V-shaped. 
Otherwise very similar. 
Close to Scorpiena nuclialis Gunther, from Raratonga Island (Fische der Sudsee, i, 76, 1873); 
differs from this species in having maxillary reaching past the posterior rim of eye; in having the 
third, fourth, and fifth spines largest, instead of the fourth to the seventh largest; in having the black 
blotch on the posterior part of the spinous dorsal (7-10 spines) instead of on the fore part. 
My collection contains 3 specimens, all from Honolulu. Type, No. 50691, U. S. N. M. (field No. 236) ; 
cotype, No. 7729, L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus. (field No. 223); and cotype, No. 2756, U. S. F. C. (field No. 206). 
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225. Sebastapistes coniorta Jenkins, new species. 
Head (to end of bony opercle) 2.5 in length; depth 2.5; eye 2.75 in head; snout 3.3; interorbital 
2 in eye = suborbital; pectoral 3.6 in length; ventral 4; caudal equal to ventral; D. xii, 9; A. ur, 5; 
C. 19; P. 15 (lower 9 simple); V. i, 5; lateral line 8-46-10. Head and body compressed, greatest 
width through base of pectorals, 4.25 in length of body, 1.6 in depth; dorsal profile of body very 
convex, greatest depth through base of third dorsal spine; ventral profile of body only gently convex; 
profile of snout steep, forming an angle before eye with very gently rising part of profile of head 
behind eye; interorbital area deeply concave, with 2 well-developed longitudinal ridges, diverging 
posteriorly behind, but not ending in a spine, although a spine arises just behind the posterior end of 
each; back of each of these are 2 occipital spines; 5 supraocular spines, a row of 5 postocular spines, 
the last above the upper end of gill-slit, a spine just above penultimate spine of postocular row' of 
spines, 2 flat spines at angle of opercle, upper the larger; 6 spines on low'er limb of preopercle; 
suborbital stay mostly small, with 2 small spines posteriorly; preorbital with 4 spines — 2 directed 
forward, 1 posteriorly, and 1 downward and posteriorly; no dermal appendages on head, except a 
short wide flap on upper edge of anterior nostril; teeth in jaws in bands, widest in front, in short 
narrow bands on palatines, in V-shaped patch on vomer; 2 strong flat spines at humeral angle above 
, base of pectoral, lower the larger; nasal spine at inner edge of each anterior nostril; fourth dorsal 
spine longest, 2 in head; first short, 2.5 in fourth; eleventh spine slightly greater than first; twelfth 3 
in head, longer than tenth, slightly larger than second dorsal spine; second dorsal rays abruptly longer 
than last spine, first rays longest, 2.2 in head; last ray connected by membrane with caudal peduncle; 
caudal slightly rounded; pectoral broad with wide base, border rounded, median rays longest; ventrals 
rather broad, first and second rays longest, spines strong; second anal spine longest and thickest, 1.6 
in head, longer than longest dorsal spines and equal to caudal fin; first spine short and slender, a little 
less than half length of second spine; third spine slender, equal to third dorsal spine; first soft anal 
rays longest, equal to second anal spine, longer than longest dorsal rays; gillrakers 4-10, the lowermost 
one on lower arm of arch rudimentary, all short, upper ones of lower arm of arch longest but less 
than half length of pupil; branchiostegals 7; lateral line beginning at last postocular spine, above 
