] 20 TllIGLID^. 



the depth of the body. Rose-coloured, largely marbled with bro-wn ; 

 the spinous dorsal generally with a black blotch between the sixth 

 and seventh spines. Pectoral fins siipeiiorly (exteriorly ?) with a 

 broad purjilish cross-band at the base and the tip ; axil with many 

 black dots ; caudal with two broad purplish cross-bands. (Bl.) 

 Seas of China and AmbojTia. 



19. Scorpsena cirrhosa. 



Perca cirrhosa, TJiunb. Nija Handl. Stockh. xiv. 1793, p. 199. pi. 7. f. 2. 

 Scorpfena cirrhosa, Cuv. i^ Val. iv. p. .318; Faun.Japoti. Poiss. p. 42. 



pi. 17. f. 2, 3 ; Bleeker, Verhand. Batav. Genootsch. xxvi. p. 79. 



barbata, Riipp. N. W. Fische, p. 105. taf. 27. f. 1. 



? Scoi-pfena leonina, Richards. Ichth. Chin. p. 216 (in Reeves's figure 



the orbital tentacles are well developed). 

 Scorpsena oxycephalus, Bleek. Sderop. p. 20, i^ Verh. Batav. Genootsch. 



xxii. Sclerop. p. 7. 



D. 11 1 ^. A. |. L. hit. 54-58. Yert. 8/16. 



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

 head 2|. Temple, operculum and suboporculum scaly. The length 

 of the snout is nearly one-third of that of the head, the width of the 

 space between the orbits about one-eighth. The space between the 

 orbits deeply concave, with tAVO ridges, which do not terminate in 

 spines; vertex with a very shallow groove, suiToimded by strong 

 spines ; a deep groove below the anterior angle of the orbit. The 

 third dorsal spine is the longest, one-third the length of the head, 

 and more feeble and rather shorter than the second of the anal. 

 Orbital tentacles none or small, those on the angle of the mouth well 

 dcve] oped. Eed , clouded with violet and sparingly dotted with black ; 

 the spinous dorsal sometimes with a black blotch. 



East Indian, Chinese, and Japanese Seas. 



a. Adult. China. Presented by J. R. Reeves, Esq. 

 h. Adult. China. Presented by J. R. Reeves, Esq. 



c. Adult. China. 



d. Half-grown. China. 



e. Half-grown : stuffed. China. Presented by J. R. Reeves, Esq. 

 /. Young. China. 



r/. Adult: stuffed. Japan. 



h. Adult. Amboyna. Piu'chased of Mr. Frank as Sc. oxyctplialus. 



i. Adult : skeleton. Purchased of JMr. Frank. 



h. Fine specimen. Raoul Island. Yoyage of the * Herald.* 



Skeleton. — It is very much like that of Scorpcena diaholus, but 

 is distinguished from it by the structiu-e of the principal frontal 

 bones, which, in this species, are narrow between the orbits and 

 deeply excavated. Each is provided with a narrow muciferous 

 channel, situated laterally to the ethmoid bone, which extends rather 

 far backwards between the frontal bones. Several bones of the skull 

 of Scorpcena diaholus are armed with clusters of small sjiincs, whilst 

 those bones in the present species bear only a single stronger spine 



