182 SCORP.ENIB.E. 



prevails ; and in some few examples, during summer, it is very brilliant and pre- 

 dominant, even whilst the fish is still alive. 



On dissection, the liver is found to be large, and very pale in colour: the 

 gall-bladder large : the stomach rather long and cylindric, with the pylorus or 

 ascending branch lateral, and furnished with five distinct and nearly equal cseca, 

 disposed palmately or like the fingers of a glove, but in two sets, of three and two 

 each ; the former on the right or upper side ; the latter on the left or lower, and 

 with the outermost of the two the longest. The intestine is very large in diame- 

 ter, and makes two bends or one short volution. There is no air-bladder. Some- 

 times, but rarely, there are six cseca, in two sets of four and two. 



The four last only of the nine abdominal vertebrae are furnished with apophyses 

 beneath : and of these the three last are united nearly to their tips into single 

 processes, strongly winged behind, and forked, or notched, only at their tip. The 

 first two caudal vertebrae are similarly winged behind, but not notched. The 

 point of the first interspinal of the anal fin, which is both very long and strong, 

 being formed of the interspinals of the two first spines of the fin, united longi- 

 tudinally into one, is inserted into the notch of the last (ninth) abdominal inferior 

 apophysis. 



The figure is the size of life : being taken from an individual of the 

 more usually occurring length. The largest example which has occurred 

 measured only six inches. 



f. 1. represents the anterior and second suborbitary in Sebastes 



Maderensis, from an example four inches long. 

 f. 2. do. do. in Sehastes KuJilii, t. xvii. supra^ from an example 



eleven inches long. 

 f. 3. do. do. in Sebastes imperialism t. xxiv. supra, from an example 

 fourteen inches long. 

 All the figures in this plate are of the natural size. ff. 1, 2, and 

 3 are brought into their natural position relatively to a fish placed horizon- 

 tally with its head to the left hand of the spectator, by holding t. xxv. so 

 that the fish engraved thereon becomes vertical, with the head downwards. 



