36. GENYOBOGE. 175 



1. Myriodon walgiensis. 



Scorpaena waigiensio, Quoy^Gaim. Voy. Freyc. Zool. p. 324.pl. 58. f. 1. 

 Centropristes scorpsenoides, Cuv. 8f Val. iii. p. 48 ; Richards. Ann. &■ 



May. Nat. Hist. 1842, vol. ix. p. 120. 

 Myriodon scorpaenoides, Bris. de Barnev. Rev. Zool. 1847, p. 130 j 



Bleeker, Riouw. p. 480. 



^' tS- ^- 1- ^- ^^^- ^2. L. transv. 8/17. Vert. 9/16. 



The height of the body is one-third of the total length and equal 

 to the length of the head ; the diameter of the eye is one-third of 

 the latter. On each side between the two nasal openings a short 

 membranaceous appendage. Praeoperculum with three or four spi- 

 nous teeth beneath, directed forward ; operculum with a single spine. 

 Caudalis very slightly emarginate ; the second spine of the anal very 

 long and strong. Greyish, marbled with grey and i)rown. 



Riouw ; Waigiou ; Port Essington. 



a. Adult. Port Essington. Presented by J. Gould, Esq. 



b. Adult : injured. Port Essington. From the Haslar Collection. 

 e. Adult ; stiiffed. Port Essington. 



d. Young : dried. Freycinet's Harbour. Voyage of H.M.S. 



Herald. 



e. Half-grown. Australia. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 

 /. Adult : skeleton. Australia. From the Haslar Collection. 

 g. Adult. Purchased of Mr. Brandt. 



A good description of the skeleton is given by Sir J. Richardson, 

 I. c. p. 125. 



36. GENYOROGE*. 



Diacope, sp., Cuv. R^gneAnim. ; Cuv. 8f Val. ii. p. 410; Riipp. Atlas, 



p. 70. 

 Mesoprion, sp., Bleeker. 

 Genyoroge, Cantor, Catal. p. 12. 



Seven branchiostegals. Teeth villiform, with canines in both 

 jaws ; teeth on the palatine bones ; tongue smooth. One dorsal 

 with ten or eleven, rarely with more spines ; the anal fin with three. 

 Operculum with two or three points ; abbve the angle of praeoper- 

 culum a deep notch, as deep as broad, receiving a more or less 

 spinous knob of the interoperculum. Scales moderate. 



From the Red Sea through aU the seas of the Indian region ex- 

 tending into the Pacific. 



* 1 . Diacope duodecim-lineata, Cuv. ^ Val. vi. p. 529. — Isle de France. 



2. rufolineata, Cuv. 4" Val. vi. p. 531. — New Guinea. 



3. axillaris, Cuv. S[ Vol. vi. p. 532.— East Indies. 



4. flavipes, Cuv. ^ Val. vi. p. 534. — Vanicolo. 



6. analis, Cuv. %■ Val. vi. p. 534. — Isle de France. 



6. aurantiaca, Cuv. ^ Val. vi. p. 536. — Vanicolo. 



7. - — sanguirtea, Cuv. ^ Val. ii. p. 437. — Red Sea. 



8. vitianus, Hombr. ^ Jacq. Voy. au Pdle Sud, Poiss. p. 37. pi- 2. f. 2. 



— Polvnesia. 



