16. AGEIOPUS. 137 



16. AGEIOPUS*. 



Agriopiis, Cuv. df Vul. iv. p. 380. 

 Cephalinus, Gronov. Si/sf. ed. Gray, p. 159. 



Head and body compressed, the former without or mth some 

 small spines ; prasorbital spineless. Cleft of the mouth small ; snout 

 produced. Scales none. One dorsal, the spinous portion ^vithout 

 division, beginning from the head, and with seventeen to twenty-one 

 spines ; anal short ; no pectoral appendages. Yilliform teeth in the 

 jaws ; generally none on the vomer. Pive branchiostegals. Air- 

 bladder present ; no pyloric appendages. 



Cape Seas ; Coasts of Chile ; South Australian Seas. 



If Cuvder's observation, that the skeleton of A. torvus is composed 

 of thirty-nine vertebra?, prove to be correct, this genus must be re- 

 moved from the Scorpcenina, and form probably a separate group. 



1. Agriopus torvus. 



Blennius torvus, Gronov. Act. Basil, ■vii. p. 47. tab. 3. f. 2. 

 Cor\'pli8ena torva, Bl. Schn. p. 298. 

 Agriopus torvus, Cuv. ^- Val. iv. p. 382. 

 Cephalinus glaber, Gi'otwv. Si/st. ed. Gi-ay, p. 159. 



D.?^. A.|. Vert. 18/21 ((7mv.). 



The height of the body is one-fourth of the total length. The 

 third dorsal spine as long as the head ; the length of the last is four 

 or five times in that of the third. Skin smooth. Brown, sometimes 

 marbled with blackish. 



Cape Seas. 



a. Adult: stuffed. Cape Seas. 



6, c. Adidt : stuffed. 



d. 27 inches long : stuffed. Presented by Mrs. J. E. Gray. 



c. 21 inches long : skin. From Gronov's Collection. 



2. Agriopus leucopoecUus. 

 Richards. Ichth. Ereb. ^ Terr. p. 60. pi. 37. f. 4, 5. 

 D.iZ. A. 10. 



The fourth and fifth dorsal spines are the longest, and shorter than 

 the head. No spine before the orbit. Skin smooth. Largely 

 marbled with black ; some irregular whitish blotches along the 

 lateral Kne. 



South Australian Seas. 



a. Adult : stuffed. Australian Seas. Presented by Capt. Stokes, R.N". 

 6. Adult : stuffed. King George's Sound. Presented by Sir John 

 Richardson. 



* 1. Agi'iopus unicolor. Burton, Proc. Zovl. Soc. iii. p. 116. — Cape Seas. 



