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forked ; the anal very short, with three spines, of which the 

 middle one is the longest, and seven rays, the two first of which 

 are longer than the others ; ventrals inserted below the ninth spine 

 of the dorsal ; pectorals large, placed at the two inferior thirds of 

 the height ; the fifth ray longer than the others, the fourth nearly 

 equal ; all the simple rays much longer than the membranes that 

 unite them. 



Of a rather dirty silvery white ; a broad dark brown stripe 

 beginning below the fourth dorsal spine, and running along the 

 back, and covering the lower lobe of the caudal fin ; a similar 

 transverse oblique band runs from the anterior part of the dorsal 

 to the belly ; another is in front of this and runs behind the 

 pectoral ; a still more oblique band crosses the eye and extends 

 on the cheeks ; and a last runs round the mouth ; the fins are of 

 a brilliant yellow ; the anterior part of the ventrals and the 

 membranes, between the third to the eighth dorsal spines, 

 brown. 



The specimen is eight inches long, and was caught at the end 

 of June. 



The Gheilodactylus vestitus (Garrett, Proceed. Calif. Acad. 

 1863) so handsomely figured by Dr. Gunther (Mus. Godefi'roy, 

 pi. 41) must also be placed in this genus. It is very similar in 

 form and in the disposition of colours to the Australian sort, but 

 five rays of its pectorals are much shorter, and it has four small 

 spines in front of the long dorsal on^. It comes from the Sand- 

 wich Islands. 



ScORPuENA CARDINALIS. 



ScorpcBna cardinalis, Rich. ; Ann. A. Mag. Nat. H., 1842, p. 212. 



Principally distinguished from cruenta by the entire or nearly 

 entire absence of the black blotch of the first dorsal. 



Also called Rock Cod at Sydney. 



Generally of a beautiful scarlet colour ; sometimes brown on 

 the back. 



SC0RP(ENA CRUENTA. 



Scorpcena cruenta, Solander; Richards Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 



184^2, p. 217. 

 militaris ; Voy. Ereb. and Terror, Fishes, p. 21, pi. 14, 

 fig. 1—2. 



