176 REV. R. T. LOWE’S SYNOPSIS 
Of the five nearly equal preopercular spines, the uppermost but one is still 
decidedly the largest. In almost every point, indeed, the Maderan fish answers 
to the description above referred to in the Histoire Naturelle of MM. Cuvier 
and Valenciennes. A specimen examined had, however, seven cecal appendages ; 
and the number of vertebre is certainly only twenty-five in the Maderan fish ; 
whilst the remark at p. 339 of Cuvier and Valenciennes upon their Sebastes 
imperialis, ‘‘ Son squelette ressemble a celui de la sébaste du Nord, a l’exception 
des légers détails de la téte,” seems to intimate that the number of the vertebre in 
their fish, (Seb. imperialis,) was the same as in S. Norvegicus, namely thirty-one. 
Sebastes Kuhlii, nob.—-‘‘ Requeime.”” 
S. rostro subproducto, acuto: corpore subovali; dorso antice gibbo ; rubro, maculis 
olivaceo-flavis, capiteque strigis flavis picto : ore intus carneo ; guld superne maculd 
rubra: spinis preoperculi subquinis, inequalibus, abbreviatis: costd suborbitali in- 
e@quali, dentaté : spind solitarid in corpore supra basin pinnarum pectoralium ; harum 
radiis omnibus simplicibus. 
D.124+10;P.17;V.1+5;A.3+6;C. 16; M.B. 7; Vert. 24. 
Scorpena Kuhlii, Bowd., Exc. in Mad., p.123. Vulgaris. 
A very handsome, though extremely common fish: its usual size is about a foot 
long. 
Sebastes Maderensis, nob.—‘‘ Rocaz.” 
S. corpore oblongo, dorso antice gibbo, olivaceo-rubro, fasciis latis verticalibus fuscis : 
capite latissimo, magno ; rostro abbreviato, obtuso : ore guldque intus pallide carneis, 
immaculatis : spinis preoperculi marginalibus quatuor, rectis, parviusculis, subequa- 
libus : costd suborbitali inequali, valide spinosa : spinis duabus in corpore supra basin 
pinnarum pectoralium ; harum radio primo decemque ultimis simplicibus ; quatuor 
intermediis ramosis. 
D. 12410; P.15;V.1+5;4.346;C. 2+0; MB. 7. 
Scorpena Maderensis, Cuv. & Val. ix. 463. Vulgaris. 
A small pretty species, four or five inches long ; found very commonly in pools 
left by the tide amongst the rocks. 
Fam. Scir#2nipz. 
Pristipoma Bennettii, nob.—‘‘ Roncador,” “‘ Roqueirao,” or “‘ Salmao.” 
P. dorso pinnisque maculdque operculari olivaceo vel ereo-fuscis : lateribus chalybeis ; 
ventre argenteo : membrand branchiostegd operculoque intus aurantiis : caudd furcata. 
D.12+16;A.3+4 12v. 13; P. 17; V.145; C.¢poyaq; MB. 7; Vert. 26. 
Rarior. 
From eight to ten or twelve inches long. Except the spot above the angle of 
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