1840 Bidletin ^7, United States National Illnsenm. 



a. Breast 8caly. 



b. Occiput with a distinct quadrate pit. 



c. Supraocular tentacle less tlian twice diameter of orbit. 

 d. Dorsal rays XII, 9. 



e. Top of head scaleless, 3 small spines on suborbital carina. 



AGASSIZII, 2236. 

 ee. Top of head not wholly scaleless, tho interorbital space incompletely 

 scaled; suborbital carina with 6 spines. CEISTULATA, 2237. 



dd. Dorsal rays XII, 10. 



/. Anterior border of orbit with no distinct pit below it. 



ff. Suborbital stay with 3 distinct spines; third anal spine 

 longer and stronger than second. brasiliensis, 2238. 



f/g. Suborbital stay without spines; cheeks more or less scaly; 

 second anal spine longer and stronger than third. 

 h. Pectorals 20, about 7 or 8 branched; ventrals reaching 

 beyond vent ; flap above base of pectoral with contin- 

 uous edge. HiSTRio, 2239. 

 hh. Pectorals 19, about 10 branched; ventrals not reaching 

 beyond vent; flap above base of pectoral much tat- 

 tered, pannosa, 2240. 

 ff. Anterior border of eye with a distinct pit between it and sub- 

 orbital stay. 

 i. Lateral lino with about 50 scales; no dermal flaps except small 

 ones along lateral line; supraorbital tentacles small; axil 

 pale, mostly unspotted. guttata, 2241. 

 ii. About 30 scales on lateral line, most of the scales with dermal 

 flaps ; supraorbital flap large, longer than eye ; axil black, 

 with large white spots. 

 j. Color rather pale or reddish; interorbital area narrow; 

 occipital pit deep. plitviieei, 2242. 

 jj. Color blackish; interorbital space broader and flatter; 

 occipital pit broader and less deep. mystes, 2243. 

 cc. Supraocular tentacle more than twice diameter of eye ; flaps on lateral line 

 longer than eye ; suborbital stay with a small spine near its center, another 

 at its posterior end ; axil gray with many small white spots. 



GEANDICOENIS, 2244. 



bb. Occiput with only a very shallow depression or none. 

 I: Pectoral with 4 or more branched rays. 



I. Occiput with a very shallow but distinct depression : suborbtial stay evi- 



dent, with several small spines. eussula, 2245. 



II. Occiput with no depression, or only a slight crescentic notch; suborbital 



stay very low, a minute spine at its posterior end. SONOe^, 2240. 

 kk. Pectoral with but 2 branched rays ; no pit at occiput. ineemis, 2247. 



223G. ISCORP.E>'A AGASSIZII, Goodc & Bean. 



Head about 2^; depth about 3; eye 2^ in head. D. XII, 9: A. Ill, 5; P. 

 20; scales 5-47-11, 28 tube.s iu lateral line. Width ol' head about ^ its 

 length; interorbital space nearly 5 in head. Supraocular ridge elevated 

 above general profile, snout alnuptly declivous and very short, less than 

 i length of eye. Maxilla reaching posterior margin of orbit, 2 in head ; 



blotch on posterior half of spinous dorsal. Southern Europe ; a specimen said to have 

 been sent toCuvier from New York by Milbert, a statement extremely doubtful. 

 Scorpcena porcus, LiNNiEUS, Syst. Nat., Ed. x, 226, 1758, Mediterranean and ocean; after 



Scorpcena pinnulis at ocnlis et nares of Aetedi; Cuvier it Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. 



Poiss., IV, 300; Gunthee, Cat., ii, 107. 



