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as an organ of locomotion. The pectoral rays extend to tlie 

 ventral rays beyond the vent. The latter are as long as the 

 head without snout. 



Red, with a large black spot on the posterior half of the 

 spinous dorsal, and with another between the anal spines. 



Inland Sea. 



Sehastes oblongus. 

 Allied to S. inermis SLud. j>acht/cephalus. 



D. 12 I i^. A. I L. lat. ca. 65. 



The height of the body is contained thrice and a half 

 in the total length without caudal ; the length of the 

 head twice and three fifths. The scales are rather irregu- 

 larly arranged, and much smaller above than below the 

 lateral line ; on the upperside of the head they advance 

 to the nostrils, very minute ones covering even the pr?e- 

 orbital. The snout is pointed and much longer than the eye, 

 the diameter of which is one sixth of the length of the . 

 head, and equal to the width of the flat interorbital space. 

 None of the spines on the upperside of the head project ; and 

 those of the pra^ojierculum are obtuse and denticulated. The 

 teeth form broad villiform bands in the jaws as well as on 

 the vomer and palatine bones. The maxillary reaches to the 

 vertical from the hind margin of the eye. Dorsal spines 

 strong ; the fourth to the seventh are the longest, two fifths of 

 the length of the head. Anal spines stronger, but much 

 shorter than the longest of the dorsal. Brownish marbled 

 with darker ; lower parts and all the fins with brown spots ; an 

 oblique brown streak from the prseorbital towards the angle 

 of the pra^operculum. 

 Inland Sea. 



Scorpcena miostoma. 



Alliisd to Sc. zanziharensis and Sc. longicornis^ but with a 

 considerably narrower mouth. 



D. 11 I ^. A. I L. lat. 45. 



Palatine teeth ; the vomerine teeth form a simple open 

 V-shaped band. The height of the body is less than the 

 length of the head, which is contained twice and one third in 

 the total length without caudal. Head nearly entirely scale- 

 less. Upper jaw slightly overlapping the lower. Orbital 

 tentacles broad, fringed, shorter than the eye, which equals 

 the length of tlie snout. Interorbital space deeply concave, 

 with a ]}air of slight ridges within its concavity. Vertex with 



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