312 — Storer’s Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 
B.7. D. 12-9. P.19 or 20. V.1-5 A.3-5. C.13 or14, Length, 17 to 16 
inches. 
Newfoundland, Rrcwarpson. Gulf of Mexico, Parra. Caribbean Sea, Cuv. 
Rascacio, Parra, p. 34, pl. 18, fig. 1. 
La Scorpéne crapaud de Mer, Scorpzna bufo, Cuv. et Vau., rv. p. 306, 
Scorpena bufo, Sea-Toad, Ricw., Fauna Boreal. Americ., 1, p. 300. 
FE «Spotted Sea-Scorpion, Dexay’s Report, p. 59, pl. 70, fig. 227. 
3. Scorpena grandicornis, Cuy. 
Brownish, abdomen whitish. A brown spot at the base of the pectorals beneath, sprin- 
kled with small white spots. Very large acute spines upon the head. Large filaments re- 
sembling feathers are distributed upon different parts of the head, over the eyes, cheeks, and 
at the snout ; also upon the sides of the body. 
D. (?). P. (2). V. (2). A. (?)- ©. (?). Length, 4 to 6 inches. 
Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Cuv. 
La Scorpéne Plumier, Laceprpg, 111. p. 282. 
Scorpena Plumieri, Plumier’s Scorpena, Suaw’s Gen. Zool., 1v. p. 270. 
La Scorpéne & longs tentacules, Scorpena grandicornis, Cuv. et VAL, Iv. p. 309. 
4. Scorpena inermis, Cuv. 
Russet, marbled with deeper brown; beneath, paler; fins with irregularly distributed 
brown spots. Inconspicuous spines, and crests upon the head. THyes very large. Very 
small cirrhi upon the body. 
D.(?). P.(). V.(). A. (). ©.) Length, (2). 
Caribbean Sea, Cuv. 
La Scorpéne sans armes, Scorpena inermis, Cuv. et VaL., Iv. p. 311. 
GENUS X. SEBASTES, Cvv. 
Body oblong, compressed, covered with scales ; all the upper parts of the 
head also covered with scales ; eyes large ; preoperculum and operculum end- 
ing in three. or more spines ; branchiostegous rays, seven ; teeth small, nu- 
merous, equal in size, placed on both jaws, the vomer, and palatine bones ; 
a single dorsal fin, part spinous, part flexible ; inferior rays of the pectoral fin 
simple. 
1. Sebastes Norvegicus, Cuv. 
All the upper part of the body, and the fins, of a reddish color ; darker upon the head and 
back, lighter upon the sides ; nearly white beneath. A brown blotch upon the posterior por- 
tion of the operculum. 
