45. TKIGLA. 201 



Trigla lastoviza, Brimn'. Pise. 3Iass. p. 99; Lacep. iii. pp. 340, 351. 

 adriatica, L. Gm. i. p. 1346 ; Bl. Schn. p. 15 ; Bisso, Ichth. Nice, 



p. 204, and Hist Nat. lii. p. 394 ; Martens, Beise tiach Venedig, ii. 



p. 430. tab. 11. 

 Duhamel, Peches, v. tab. 8, f. 6. 



D. 10-11 I 16-17. A. 16. L. lat. 65. Cffic. pylor. 10. Vert. 15/20. 



Scales very small ; those of the lateral line much larger, and with 

 a denticnlated keel ; the sides crossed by vertical folds of the skin. 

 The upper profile of the snout descends very abruptly, approaching 

 the vertical line, and is very slightly concuve. The space between 

 the eyes is deeply excavated, and two-thirds the diameter of the eye. 

 Prseorbital anteriorly obtuse, granulated. The first dorsal spine, and 

 sometimes the second and third, tubercular ; the second is equal to 

 the distance between the tip of the snout and the angle of the prse- 

 operculum. The pectoral reaches to the vertical from tlie seventh or 

 eighth anal ray. lied : head and body dotted with brown ; pectorals 

 with larger blue spots, forming cross-bands. 



Mediterranean ; western coasts of Europe. 



a. Adult: stuffed. Plymouth. Presented by Lieut.H. F. Spence,ll.N. 



6. Adult : skin. From Mr. YarreU's Collection. 



c, d. Adult : stuffed. 



e. Adult. Lisbon. 



/. Fine specimen. Lisbon. Presented by the Rev. R. T. Lowe. 



g. Half-grown. Madeira. Presented by the Rev. R. T. Lowe. 



h. Half-grown. Sicily. Presented by W. Swainson, Esq. 



i. Young : bad state. Sicily. Presented by W. Swainson, Esq. 



Jc. Adult. Dalmatia. 



I. Half-grown. Adriatic. From Mr. Frank's Collection, as Txigla 



aspera. 

 m. Half-growm. 



n. Half-grown. From Mr. Frank's Collection. 

 0. Young. 



p. Adult : skeleton. Madeira. Presented by the Zoological Society. 

 q. Adult : skeleton. 



The skeleton differs very little from that of Trigla pirn : the eth- 

 moid is three times as long as broad ; the praefrontals do not touch 

 each other, and are armed with prominent spines at the orbital mar- 

 gin. There are fifteen abdominal and twenty caudal vertebra?, the 

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

 the caudal as 1 : 1*5. 



3. Trigla hemisticta. 



Temm. ^ Schleg. Faun. Japan. Puiss. p. 3G. pi. 14. f. 3, 4, pi. 14. B. 



D. 7 I 11. A. 11. 



Scales very small, those of the lateral line a little larger, with a 

 feeble and roughened keel. The snout is moderately elongate ; the 

 interspace between the eyes is rather more than the width of the 

 orbit. Praiorbital produced into a long, flat, triangular spine. Prse- 



