456 
BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
larger; nasal, preocular, supraocular, postocular, tympanic, parietal, coronal, and nuchal spines pres- 
ent; a ridge of spines across cheek ending in a spine on edge of opercle below 3 other spines; a ridge 
of spines behind eye and above opercle; 2 large spines on opercle; 4 preorbital spines present; fourth 
dorsal spine longest, 2 in head; penultimate 4.5; last. 3; third dorsal ray longest, 2 in head; second 
anal spine longest, 2.2; second anal ray longest, L8; caudal rounded, 1.5; pectoral 1.35; ventral 1.5, 
its spine 2.6; caudal peduncle compressed, its least depth 4; scales rather large, ctenoid; lateral line 
running obliquely down to base of caudal. 
Color in life, head and body light olive-green; back with a large pale-blue area extending from 
under middle of spinous dorsal to lateral line; a similar but smaller spot under first dorsal rays, inter- 
rupted just above lateral line, then continued to base of anal spines, where it connects with the same 
color of belly; caudal peduncle crossed by 3 irregular lines or blotches of same color; breast jiale blue, 
lower jaw whitish, tipped with red; upper jaw whitish, with many narrow red cross lines; cheek, 
opercle, and side of body with many very small, round, red spots, most numerous on head and base of 
pectoral; spinous dorsal dusky bluish, the membranes yellowish or greenish at tips, and around black 
spot on distal part of eighth, ninth, and tenth membranes, these spots confluent; soft dorsal pale 
bluish, with yellowish wash near base, also near border, and with 3 or 4 series of double, short, ver- 
tical brick-red lines on the rays; caudal similar to soft dorsal; anal pale bluish and yellowish; 1 or 2 
red spots on spines; pectoral pale bluish with 5 or 6 cross series of light-red spots, the lower rays 
with much red; ventral rosy red at base, then greenish, then rosy red, pale at tip; eye whitish, with 
radiating brick-red areas. 
Color in alcohol, pale brown, marbled above and on side with darker; vertical fins with pale 
brown, the soft or rayed portions each with 2 broad series of gray-brown spots; base of caudal brown- 
ish; pectoral and ventral pale brown, the basal portion of lower rays of former, and middle of latter, 
deep brown; marginal portion of membrane among eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh dorsal spines 
blackish. 
Described from an example (No. 625) taken at Honolulu. 
We identify with this species, poorly described by Vaillant and Sauvage, a large series of speci- 
mens (85) from Honolulu, Waikiki and Hilo, ranging in length from 1.4 to 4.25 inches. 
SCorpasna ballieui Sauvage, Rev. Mag. Zool. (3), III, 1875, 278, Sandwich Islands. 
378. Sebastapistes corallicola Jenkins. Fig. 199. 
Head 2.5 in length; depth 2.75; pectoral slightly less than 3 in length; ventral 3.3; caudal equal 
to ventral; eye 4 in head, a little shorter than snout; D. xii, 9; A. in, 5; C. 19; P. 16; V. i, 5; scales 40 
in the lateral line, 6 in series from fourth dorsal to lateral line, 14 from origin of anal to lateral line; 
mouth but little oblique, lower jaw projecting very slightly; maxillary 1.6 in head, projecting beyond 
posterior margin of eye; teeth all small and simple, in bands in upper and lower jaws, bands interrupted 
at front; teeth on vomer in a V-shaped patch, in bands on the palatines equal in length to width of 
vomerine patch; suborbital 1.5 in eye; a pit below anterior lower angle of eye, anterior nostril trans- 
versely oval, with a tentacle in the inner posterior part of rim; posterior nostril simple, circular; snout 
with a triangular median elevation, the apex between the anterior nostrils; between each anterior 
nostril and apex of rostral elevation is a strong short spine; 6 spines on the upper half of ocular rim, 
first at upper anterior angle, second on upper rim over center of pupil, third over posterior margin of the 
pupil, fourth on level with upper edge of pupil, fifth back of center of pupil, sixth on level of lower 
edge of pupil; sixth bifid on each side, fifth bifid on right; occipital depression with 2 spines at each 
angle, one lateral to the other at the anterior angles, one caudad to the other at the posterior angles; 
a strong spine at upper end of opercle; posterior to this spine and a little above it 2 smaller spines just 
before upper end of gill-slit; posterior to these a single spine at upper end of gill-slit; two large 
diverging spines on opercle; suborbital with a bony ridge without spines except a small one on its posterior 
end; preorbital with 3 spines, 2 directed downward over upper edge of maxillary, the other forward 
over edge of premaxillary; at angle of preopercle an upper small and a lower larger spine, below these 
on arm of preopercle 4 decreasingly smaller spines; supraorbital tentacle well developed, just back of 
supraorbital spine; a tentacle back of posterior vertical spine, lapping over edge of maxillary; a strong 
spine at angle of shoulder-girdle above base of pectoral, sharp-pointed, projecting upward and backward; 
a small, less prominent spine back of this one; gillrakers short, 5-j-10; interorbital space slightly con- 
