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of head flesh-color blotched and mottled with orange red, reddish-brown, and a little yellowish; breast 
and belly yellowish white with a little reddish; posterior part of belly blotched with brownish red; 
spinous dorsal mottled brown and clay-white, a small dark blotch on base of second membrane, above 
this a yellowish orange bar across second and third membranes, then a very broad brownish bar from 
top of second to base of fifth membrane; membrane of rest of fin pale mottled whitish or clay yellow'; 
soft dorsal similar, mottled with clay white, brownish and rosy; caudal with a broad pale bar at base 
then a broader brown bar mottled with darker, red and yellowish, followed by a narrower pinkish 
white border, the whole fin freely mottled ; anal mottled brown, reddish, whitish, and yellowish; pectoral 
mottled and barred with brownish on base, followed by alternating bars of brownish, pale yellow, and 
pinkish, the brownish confined chiefly to upper 
part of tin; ventrals white, crossed by rosy bars or 
spots, brownish toward tips; iris yellowish-brown, 
with small brown specks on outer part. 
Another example (No. 03385) was in life brown; 
belly cadmium with blotches of vermilion and 
brown; lower jaw pale cadmium with brown spots 
anteriorly, posteriorly with vermilion spots; dermal 
flaps of lower and upper jaw, and preopercle edged 
with vermilion and yellow, the dermal flaps ex- 
tending over maxillary and from behind, pectoral 
to base of caudal; dorsal marbled with deep brown, 
slightly olivaceous, the narrower markings of cad- 
mium, vermilion and pale blue; pectoral yellow 
with narrow irregular bands of brown at top, ver- 
milion toward bottom, outlined with brown; ven- 
tral yellow at base, then vermilion marbled with 
deep brown; anal same as pectoral; caudal yel- 
lowish at base, then a broad irregular band of dark 
brown marbled with vermilion, edge pink with a 
few small brown spots in the pink; iris yellowish 
with radiating marking of dark brown from edge 
of pupil. 
Color in alcohol, dark brown, mottled with 
blackish, and variegated with dark lilies; inside of pectoral variegated Avith brown, outer portion of 
upper rays blackish, also a large blackish brown spot on middle of spinous dorsal. One example 
(No. 05655) is very pale or whitish in alcohol, and the darker mottlings above are purplish. The 
flaps on the mandible are also rather long. 
We have examined 14 specimens, all from Honolulu, 13 of Avhich were secured by us. They range 
in length from 7.5 to 19.5 inches. The species is known only from Honolulu. 
Scorpxna cookii Gunther, Fische der Siidsee, III, taf. IV, 1874; the drawing only, which was made bj' Garrett from an 
Hatvaiian specimen of the present species. The Raoul Island species is the real S. cookii and a good species. 
Scorpsenopsis cacopsis Jenkins, Bull. TJ. S. Fish Comm., XIX, 1899 (June 8, 1901), 401, figs. 13 and 14, Honolulu (type, No. 
49690, U. S. N. M.); Jenkins, op. cit. XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903) (Honolulu). 
Scorpsenopsis cocopsis , Seale, Occ. Papers Bishop Mus., I, part 4, 11, fig. 5, 1901 (Honolulu). 
389. Scorpsenopsis gibbosa (Bloch & Schneider). “Nohu;” “ Omaiaha.” Plate 56 « and Fig. 206. 
Head 2.1 in length; depth 2.75; eye 7.25 in head; snout 3.1; interorbital 4.3; maxillary 1.8; D. 
xii, 10; A. hi, 5; P. 18; V. i, 5; scales 9-42-22. 
Body elongate, greatest depth at first dorsal spines; back elevated, swollen, or convex below first 
dorsal spines; snout rather long, with an elevated prominence; mouth large, oblique; maxillary large, 
expanded extremity broad, 6.5 in head; teeth in broad villiform bands in jaws, those on vomer small; 
no teeth on palatines; tongue small, pointed, free in front; lips rather thick, fleshy; eye small, a little 
in front of middle of length of head; a deep pit beloiv eye; top of head Avith deep square pit just 
behind interorbital space; anterior nostril Avith broad fleshy flap; posterior large, without flap; four 
Fig. 205a .—Scorpsenopsis cacopsis, dorsal vieAV of head. 
a Scorpsenopsis catocala on plate. 
