G. SCOKPJilJA. 117 



14. Scorpsena haplodactylus. 



Scoi-paena bandanensis, Sleeker, Banda, i. p. 237. 

 aplodactylus, Sleeker, Ceram. ii. p. 698. 



D. i?. A. 4. L. lat. 25 (?). 



The height of the body is 3| to 3^ in the total length, the length of 

 the head three times. The upper portion of the operculum scaly. The 

 diameter of the eye is 3 to 3 1 in the length of the head ; the distance 

 between the eyes equals one-half or two-thirds of their diameter. 

 No groove below the eye ; jaws nearly equal in front. Vertex with 

 prominent spines ; orbital tentacles moderate. The spinous dorsal 

 is scarcely lower than the soft, and half as high as the body. 

 Brownish, marbled with darker : ventrals black, yellowish at the 

 base and margin ; anal yellowish, with a broad black longitudinal 

 band; caudal with two brown cross-bands. {Bl.) 



Seas of Banda and Ceram. (Feejee Islands ?) 



a~e. ? Young. Feejec Islands. Voyage of the ' Herald.' 



15. Scorpsena panda. 



Scorpaena panda, Richards. Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. 1842, ix. p. 210. 

 Sebastes pandus, Richards. Voy. Ereb. 8f Terr. Fishes, p. 70. pi. 41. 

 f. 3, 4. 



D. 12||. A. 4-. L. lat. 67. 



The anterior part of the spinous dorsal very high, and the spines 

 nearly free, the length of the third spine being three-quarters of that 

 of the head ; the pectoral reaches to the middle of the anal fin ; the 

 interocular space veiy deep, the cavity on the crown a narrow trans- 

 verse furrow. Maxillary scaly. Head and back dotted \sdth black ; 

 caudal with two broad blackish cross-bands. 



West coasts of Australia. 



a. Adult : skin. King George's Sound. — T}T)e of the species. 



B. Species without palatine teeth. 

 16. Scorpaena diabolus. 



Ikan Satan, Renard, ii. pi. 8. f. 35; Valent. iii. p. 399. f. 170 ; Duhamel, 



PecTles, ii. sect. 5. p. 92. pi. 3. f. 1. 

 Scorpsena diabolus, Cuv. Sf Val. iv. p. 312; Richards. Ichth. Voy. Sulph. 



p. 76. pi. 40 ; Sleeker, Amboina ^- Ceram, p. 266. 



D. 11 1 J-. A. ^. L. lat. 44. Vert. 24. 



I 10 5 



The height of the body is 3§ in the total length, the length of the 

 head 2|. The upper portion of the operculum scaly. The length 

 of the snout is one-third of that of the head ; the width of the inter- 

 orbital space is much more than the diameter of the eye, and 4| in 

 the length of the head ; it is concave, without ridges ; vertex with a 

 quadrangular groove, either square or rather broader than long, and 



