120 TlUGLID^. 



the depth of the body. Rose-coloured, largely marbled with brown ; 

 the spinous dorsal g-enerally with a black blotch between the sixth 

 and seventh spines. Pectoral fins superiorly (exteriorly ?) with a 

 broad pui-plish cross-band at the base and the tip ; axil with many 

 black dots ; caudal with two broad purphsh cross-bands. (Bl.) 

 Seas of China and Amboyna. 



19. Scorpaena cirrhosa. 



Perca ciiThosa, Thunb. Nya Handl. Stockh. xiv. 1793, p. 199. pi. 7. f. 2. 

 Scoi-psena cirrhosa, Cut: Sf Val. iv. p. 318 ; Faun. Japan. Poiss. p. 42. 



pi. 17. f. 2, 3 ; Sleeker, Verhand. Batav. Genootsch. xxvi. p. 79. 



barbata, Itiqyp. N. W. Fische, p. 105. taf. 27. f. 1. 



? Scoi-peena leonina, Richards. Ichth. Cliin. p. 216 (in Reeves's figure 



the orbital tentacles are well developed). 

 Scorpseua oxycephalus, Bleek. Sclerop. p. 20, i^- Verh. Batav. Genootsch. 



xxii. Sclerop. p. 7. 



D. 11 1 1. A. |. L. lat. 54-58. Vert. 8/16. 



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

 head 2|. Temple, operculum and subopercidum scaly. The length 

 of the snout is nearly one-third of that of the head, the width of the 

 space between the orbits about one-eighth. The space between the 

 orbits deeply concave, with two ridges, which do not terminate in 

 spines; vertex with a very shallow groove, surrounded by strong 

 spines ; a deep groove below the anterior angle of the orbit. The 

 thu-d dorsal spine is the longest, one-third the length of the head, 

 and more feeble and rather shorter than the second of the anal. 

 Orbital tentacles none or small, those on the angle of the mouth well 

 developed. Red, clouded with violet and sparingly dotted Avith black ; 

 the spinous dorsal sometimes with a black blotch. 



East Indian, Chinese, and Japanese Seas. 



a. Adnlt. China. Presented by J. R. Reeves, Esq. 

 6. Adiilt. China. Presented by J. R. Reeves, Esq. 



c. Adult. China. 



d. Half-grown. China. 



e. Half-grown : stuifed. China. Presented by J. R. Reeves, Esq. 

 /. Young. China. 



g. Adult: stuifed. Japan. 



h. Adult. Amboyna. Purchased of Mr. Frank as Sc. oxycephalus. 



i. Adult : skeleton. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



l\ Fine specimen. Raoul Island. Voyage of the ' Herald.' 



Skeleton. — It is very much like that of Scorpcena diaholus, but 

 is distingiiishcd from it by the structnre of the principal frontal 

 bones, which, in this species, are narrow between the orbits and 

 deeply excavated. Each is provided with a narrow muciferous 

 channel, situated laterally to the ethmoid bone, which extends rather 

 far backwards between the frontal bones. Several bones of the skull 

 of Scorpcena diaholus are armed with clusters of small spines, whilst 

 those bones in the present species bear only a single stronger spine 



