40 Mr. Bennett's Observations on Fishes 



The teeth in the upper jaw are similar to those of the preceding: 

 species: in the lower jaw there are no stronger teeth in front, but there 

 are in the middle of each side five larger than the others, the second and 

 third of them equalling in size the anterior ones of the upper jaw. 



Length 4 inches, breadth 1^ inch. 



8. ScORPiENA ASPERELLA. 



Sc. sordide fulvttf pinnd dorsali antic^ maculd rosed: cirrhis supers 

 ciliorum hinis : lined laterali vei^treque filamentis brevibus albis sparsis, 

 D. if. P. 17. V. i. A. |. C. 12. 



The prevailing colour is dull fulvous, with paler indistinct patches : 

 the anterior half of the dorsal fin is fuscous, with a rosy spot at its com- 

 mencement; the hinder half is hyaline, with the projecting tips of the 

 rays edged with black : the caudal fin is rounded, transparent, crossed 

 by two hhckish fascice: the anal is fuscous at the base, transparent in the 

 middle, and blackish at the tip : the pectoral is crossed by two blackish 

 bands, and by two irregular ones composed of numerous minute white 

 points giving to them a frosted appearance : the ventral fins are similarly 

 coloured with the latter. 



The head exhibits the asperity usual in this genus, but only in a 

 moderate degree : on its lower parts are a few short, flattened, white fila- 

 ments, and similar filaments are observed along the lateral line and on the 

 under parts of the body, being most numerous in the latter situation : 

 above each eye is a rosy-coloured drrhus, equaUing in length about 

 three-fourths of the diameter of the orbit, and somewhat lobed along its 

 edges; there is a shorter cirrhus on each nostril, and another, which is 

 pinnately branched, on the middle of each side of the upper jaw. 



Length nearly 2 inches, breadth ^ inch. 



9. ACANTHtJRUS FLAVESCENS. 



Ac. punctulatus, sub-asperus : flavescens, liturd longitudincdi guldque 

 albidis : caudd cequali, 



D. ^V P. 12. V.i. A. ^„. C. 16. 



The colour is yellowish throughout, except on the throat, the cheeks. 



