126 TRIGLID^. 



and body ; pectoral blackish, with whitish spots on the rays, and 

 the inner surface black, dotted all over with white. The rays of 

 the vertical fins si)otted with black. 

 Red Sea ; Indian Ocean. 



7. Pterois zebra. 

 Menard, i. pi. G. f. 41. 

 Pterois zebra, Ciw. S;- Val. iv. p. 367 ; Rcgne Anim. El. Poiss. pi. 24. 



f. 1 (not good) ; Blcvk. Amb. ^- Cei: p. 265 ; Quoy ^ Gaim. Voi/. 



Uran. Zool. p. 329, and Voy. Astral. Poiss. p. 692. pi. 11. f. 6. 



D. 12J3^. A.|. L.lat. 48-50. Cfec. pylor. 3. Vert. 10/14. 



Nape of the neck scaly ; the space between the eyes is very con- 

 cave, and its width much less than the diameter of the eye, which 

 is 1 1 in the length of the snout. The upper and middle rays of the 

 pectoral not, or slightly, detached from one another, and the fin does 

 not reach to the caudal. The upper margin of the orbit ■\\dth spines 

 on the anterior and posterior angles only. Hed : body with about 

 six brown cross-bands, another across the opercles ; cheeks spotted 

 with brown. All the rays of the vertical fins black-spotted ; pectorals 

 with semilunar blackish spots between the rays. 



Indian Ocean and Archipelago. 



a. Adult. Ambojma. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



h. Half-grown. Amboyna. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



c. Half-grown. Amboyna. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



d. Half-grown : skeleton. Amboj-na. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



e. Young. Amboyna, Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



f,g. Half-grown. China. Presented by Capt. Sir E. Belcher. 



h. Adult. From the Haslar Collection. 



?". Adult. Madagascar. Presented by Dr. J. E. Gray. 



l\ Young. Purchased of !Mr. Jamrach. 



The skeleton of this species is exceedingly similar to that of Pt. 

 antennata, and there is no difference in the bones of the skull, except 

 in the infraorbital ridge being armed with a single series of spines. 

 There are ten abdominal and fourteen caudal vertebra;, the length 

 of the former portion of the vertebral column being to that of the 

 latter as 1:1-4. 



8. Pterois brachjrptera. 



? Scoi-pc-ena koenigii, Bl. NijaHandl Stochh. x. 1789, p. 235. tab. 7. f. 2. 

 Pterois brachyptera, Cuv. '^ Val. i\. p. 368 ; JBleek. Amb. ^ Car. p. 265. 



D. 12 1 1. A. \. L. lat. 45. 



Nape of the neck scaly ; the space between the eyes is very concave, 

 and its width much less than the diameter of the eye, which nearly 

 equals the extent of the snout. The upper and middle rays of the 

 pectoral not, or slightly, detached from one another, and the fin does 

 not reach to the caudal. The entire upper margin of the orbit 



