210 TRIGLID^. 



The scapula is oblong, broader inferiorly. Tbe coraeoid is nearly 

 straight, with two short processes for its junction with the scapula, 

 and with an exceedingly long and strong, ridged, bayonet-shaped 

 spine. The humerus is suspended at the inner side of the base of 

 that si^iae, and is a single, styliform, rib-Like bone. The ulna and 

 radius are separated from each other by a wide free space : the 

 former is situated before the upper cai'pal bone, and is similar in size 

 and shape to one of the larger carpal bones ; the radius is somewhat 

 elongate, triangular, provided mth a small foramen in the middle, 

 like the ulna. There are four car^oal bones, the upper of which is 

 small; the pectoral appendages are articidated to the two lower ones. 

 Each pubic bone has two limbs : the anterior is formed by three 

 lamellaj, the interior and inferior of which are the broadest, and the 

 inferior has the margin flattened ; the superior lamella is scarcely 

 developed ; the anterior limbs of both bones converge towards the 

 symphysis of the coracoids, leaving a small round opening between 

 them. The posterior limb, with its fellow, fonns a regularly trian- 

 gidar plate, emitting anteriorly a long process. 



There are thu'teen abdominal and twenty caudal vertebrce, the 

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

 of the caudal as 1 : 2. The zygapophyses of the last three or four 

 abdominal vertebra are sitigiilarly widened, and form a smooth con- 

 cavity at the lower side of the vertebrse. 



14. Trigla obscura. 



Cuculus, Rondel. Pise. Mar. i. lib. x. cap. 2 ; Gesn. Aquat. iv. p. 305 ; 



Aldrov. ii. cap. 4. p. 1.38. 

 Trigla obscura, L. 3It(s. Ad. Fried, ii. p. 94 ; Bl. Schn. p. 16 ; Bonap. 



Faun. Ital. Pesci, f. 1. 

 lucerna, Br linn. JVisc. Mass. p. 76 ; Risso, Ichth. Nice, p. 209 ; Cuv. 



Sf Val. iv. p. 72. pi. 72; Yarrell, Brit. Fishes, ed. 2. i. p. 6.3; Parn. 



Fishes Frith of Forth, p. 23. pi. 24 ; Guichen. Fxplor. Alger. Poiss. 



p. 40. 



cuculus, Risso, Hist. Nat. iii. p. 394. 



filaris, Otto, Conspect. pp. 7 & 8. 



D. 10 1 17-18. A. 17. L. lat. 68. Ciec. pylor. 8. Vert. |. 



Scales small; along the lateral line a series of large striated scales. 

 The second dorsal spine filiform, and much longer than the head. 

 Mediterranean ; western coasts of Europe. 



a. Adult. SicUy. Presented by W. Swainson, Esq. 



b. Fine specimen. Lisbon. Presented by the Eev. E. T. Lowe. 



c. Adult. 



d. Adult: stuffed. From Mr. Yarrell's Collection. 



€. Adult: skin. Plymouth. From Mr. YarreU's Collection. 

 f. Adult : sldn. From Mr. Yarrell's Collection. 



