7. GLYPTAUCHEN. 121 



at the same place. The coracoid terminates in two spines superiorly, 

 the spine of the scapulary bone being veiy indistinct. The pubic 

 bones are distinctly formed by three lamellfe. 



Only eight vertehrce can be considered as abdominal, the first inter- 

 hnsmal spine being suspended on the ninth and tenth. The centra 

 of the second and thii-d vertebraB are much compressed in their lon- 

 gitudinal diameter ; the structure of the haemapophyses is the same 

 as in the other sjjecies. 



{Species the dentition of which is not knoicn.) 



20. Scorpaena chilioprista. 

 ? Scorpjena rubro-punctata, Cin\ & Vul. iv. p. 324. 

 Scorpa3na chilioprista, Ri'qip. N. W. Fische, p. 107. taf. 27. f. 3 



D.12|i A.|. 



Operculum and prseoperculum scaly ; orbital tentacles moderate. 

 Reddish-brown, clouded with darker; a broad lighter ring round 

 the tail. (Riipj>.) 

 Red Sea. 



21. Scorpsena laniaria.. 

 Cuv. ^ Val. iv. p. 324. 



D.H A.|. 



The third spine of the prseorbital is directed outwards. No skinny 

 flaps. Dorsal nearly even. Reddish, largely marbled with black 

 and dotted with white. {Cuv.) 



Sea of Guam. 



7. GLYPTAUCHEN*. 



Apistus, sp., Richards. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 58. 



Head and body compressed ; croAvn of the head with a deep saddle- 

 like impression. Scales very small. Preeorbital, prasoperculum and 

 operculum armed. Dorsal fin continuous, the spinous portion much 

 more developed than the soft, with seventeen spines ; the anal with 

 three. No pectoral appendage. ViUiform teeth in the jaws, on the 

 vomer and the palatine bones. Seven branchiostegals. 



King George's Soimd. 



1. Glyptauchen panduratus. 



Apistus panduratus, Richards. I. c. pi. 1. f. 3 & 4, and Ann. &■ Maa 

 Nat. Hist. 1851, vii. p. 274. "^ 



D.f A.|. V.l/o. 



The cleft of the mouth reaches to the vertical from the anterior 

 margin of the eye ; the seventh dorsal spine is the tallest ; the second 

 of the anal as long as the third, but stouter ; the pectoral is very 

 large, and reaches nearly to the origin of the anal. {Rich.) 



King George's Sound. 



* From y\v<f)(i) and avxi)v. 



