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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Scorpsena nesognllica Cfivier <£ Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 315, 1829, Isle of France; Haeckel, Ann, Wien Mus., II, 
1840, 159. 
Scorpsenichthys gibbosus, Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., XI, 1856, 402. 
Scorpsenopsis gibbosus, Bleeker, Enum. Spec. Pise. Arcli. Ind., 41,. 1859 (Sumatra; Nias; Amboyna: Banda). 
Scorpxna diabolus, Ivner, Novara Fisch., 117, tab. 6, fig. 1 (not of C. & V.), in Zoologischer, I, 1865. 
Scorpsenopsis diabolus, Fowler, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1900, 515 (Honolulu). 
Scorpsenopsis catocala Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Apr. 11, 1903), 201, Honolulu (Hilo); Snyder, 
op. cit. (Jan. 19, 1904), 536 (Honolulu). 
Genus 217. IRACUNDUS Jordan & Evermann. 
Allied to Ilelicolenus and Pontinus. Body rather elongate, compressed, covered with small, weakly 
ctenoid scales; fins not scaly; head not depressed; formed as in Sebustodes, the spines moderately 
developed; head and body with dermal flaps; teeth on jaws and vomer, none on palatines; dorsal fin 
deeply divided, the spines 11 or 12, the fourth much elongate; pectoral rays undivided; anal rays iii, 
5 or 6; ventral rays i, 5; caudal rounded; vent at base of first anal spine; air-bladder obsolete. 
Iracundus Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Pish Comm., XXII, 1902 (July 9, 1903), 209 ( signifer ). 
390. Iracundus signifer Jordan & Evermann. Fig. 207. 
Head 2.4 in length; depth 3.2; eye 4 in head; maxillary 2; D. x, i, 9; A. hi, 5; P. 17; V. i, 5; 
scales about 9-55-30, about 45 pores. 
Body rather elongate, moderately compressed, the head conic, not depressed; mouth large, 
oblique, the lower jaw slightly projecting, the maxillary reaching to opposite posterior margin of 
pupil; teeth in moderate bands in the jaws, the inner teeth in the upper jaw slightly largest; vomer 
with small teeth; palatines toothless; interorbital area deeply concave, little wider than pupil; spines 
on top of head low and rather sharp, much as in Sebastodes; preocular, supraocular, postocular, tym- 
panic, occipital, and nuchal spines present; a ridge with 2 spines outside the tympanic spine; preor- 
bital moderate, about as wide as eye, with a sharp spine turned forward and a blunt spine turned 
backward; suborbital stay a narrow, simple ridge, reaching base of preopercular spine, which is 
straight and very short; 3 lower preopercular spines reduced to blunt points; opercle with 2 slender 
diverging spines, the upper the larger, their points not reaching edge of membrane; head with numer- 
ous broad, fleshy flaps; a f rinsed flap at the nostril, 2 on edge of preorbital, 2 on lower limb of 
preopercle, and a high fringed flap above eye, about as long as pupil; small simple flaps on the cheek, 
the end of the maxillary, and elsewhere on head; large pores on lower jaw, under suborbital stay, and 
Fig. 207. — Iracundus signifer Jordan & Evermann; from the type. 
