106. SCORP.EXID.E SCORP.ENA. G81 



least as high as eye; large flaps on preorbital and edge of preopercle, 

 preocular, supraocular, tympanic, coronal, occipital, nuchal, and exocci- 

 pital spines present; a deep pit behind coronal spines, as long as broad; 

 preopercular and opercular spines moderate, bluntish, snborbital stay 

 prominent, with 3 or 4 sharp spines; a few scales on preopercle and 

 opercular flap; head otherwise naked; maxillary reaching to behind 

 eye, not quite half head ; lower jaw included; breast covered with small 

 imbedded scales ; scales of body large, not ctenoid, firm, many of them, 

 with membranous flaps; lateral line with a series of fleshy flaps. Dor- 

 sal low, the highest spine 2f in head, somewhat lower than the soft rays; 

 pectorals very broad, procnrrent, reaching about to front of anal tin; 

 second anal spine very robust, 2f- in head, much larger than third. 

 Head 2 in length; depth 3. D. XII, 10; A. Ill, 5; Lat. 1. 25 (rows 







of scales) ; about 40 pores. West Indies and both coasts of Mexico ; 

 occasional northward. Here described from specimens from Mazatlau, 



Mexico. 



(Bloch. Nya. Handl.Stockh. x, '234, 1789; Bloch &. Schneider, 1801, 194: Scorpana bnfo 

 C. &. V. iv,306; Giiuther, ii, 113: Scorpcona rascacio Poey, Syuops. Pise. Cubens.303.) 



cc. Breast naked. 



1O38. S. porcus Linn. Pig-foot. 



Eeddish brown, much mottled above with darker, and dotted with 

 black; much less variegated than in S. plumieri; usually a black blotcli 

 on posterior half of spinous dorsal. Body oblong, compressed; back 

 somewhat elevated, highest at origin of spinous dorsal; suborbital stay 

 close to eye, without any pit between it and the eye ; supraocular flap 

 broad, a little lower than eye; no flaps on posterior edge of preop- 

 ercle, four on occipital region, few along lateral line; preocular, supra- 

 ocular, tympanic, occipital, ex occipital, and nuchal spines present; a 

 pit before occipital spines; opercular and preopercular spines short; 

 maxillary reaching posterior margin of orbit. Scales present on post- 

 ocular region and upper part of preopercle; scales on body somewhat 

 regularly placed; breast naked. Fins high; pectorals much less pro- 

 current at base than in S. plumieri, reaching beyond tips of ventrals, 

 which reach anal; spines slender, the second anal slender, little longer 

 than third. Gill-rakers short and thick. D. XIII, 10; A. Ill, 5; Lat, 

 1. 40. Southern Europe; a specimen said to have been sent to Ctivier 

 from New York. 



(Linn. Syst. Nat. ; C. & V. iv, 300; Giiuther, ii,107.) 



