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DIDACTYLE SCORP^SNA. 



Scorpaena Didactyla. S. fusca,Jituris guttisque Jlavis variata, 



digitis duobus distinctis ad pinnos pectorales. 

 Brown Scorpsena, blotched and spotted with yellow, with two 



distinct fingers or processes at the pectoral fins. 

 Scorpaena didactyla. S. digitis duobus distinctis ad pinnas pecto- 



rales. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel.p. 12 It). Pall. sp. zool. 7. t. 4. 



GENERAL length about a foot : form extremely 

 grotesque : general colour dusky brown, varied 

 above by transverse yellow streaks, and beneath by 

 roundish spots of the same colour : skin destitute 

 of scales : head depressed, and furnished on dif- 

 ferent parts with several abrupt fleshy cirri : eyes 

 large, and situated on two approximated protuber- 

 ances : snout truncated, and marked on the sides 

 by several angular wrinkles, as are also the lower 

 parts of the gill-covers : lower jaw longer than the 

 upper : tongue prominent, and marked with yellow 

 granules and black streaks : on the lower mandible 

 are strong fleshy beards : lateral line near the 

 back: fins furnished with many far-projecting radii, 

 as in the wlitans and antennata : pectoral fins 

 large, ovate, and barred with black , tail of similar 

 form and colours ; the dorsal fin reaches from 

 head to tail, and the projecting rays are furnished 

 here and there with several small lacerated ap- 

 pendages : the ventral fins, if they may be so called, 

 consist of two long, distinct, naked processes, placed 

 near each of the pectoral fins : this curious species 



