122 TIIIGLID,55. 



8. PTEROIS*. 

 Pterois, Cuv. Rbg)te Anim. ; Cuv. S,- Vol. iv. p. 351. 



Head and body compressed, the former armed with spines on its 

 upper surface and on the sides, and provided with skinny flaps ; no 

 groove on the occiput ; body covered with scales of moderate or 

 small size. One dorsal, deeply notched, with twelve or thirteen 

 spines ; anal short ; the spines and rays of some of the fins very 

 elongate and generally free, but branched ; no pectoral appendages. 

 Yilliform teeth in the jaws and on the vomer ; none on the palatine 

 bones. Seven branchiostegals. Air-bladder large ; pyloric append- 

 ages in small number. 



Tropical seas from the eastern coasts of Africa to Polynesia. 



1. Pterois volitans. 



Seha, iii. 28. 1 (bad) ; Renanl, Poiss. i. 6, 41, i. 43, 215, ii. 15, 72 ; 



Valentyn, Ltd. iii. p. 413. f. 210, and p. 415. f. 213 ; Lacep. ii. 1. 17. 



f. 3; iiMsseW, pi 13.3. 

 AmbojTiese visch, Nieith. Bras. Lant- en Zee-Reize, p. 268. 

 Gasterosteiis volitans, L. i. p. 491. 

 Perca, sp., Gronov. Zoophyl. no. 294. 

 Scoi-pffina volitans, L. Gm. i. p. 1217 ; Block, t. 184; Bl. Schn. p. 193; 



Gro?)ov. Si/st. ed. Gray, p. 119; Bennett, Fishes of Ceylon, pi. 1. 

 Scorpjena mahe, Lacep. iii. p. 278. 

 Pterois volitans, Cur. Sj-Val.iv. p. 352. pi. 88; Bleeker, Verhand. Batav. 



Geiiootsch. xxii. Sclerop. p. 8 ; Riipp. N. W. Fische, p. 107. 



D. 12 1 1. A. ^. L. hit. 90. Cicc. pyl. 3. Yert. 10/14. 



Nape of the neck naked ; the space between the eyes very concave, 

 its width being equal to the diameter of the eye, which is 1^ in the 

 length of the snout. The pectoral fins reach to, or beyond, the 

 caudal fin. Red : snout, head, and the whole body with a great many 

 narrow blackish cross-streaks ; all the rays of the vertical fins spotted ; 

 the spots on the pectoral and ventral fins larger and between the 

 rays. 



From the eastern coasts of Africa through all the Indian Seas to 

 the coasts of Australia. 



a. Adult : not good state. Egj-pt. Presented by J. Burton, Esq. 

 6. Half-grown. S. Africa. 



c. Young. Cape of Good Hope. Presented by Sir A. Smitli. 



d. Half-groAvn : not good state. Macbas. Presented by T. C. 



Jerdon, Esq. 



e. Adult. China. Presented by General Hardwicke. 



/. Half-grown : not good state. China. Presented by General 



Hardwicke. 

 rj. Adult Amboyna. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 

 h. Half-grown. Amboyna. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 

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

 h. Adult : bad state. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



* 1. Pterois radiata, {Snlnndrr) Cuv. 4' Vat. iv. p. 369. — Otaheiti. 



