142 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxvii. 



a. Doi>al spines 13; scales not ciliated. 

 h. Scales very small, in 95 transverse series, 14 scales lietween median dorsal spines 

 and lateral line; soft parts of vertical tins with l)ro\vn sjjots; ventrals with 



yellow spots ; pectoral rays about 15 volUans, 36. 



bb. Scales larger, ' ' in 70 transverse series" (39 as usually counted) ; 8 scales between 

 median dorsal spines and lateral line; soft parts of vertical fins faintly spot- 

 ted; ventrals with dusky sijots; pectoral rays about 13... lunulata, 37. 



36. PTEROIS VOLITANS (Linnaeus). 

 MINOKASAGO (RAIN-COAT ROOKFISH) LION-FISH. 



Gasterosteus volitans Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., I, 175(S, p. 296, after Percn 

 dorso-monopterygio, capite cavernono of Gronow, Mua. No. 191. 



Pterois volitans Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 1829, \i. 352, 

 fig. 88; Molucca, Amboyna, He de France, Bourbon, Ceylon, Red Sea, Sey- 

 chelles, Pondicherry. — GtJNTHER Cat. Fishes, II, 1860, p. 122; Cape of Good 

 Hope, Madras, China, Aml)oina, Sydney, Cape Upstart, Fische der Siidsee, 

 1875, p. 81; Palauls., Tahiti.— Ishikawa, Prel. Cat., 1897, p. 50; Miyako- 

 shima, Riukiu Islands. 



Pseudomonopicrds volitdntt Bleeker, Acad. Roy. Sci. Amst., 1876, p. 44. 



Scorpxna miles Bennett, Fishes Ceylon, 1828, p. 2, Ceylon. 



Pterois muricata Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 1829, p. 363, 

 Red Sea. 



Iterois geniserra Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 1829, p. 366, 

 Ava. 



This species is thus described by Giinther: 



D. XII, I, 11; A. Ill, 6 or 7; scales 90, p\'Ioric caica 3; vertebrae 

 10 + 11. 



Nape naked, space between eyes vevy concave, the width equal to 

 the diameter of the e^^e which is If in snout. Pectoral fins reaching 

 to or beyond the caudal fin. Color red; snout, head, and whole body 

 with a great many blackish cross-streaks; all the rays of vertical fins 

 spotted, the spots on the pectorals and ventrals larger and between 

 the rays. 



This species is very widel}^ diffused throughout the East Indies. 

 Two specimens from the Riu Kiu Islands, one being from Miyakoshima, 

 are in the Imperial Museum of Tokyo. Another specimen is from 

 Ogosahara in the Bonin Islands. There is no other certain record from 

 Japan. 



{volitans, flying.) 



37. PTEROIS LUNULATA Schlegel. 

 MINOKASAGO," YAMANOKAMI (MOUNTAIN WITCH). 



Pterois lunulata Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 1843, p. 46, pi. xv; Nagasaki. — 

 Richardson, Ichth. China, 1846, p. 213; Canton. — Bleeker, Verb. Kon. 

 Ak. Wet., I, about 1862, p. 3; Japan.— GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish., II, 1860, p. 124; 

 Japan. — Steindachner and Doderlein, Fische Japans, II, 1884, p. 31; 



«Mino means Japanese rain coat. Kasago is an ancient name applied to Sebas- 

 tiscus marrnoratus. 



