432 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



The lieiglit of tlie body is three times and two-thirds in the 

 total length, the length of the head three and a fifth. Clieeks 

 and upper part of operculum with rudimentary scales. The space 

 between the eyes exceedingly deep, with a central and two lateral 

 ridges ; its width is half the diameter of the eye, which is one- 

 fifth of the length of the head. A slight groove below the eye ; 

 crown of the head with very strong, compressed, trenchant spines, 

 and with a groove which is divided into a central and two lateral 

 portions. Orbital tentacles sometimes present. The spinous 

 dorsal as high as the soft ; the third and fourth spines longest, 

 and twice and a-half in the length of the head ; the eleventh 

 spine not half the length of the twelfth. The second anal spine 

 strong with a longitudinal groove. Colour red, marbled and 

 spotted with brown. 



Port Jackson. 



287. ScoRP^NA PANDA, Eichards. 



Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1842, IX., p. 216.— Voy. Erebus and 



Terror, lol. 41, f. 3-4.— Gunth. Cat. Fishes II., p. 117. 



D. 12. 1/8. A. 3/5. L. lat. 67. 



The anterior part of the spinous dorsal very high and the spines 

 nearly free, the length of the third spine three-quarters that of 

 the head ; pectoral fin reaches to the middle of the anal ; the 

 interocular space is very deep, the cavity on the crown a narrow 

 transverse furrow. MaxiUary scaly. Head and back dotted 

 with black ; caudal fin with two broad blackish cross-bands. 



King George's Sound. 



288. ScoRPiENA suMPTUOSA, Castcln. 



Researches on the Fishes of Australia, p. 17. 



D. 10. 1/10. A. 3/5. 



Palatine teeth strong, disposed in a transverse band, height of 

 body three and a-half times in the total length, the head less than 



