106. SCORP^NID^ — SCOEP.EXA. 
G81 
least as Ligli as eye; large flaps ou preorbital and edge of preopercle, 
preocular, supraocular, tympanic, coronal, occipital, nuchal, and exocci- 
pital spines present; a deep pit behind coronal spines, as long as broad; 
preopercular and opercular spines moderate, bluntish, suborbital stay 
prominent, with 3 or 4 sharp spines; a few scales on preopercle and 
opercular flap; head otherwise naked; maxillary reaching to behind 
eye, not quite half head; lower jaw included; breast covered with small 
imbedded scales; scales of body large, not ctenoid, firm, many of them 
with membranous flaps; lateral line with a series of fleshy flaps. Dor- 
sal low, the highest spine 2| in head, somewhat lower than the soft rays; 
pectorals very broad, procurrent, reaching about to front of anal fin; 
second anal spine very robust, 2f in head, much larger than third. 
Head 2J in length; depth 3. D. XII, 10; A. Ill, 5; Lat. 1. 25 (rows 
of scales); about 40 pores. West Indies and both coasts of Mexico; 
occasional northward. Here described from specimens from Mazatlan, 
Mexico. 
(Bloch. Nya. Hamll.Stockh. x, *234, 1789 ; Bloch &. Schueider, 1801, 194 : Sco)ycena hiifo 
C. & V. iv, 306; Giiuther, ii, 113: Scorpcena rascacio Poey, Syuops. Pise. Cubens. 303.) 
cc. Breast uaked. 
103§. S. porcMS Ijiuu.— Fig-foot. 
Reddish brown, much mottled above with darker, and dotted with 
black; much less variegated than in S. ijlumieri^ usually a black blotch 
ou posterior half of spinous dorsal. Body oblong, comj)ressed; back 
somewhat elevated, highest at origin of spinous dorsal; suborbital stay 
close to eye, without any jjit between it and the eye; supraocular flap 
broad, a little lower than eye; no flaps on posterior edge of preop- 
ercle, four on occipital region, few along lateral line; reocular, supra- 
ocular, tympanic, occipital, exoccipital, and nuchal spines present; a 
pit before occipital spines; opercular and i^reopercular spines short; 
maxillary reaching posterior margin of orbit. Scales present ou post- 
ocular region and upper part of preopercle; scales ou body somewhat 
regularly placed; breast naked. Fins high; pectorals much less pro- 
current at base than in S. pliimien, reaching beyond tips of veutrals, 
which reach anal; spines slender, the second anal slender, little longer 
than third. Gill-rakers short and thick. D. XHl, 10; A. HI, 5; Lat. 
1. 40. Southern Europe; a specimen said to have been sent to Cuvier 
from Xew York. 
(Liun. Syst. Nat. ; C. & V. iv, 300; GUnther, ii,107.) 
