45. TRIGLA. 201 



Trigla lastoviza, Brihm. Pise. Mass. p. 99; LacSp. iii. pp. 340, 351. 

 adriatica, L. Gm. i. p. 1346 ; Bl. Schn. p. 15 ; Risso, Ichth. Nice, 



p. 204, and Hist. Nat. lii. p. 394 ; Martens, Reise nacli Venedig, ii. 



p. 430. tab. 11. 

 Duhamel, Peches, v. tab. 8. f. 5. 



D. 10-11 I 16-17. A. 16. L. lat. 65. Csbc. pylor. 10. Vert. 15/20. 



Scales very small ; those of the lateral line much larger, and with 

 a denticulated keel ; the sides crossed by vertical folds of the skin. 

 The upper profile of the snout descends very abruptly, approaching 

 the vertical Hue, and is very slightly concave. The space between 

 the eyes is deeply excavated, and two-thirds the diameter of the eye. 

 Prseorbital anteriorly obtuse, granulated. The first dorsal spine, and 

 sometimes the second and third, tubercular ; the second is equal to 

 the distance between the tip of the snout and the angle of the pra3- 

 operculum. The pectoral reaches to the vertical from the seventh or 

 eighth anal ray. Red : head and body dotted with brown ; pectorals 

 with larger blue spots, forming cross-bands. 



Mediterranean ; western coasts of Europe. 



a. Adult: stufi'ed. Plymouth. Presented by Lieut. H. F. Spence, R.N. 



b. Adult : skin. From Mr. YarreU's Collection. 



c. d. Adult : stuffed. 

 e. Adult. Lisbon. 



/. Fine specimen. Lisbon. Presented by the Rev. R. T. Lowe. 



g. Half-grown. Madeii'a. Presented by the Rev. R. T. Lowe. 



h. Half-grown. Sicily. Presented by W. Swainson, Esq. 



i. Young : bad state. Sicilj^ Presented by W. Swainson, Esq. 



Ic. Adult. Dalmatia. 



I. Half-groAvn. Adiiatic. From Mr. Frank's Collection, as Trigla 



aspera. 

 m. Half-gro^mi. 



n. Half-grown. From Mr. Frank's Collection. 

 0. Young. 



p. Adult : skeleton. Madeii-a. Presented by the Zoological Society. 

 q. Adult : skeleton. 



The skeleton difi'ers very little from that of Trigla pini : the eth- 

 moid is three times as long as broad ; the prjefrontals do not touch 

 each other, and are armed with prominent spines at the orbital mar- 

 gin. There are fifteen abdominal and twenty caudal vertebrae, the 

 length of the former portion of the vertebral column being to that of 

 the caudal as 1 : 1-5. 



3. Trigla hemisticta. 



Temm. ^ Schleg. Faun. Jajjon. Puiss. p. 36. pi. 14. f, 3, 4, pi. 14. B. 



D. 7 I 11. A. 11. 



Scales very small, those of the lateral Line a Httle larger, with a 



feeble and roughened keel. The snout is moderately elongate ; the 



interspace between the eyes is rather more than the width of the 



orbit. Praeorbital produced into a long, flat, triangular spine. Prse- 



