6. SCOEP^NA, 107 



pendages. The spinous dorsal half as high as the body. Brown, 

 marbled and variegated with darker. 

 Seas of Ambojna and Sumatra. 



a, b. Half-grown. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



c. Young. Amboyna. From Mr. Frank's Collection. 



d-f. Yoimg. East Indies. Presented by Captain Sir E. fielcher. 



6. SCORP-ENA*. 



Scorpsena, Artedi, Genera, p. 47 ; Cuv. Sf Veil. iv. p. 286. 

 Scorpaena et Scorpoenopsis, Heck. Ann. Wien. Mas. ii. 1840, p. 158. 

 Scorpfena et Scorpsenichthys, (not Girard) Bleeh. Boeroe, p. 402, 



Head large, slightly compressed, with a naked groove on the occiput, 

 armed with spines, and generally with skinny flaps ; body covered 

 with scales of moderate or rather small size, and generally with 

 skinny appendages. One dorsal, more or less deeply notched, gene- 

 rally with the formula 11 1 r^ ; anal y. Ventrals thoracic ; pectorals 

 large, rounded; no pectoral appendages. Villiform teeth in the 

 jaws, on the vomer, and generally on the palatine bones. Seven 

 branchiostegals. Air-bladder none ; pyloric appendages in moderate 

 number. 



All the Tropical Seas, extending northwards into the Mediterra- 

 nean and along the Atlantic coasts of the United States. 



A. Species with palatine teeth. 



1. Scorpaena porcus. 



? Scorpaena, Salv. f. 201. 



Scorpaena, no. 1, Artedi, Genera, p. 47. 



porcus, L. Syst. i. p. 452 ; L. Gm. i. p. 1214 ; Briinn. Ichthyol. 



Massil. p. 32 ; Bl. taf. 181 ; Bl. Schn. p. 192 ; Lacep. iii. pp. 259, 

 275 ; Risso, Ichthyol. Nice, p. 187 ; De la Roche, Ann. Mus. xiii. 



* 1. Scorptena asperella, 5e«w. Zool.Journ.xv. 1829, p. 40, — Sandwich Islands. 

 S. scrofina, Cuv. Sf Val. vs.. p. 465. — Brazil. 



3. inermis, Cuv. 4' Val. iv. p. 311. — Martinique. 



4. — '- novas guinese, .Cuv. ^ Val. iv, p. 320. — S. papuensis, Cuv. ^ Val. iv. 



p. 321. — New Guinea. 



5. mauritiana, Cuv. ^ Val. iv. p. 322, — He de France. 



6. mossambica, Peters, in Wiegm. Arch. 1855, p. 241, — Mozambique. 



7. Scorpaenopsis neglecte, Heck. Ann. Wien. Mus. ii, 1840, p, 159, — East 



Indies. 



8. Scorpaena burra, Richards. I. c. p. 215. — Depuch Island. 



9. Russell, i. pi. 56. — Scorpaena venosa, Cuv. ^ Val. iv. p. 317, — Pondicherry. 



10, Scorpaena neglecta, Temm. Hf Schlcg. Faun. Japan. Poiss. p, 43, {51. 17. f. 4 : 



Richards. Ichth. Chin. p. 216. — Japanese Sea. 



11, fucata, Valenc. Voy, Venus, v. Zool. p. 313, pi, 3, f. 2. — Galapagos 



Archipelago, 



12, rawakensis, Quay ^ Gaim. Voy. Freyc. Zool. p, 325, — Polynesia, 



13, guamensis, Qiu>y Sf Gaim. I.e. p, 326. — Guam. 



14, guttata, Gir. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1854, p. 145, and V. S. Pact/. 



R. R. Exped. Fishes, p. 77. pi. 17. f. 1-4,— Coast of California. 



