106. SCORPiENID^— SCORP.EXA. G81 



least as high as eye; large flaps on prcoibital aud edge of preopercle, 

 preocular, supraocular, tympanic, coronal, occipital, nuchal, and exocci- 

 IJital spines present; a deep i)it behind coronal spines, as loni:" as broad; 

 preopercular and opercular spines moderate, bluntisli, suborbital stay 

 prominent, with 3 or 4 sharp spines; a few scales on preopercle and 

 opercular flap; head otherwise naked; maxillary reaching to behind 

 eye, not quite half head; lower jaw included; breast covered with small 

 imbedded scales ; scales of body large, not ctenoid, flrm, many of them 

 with membranous flaps; lateral line with a series of fleshy flaps. Dor- 

 sal low, the highest spine 2f in head, somewhat lower than the soft rays; . 

 l^ectorals very broad, procurrent, reaching about to front of anal lin; 

 second anal spine very robust, 2f in head, much larger than third. 

 Head 2J in length; depth 3. D. XII, 10; A. 111,5; Lat. 1. 25 (rows 

 of scales); about 40 i^ores. West Indies and both coasts of Mexico; 

 occasional northward. Here described from specimens from Mazatlan, 

 Mexico. 



(Bloch. Nya. Handl.Stockh. x, 234, 1789; Bloch.& Sclineider, 1801, 194: Seorjuena biifo 

 C. &. V. iv,306; Giiutber, ii, 113: Scorpcena rascacio Poey, Syuops. Pise. Cubeus. 303.) 



CO. Breast naked. 



103§. S. porcMS l^inn.— Pig-foot. 



Reddish brown, much mottled above with darker, and dotted with 

 black; much less A^ariegated than in *S'. plumieri; usually a black blotch 

 on posterior half of spinous dorsal. Body oblong, compressed; back 

 somewhat elevated, highest at origin of spinous dorsal; suborbital stay 

 close to eye, without anj^ pit between it and the eye; supraocular flap 

 broad, a little lower than eye; no flaps on posterior edge of preop- 

 ercle, four on occipital region, few along lateral line; preocular, supra- 

 ocular, tympanic, occipital, exoccipital, and nuchal spines present; a 

 pit before occipital spines; opercular and preopercular spines short; 

 maxillary reaching posterior margin of orbit. Scales present on post- 

 ocular region and upper part of preoj^ercle; scales on body somewbat 

 regularly placed; breast naked. Fins high; pectorals much less pro- 

 current at base than in 8. plumieri, reaching beyond tips of veutrals, 

 which reach aniil; spines slender, the second anal slender, little longer 

 than third. Gill-rakers short and thick. D. XIII, 10; A. Ill, 5; Lat. 

 1. 40. Southern Europe; a specimen said to have been sent to Cuvier 

 from New York. 



(Linu. Syst. Nat. ; C. «& V. iv, 300; Guuther, ii, 107.) 



