90 DR. RICHARDSON'S DESCRIPTION OF AUSTRALIAN FISH. 



pyloric branch is mucli smaller and more contracted at its origin, below which it dilates 

 to a globular form and then contracts again to form the pylorus. The ' cul de sac' 

 beneath the origin of the branch forms half the stomach. The gut is delicate, and de- 

 creases in diameter as it recedes from the pylorus ; it contained marine insects. There 

 are eight pyloric caeca, more slender and proportionably shorter than in T. vanessa. 



Dimensions. 



Inches. Lines. 



Length from tip of preorbitar spine to tip of caudal .... 5 4 



Length from end of snout to base of caudal 4 



Length from end of snout to anus 2 3 



Length from end of snout to first dorsal spine 1 7| 



Length from end of snout to occiput 1 3^ 



Length from end of snout to apex of gill-cover (upper angle) . . 1 5 



Length from end of snout to anterior margin of orbit .... 7 



Greatest depth of body 1 10 



Length of pectorals 2 



Length of ventrals 1 1 



Length of attachment of second dorsal Oil 



Length of attachment of anal 1 2 



Length of third spine of dorsal 9 



Length of caudal 1 2 



Length of descending branch of stomach from gullet .... 1 1 



Length of gut from pylorus to anus 3 3 



Width of occiput 7 3 



ScoRPiENA MiLiTARis (Nob.), Soldier-fish. 



Scorp. capite breviusculo, cirrhis nullis?, spinis capitis fere Scorp. porci vel bufonis, 



operculo summo genisque squamosis ; squamis corporis ciliatis ; colore carmesino. 

 Radii.— Br. 7-7 ; P. 16 ; D. 12|10 ; A. 3|.5 ; V. 1|5 ; C. 12|. 



In the ' Histoire des Poissons ' we find the following remark : — " The ScorptencB, pro- 

 perly so called, have the head bristled with crests and spines, and enveloped in a spongy 

 skin : it is with difiiculty that one can discover in dried specimens some small scales 

 on the hinder part of the head and upper margin of the operculum." In specimens, 

 however, of what I have considered to be the Scorpcena bufo ' (Cuv.) (because they 

 have the milk-white spots in the axillae, and agree otherwise in the most minute parti- 

 culars with the description of the species contained in the work just quoted), the whole 



' Vide Fauna Bor. Amer. Fishes, p. 300, for detailed descriptions of Newfoundland specimens. I have a 

 specimen of the same fish from Jamaica with the denticulated nasal spines, which are characteristic of bii/o. 



