102 riSKl.,3'. TJIORAC*Cf. Si./Trigla. 



83. M. Stirmulletus. Red, with 2 or 3 longitudinal yellow 

 stripes each side. 



Striped Surmullet. Br. Zool. t. 53. Donovan f, 12. 



Body about a foot long, a little silvery beneath : fcales silvery with 

 tawny lines: eyes round ; pupil blue, furrounded with a red ring ; 

 iris silvery: upper gill-cover ending in a foft blunt elongation: 

 lateral-line arched with the bark ; fns yellowish, with the rays 

 mostly red : lower-jaw with a beards : dorsal-fins 7, g-rayed ; pectoral 

 16; ventral 7 ; anal 8 ; ta?7 forked, 2o-raycd. 



24. TRIGLA. Gurnard. 



84. T. Gurnardus. Throat with 3 appeadages : above 

 grey with whitish and dusky spots, beneath silvery : 

 lateral-line clothed with rounded whitish scales. 



Grey Gurnard. Br. Zool. t. 54. Donovan t. 30. Shaw Zool. t. go. 



Body 1-3 feet long, covered with fmall white fcales: above the 

 eyes 2 short fpines each side: iris silvery: npje sloping, slightly 

 forked, with 3 short fpines each side : giU- r covers radiate, ending in 

 a point : vent nearer the head : rays of the fins longer than the 

 membrane; dorsal-fns 7, ig-rayed, the first grey fpotted with 

 white, the fecond reddish-ash ; pectoral dark-grey, lo-rayed ; ventral 

 whitish, 6; anal reddish-ash, 20; tail lunate, dark grey, 14- 

 rayed. 



85. T. Lyra. Throat with 3 appendages : red, beneath 

 silvery : nose 2-lobed, with 3 spines each side. 



Piper. Br. Zool. t. 55. 



Body about 2-feet long : upper-jaw much longer than the lower : 

 on the inner corner of each eye a strong fpine, the plates of the 

 head ending each side in another, and a large one over the pectoral- 

 fins: back ferrate with sharp fpines : dorfal-fns yellowish with red 

 rays, ic, i8-raycd ; pectoral slightly tinged with blue, i2-rayed; 

 ventral yellowish with red rays, 6-rayed with a fpine ; anal 18, the 

 first fpinous ; tail lunate, tinged with blue. 



SO. T. Cuculus. Throat with 3 appendages : red, beneath 

 silvery : first dorsal-fin with a black spot. 



Red Gurnard. Br. Zool. t. 57. Shaw Zool. t. 90. 



Body about a foot long, more or less marked with whitish tranf- 

 verfe bands, covered with minute fcales: noft with 3 fpines each 

 side : lateral-line with broad silvery fcales edged with black, and 

 another row each side the back : dorfal-fns 9, i6-rayed, the fecond 

 with a yellowish edge ; pectoral 10 ; ventral 6j anal 16; tail lu- 

 nate, i grayed. 



ST. T; Hirundo. Throat with 3 appendages : grey-brown, 

 beneath silvery : pectoral-fins very large, olive-green, 

 spotted and edged with rich blue, 



Sapphirine Gurnard. Br. Zool. t. 56. Donovan t. i. 



Body a foot or more long, tinged with red at the sides : lattrat-linf 

 rough : eyes with 2 fpines at the inner corner of each : nofe cloven, 

 fpinous: vent near the head: dorsal-fins with 9, 17 simple rays; 

 pectoral g branched rays; ventral 6, branched; anal 14, simple j tail . 

 brownish, slightly lunate, i6-rayed. 



88. T. lineata. Throat with 3 appendages : red, bencatk 

 white, with numerous ridges across the sides. 



Streaked Gurnard. Br. Zool. t. 57. Donovan t. 4. 



Body about a foot long : head large, fuddenly sloping, radiate on 

 the sides : nofe cloven, with short fpines : back ferrate ; lateral-line 

 plated :^fl.r with dusky fpots : dorsal 10, ly-raycd j fccttrai to; 

 * iiji*4 fcw'l slightly luate, ifi.raycd* 



