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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
symphysis of lower jaw, in having no spine on suborbital except on its end, in having 2 spines instead 
of only 1 at each anterior angle of occipital depression, and in greater length of maxilliary, which does 
not reach beyond posterior rim of orbit in S. onaria. 
Close to Scorpse.na nuchalis Gunther, from Raratonga Island (Fische der Siidsee, i, 76, 1873); 
differing from that species in having maxillary reaching past the posterior rim of eye; but the third, 
fourth and fifth spines largest, instead of the fourth to the seventh and the black blotch on the posterior 
part of the spinous dorsal (7-10 spines) instead of on the forepart. 
Only 3 specimens of this species known, all collected at Honolulu by Doctor Jenkins. 
Sebastapistes corallicola Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (September 23, 1903), 493, fig. 38, Honolulu. 
379. Sebastapistes asperella (Bennett). 
D. xn, 10; A. in, 8; P. 17; V. i, 6; C. 12. 
The prevailing color is dull fulvous, with paler indistinct patches; anterior half of dorsal fin fuscus, 
with a rosy spot at its commencement, posterior half hyaline, the projecting tips of the rays edged with 
black; caudal rounded, transparent, crossed by 2 blackish fasciae; anal fuscus at base, transparent in 
the middle, and blackish at tip; pectoral crossed by 2 blackish bands, and by 2 irregular ones composed 
of numerous minute white points giving to them a frosted appearance; ventral fins similarly colored. 
The head exhibits the usual asperity of this genus, but only in a moderate degree; on its lower parts 
are a few short, flattened, white filaments, and similar filaments along the lateral line and on the 
upper parts of the body, being most numerous in the latter situation; above each eve is a rosy colored 
cirrus, equaling in length about three-fourths of the diameter of the orbit, and somewhat lobed along 
its edges; there is a short cirrus on each nostril, and another, which is pinnately branched, on the middle 
of each side of the upper jaw. (Bennett.) 
Hawaiian Islands; not seen by us. 
Scorpxna asperella Bennett, Zool. Journ., IV, 1828, 40, Sandwich Islands; Gunther, Fische der Siidsee, III, 80, 1874 (after 
Bennett). 
380. Sebastapistes coniorta Jenkins. Fig. 200. 
Head 2.4 in length; depth 2.75; eye 3.4 in head; snout 3.25; interorbital 7; maxillary 2; mandible 
1.9; D. xii, 10; A. in, 5; P. 16; V. i, 5; scales 7-53-14. 
Body elongate, compressed, greatest depth at first dorsal spines; back slightly elevated; snout 
rather short, blunt, rounded; mandible large, rather strong; mouth large, slightly oblique; maxil- 
lary long, reaching below last fourth of eye; breadth of distal expanded extremity 2 in eye; fine teeth 
in bands on jaws, vomer, and palatines; tongue small, thick, pointed, little free in front; lips rather 
thin; nostrils close together, anterior with small fleshy flap; interorbital space rather narrow, con- 
cave; nasal, preorbital, supraorbital, postorbital, tympanic, parietal, and nuchal spines present; a 
ridge of spines from behind eye above opercle; a ridge of spines across cheek ending in a large spine 
on margin of preopercle, below which are 2 others; two large spines on opercle; preorbital with 
4 spines; fourth dorsal spine longest, 2.7; soft rays longer, fourth longest, 2.7; second anal spine 
longest, 2.2; first anal ray longest, 2.35; caudal rounded, 1.9; pectoral rather small, 1.8, rounded; 
ventral 1.7, spine 2.25; least depth of caudal peduncle 5; scales rather small, ctenoid, except those on 
belly, which are smooth; lateral line oblique to base of caudal. Described from an example (No. 
05769) from Honolulu. 
Color in life (No. 278, O. P. J. ), light olive, with dark brown mottlings, body, head, and fins cov- 
ered thickly with small brown spots; posterior margin of caudal red; fins color of body. 
Color in life (No. 03524), olive, with irregular brown areas on body and head; numerous small 
deep brown spots on head; fins olive, with brown markings, except the posterior half of the caudal, 
which is red, also upper and lower edges of same; edges of anal and ventral red; iris red. 
Color in alcohol, brown, marbled with dark brown forming about 3 broad ill-defined vertical 
bands; upper surface of body covered nearly everywhere with numerous small dark brown dots also 
extending on all the fins; spinous dorsal with deep brown blotch at middle of base; soft dorsal and 
anal each with last brown vertical band of trunk extending out on the fins; caudal with brown base 
and deep brown blotch on outer portion; a brown streak extending back from- eye, and a dark spot 
behind its upper margin; a deep brown blotch at tip of opercular flap. 
