SCOPHTHALMIN^ 28 r 



Pectoral of ocular side with 1 1 or 1 2 rays, length J or less than J that of head. Caudal 

 rounded. Vertebras 9 + 26-28. Brownish, with darker spots and blotches ; some- 

 times with numerous small pale spots ; the most conspicuous markings are a pair of 

 broad bars, one sloping obliquely backwards above the upper eye, the other directed 

 obliquely downwards and backwards from the lower eye. a rounded blotch just behind 

 the curve of the lateral line, a smaller blotch below the base of the pectoral fin, extend- 

 ing on to the operculum, and two or three blotches, less well-defined, near upper and 

 lower edges of body ; median fins with spots and bars of dark brown. 



Fig. 213. — Zeugopteius pioiclaliis. U.M. (N.H.) I9:;S . 7. 12 . 13. < J. 



Type. — Zoologisches Museum der Universitat, Berlin. 



Distribution. — Coasts of western Europe, from the Trondhjera Fiord to the Bay 

 of Biscay.' 



Specimens Examined : 



Christiania6ord. CoUett. 



North coast of Norway. Brandt. 



Bfihuslan. Malm. 



Orkneys. Cowan. 



Cumbrae Light House, 60 fms. 

 Aberdeen Market. 

 Scotland. 



North Sea. 

 Scarborough. 

 Yarmouth (?). 

 Plymouth. 



Fish. Board Scotland. 

 Brook. 



Stookes. 

 Stevenson. 

 Patterson. 

 Studdy. 



Spain 



According to Buen (1926) this species has been recorded from the Mediterranean coast of 



