G. SCORP^NA. 117 



14. Scorpsena haplodactylus. 



Scoi-pfena bandanensis, Bkeker, Banda, i. p. 237. 

 aplodactylus, Bleeker, Ceram. ii. p. 698. 



D. |. A. I-. L. lat. 25 (?). 



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

 the head three times. The upper portion of the operculum scaly. The 

 diameter of the eye is 3 to 3| in the length of the head ; the distance 

 between the eyes equals one-half or two-thirds of their diameter. 

 No groove below the eye ; jaws nearly equal in front. Vertex with 

 prominent spines ; orbital tentacles moderate. The spinous dorsal 

 is scarcely lower than the soft, and half as high as the body. 

 Brownish, marbled with darker : ventrals black, yellowish at the 

 base and margin ; anal yellowish, with a broad black longitudinal 

 band ; caudal with two bro-\vn cross-bands. {BI.) 



Seas of Banda and Ceram. (Feejee Islands ?) 



a-e. ? Young. Feejee Islands. Voyage of the ' Herald.' 

 15. Scorpaena panda. 



Scoi-psena panda, Richards. Ann. ?f May. Nat. Hist. 1842, ix. p. 216. 

 Sebastes pandus, Richards. Voy. JEreb. &■ Terr. Fishes, p. 70. pi. 41. 

 f. 3, 4. 



D. 12 1 1. A. |. L. lat. 67. 



The anterior part of the spinous dorsal very high, and the spines 

 nearly free, the length of the third spine being three-quarters of that 

 of the head ; the pectoral reaches to the middle of the anal fin ; the 

 interocular space veiy deep, the ca\-ity on the crown a narrow trans- 

 verse fiiiTow. Maxillary scaly. Head and back dotted with black ; 

 caudal with two broad blackish cross-bands. 



West coasts of Australia. 



a. Adult : skin. King George's Soimd. — Tj-pe of the species. 



B. Species without palatine teeth. 

 16. Scorpsena diabolus. 



Ikan Satan, Renard, ii. pi. 8. f. 35 ; Valent. iii. p. 399. f. 170 ; Duhamel, 



Peches, ii. sect. 5. p. 92. pi. 3. f. 1. 

 Scoipeena diabolus, Via: ^- Val. iv. p. 312; Richards. Ichth. Voy. Sidph. 



p. 76. pi. 40 ; Bleeker, Amhoina 8)- Ceram, p. 266. 



D. 11 1 ^. A. |. L. lat. 44. Vert. 24. 



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

 head 2|. The upper portion of the operciilum scaly. The length 

 of the snout is one-third of that of the head ; the ^ddth of the inter- 

 orbital space is much more than the diameter of the eye, and 4| in 

 the length of the head ; it is concave, ■without ridges ; vertex with a 

 quadrangular groove, either square or rather broader than long, and 



