7. GLYl'TAtJCHEN. 121 



at the same place. The coracoid terminates in two spines superiorly, 

 the spine of the scapulary bone being very indistinct. The pubic 

 bones are distinctly formed by three lamella?. 



Only eight vertehrcn can be considered as abdominal, the first inter- 

 hccmal spine being suspended on the ninth and tenth. The centra 

 of the second and third vertebra are much compressed in their lon- 

 gitudinal diameter ; the structure of the haemapophyses is the same 

 as in the other species. 



(Species the dentition of which is not known.) 



20. Scorpsena chilioprista. 



? Scorpsena rubro-punctata, Cuv. 8r Val. iv. p. 324. 



Scorpsena chiliopnsta, Riipp. N. W. Fische^ p. 107. taf. 27. f. 3. 



D.12|l A.|. ^ 



Operculum and praeoperculum scaly ; orbital tentacles moderate. 

 Keddish-brown, clouded with darker ; a broad lighter ring round 

 the tail. (Rilpj).) 

 Red Sea. 



^1. Scorpsena laniaria. 

 Cuv. 8r Val. iv. p. 324. 



D.ii. A. 4. 



The third spine of the praeorbital is directed outwards. No skinny 

 flaps. Dorsal nearly even. Reddish, largely marbled with black 

 and dotted with white. {Cuv.) 



Sea of Guam. 



7. GLYPTAUCHEN*. 

 Apistus, sp., Richards. Proc. Zool. Sac. 1850, p. 68. 



Head and body compressed ; crown of the head with a deep saddle- 

 like impression. Scales very small. Praeorbital, praeoperculum and 

 operculum armed. Dorsal fin continuous, the spinous portion much 

 more developed than the soft, with seventeen spines ; the anal with 

 three. No pectoral appendage. ViUiform teeth in the jaws, on the 

 vomer and the palatine bones. Seven branchiostegals. 



King George's Sound. 



1. Glyptauchen panduratus. 



Apistus panduratus, Richards. I. c. pi. 1. f. 3 & 4, and Ann, S( Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. 1851, vii. p. 274. 



D.f A.|. Y.1/5. 



The cleft of the mouth reaches to the vertical from the anterior 

 margin of the eye ; the seventh dorsal spine is the tallest ; the second 

 of the anal as long as the third, biit stouter ; the pectoral is very 

 large, and reaches nearly to the origin of the anal. (Rich.) 



King George's Sound. 



* From yXifipoj and ai>x>/v. 



