102 TRIGLIDJi. 



the longest, 2i in the length of the head, and longer than the anal 

 spines. Reddish, with five brown cross-bands ; pharynx black. 

 New Zealand ; Van Diemen's Land ; Port Jackson. 



rt. Adult: not good state. Port Arthiu-. Presented by Sir J. 

 Kichardson. 



b. Adult : stuifed. Port Jackson. 



c. Adidt: bad state. Tasmania. Presented by the College of 



Surgeons. 



d. Adult : stuffed : bad state. Australia. 



e. Adult. From the Haslar Collection. 



/. Adult, Old Collection, as Scorpmia macrojjJithalma. 



15. Sehastes maderensis, 



Scoi-psena madurensis, Cuv. Sr Val. ix. p. 463. 

 Sebastes maderensis, Loice, TranS. Zool. Soc. ii. p. 176. 



D. 11 U. A.I-, L. lat. 50. CiBC. pylor. 7. Vert. 24. 



The height of the body is 3| in the total length, the length of the 

 head nearly 3|. The space between the eyes is concave, with two 

 low ridges, and its width is about one-seventh of the length of the 

 head. Vertex with prominent spines. No free tongue ; the upper 

 maxillary reaches behind the vertical from the centre of the eye. 

 The fourth dorsal spine is the longest, one-half the length of the 

 head ; the second of the anal fin is still longer. Five praeopercular 

 spines, the uppermost of which is the strongest ; coracoid with two 

 spines. Reddish-olive, with five rather irregular, brown, vertical 

 bars ; axil with reddish- wliite spots ; pharynx colourless. 



Sea of Madeira. 



a. Adult. Madeira. Presented by the Rev. R. T. Lowe. 



b. Adult : skeleton. Madeira. Presented by — Johnson, Esq. 



c. Adult. Madeira. Presented by the Rev. H. H. Methuen. 



d. Adult : stuffed. Madeira. From the Collection of the Zoological 



Society. 



e. Adult. Presented by the Lords of the Admiralty. 



The skeleton appears to be very much like that of the following 

 species, Sebastes huMii. There are twenty-fom- vertebrae ; the first 

 interhsemal is suspended on the haemal spines of the eighth and ninth 

 vertebrae. 



16. Sebastes kuhlii. 



Scorpsena kulilii, Bowd. Exc. in Mad. p. 123. 



Sebastes kuhlii, Lowe, Si/n. Fish. Mad. p. 176, and Fishes of Madeira, 

 p. 115. 



D. ll|^. A. I L. lat. 60. Vert. 10/14. 



The height of the body is 3| in the total length, the length of the 

 head three times. The space between the eyes is slightly concave, 

 with two low ridges, and its width is about one-eleventh of the 



