1840 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



a. Breast scaly. 



6. Occiput with a distinct quadrate pit. 



c. Supraocular tentacle less than twice diameter of orbit. 

 d. Dorsal rays XII, 9. 



e. Top of head scaleless, 3 small spines on suborbital carina. 



AGASSIZII, 2236. 



ee. Top of head not wholly scaleless, the interorbital space incompletely 

 scaled; suborbital carina with 6 spines. CRISTULATA, 2237. 



dd. Dorsal rays XII, 10. 



/. Anterior border of orbit with no distinct pit below it. 



g. Suborbital stay with 3 distinct spines; third anal spine 



longer and stronger than second. BRASILIENSIS, 2238. 



gg. Suborbital stay without spines; cheeks more or less scaly; 



second anal spine longer and stronger than third. 

 h. Pectorals 20, about 7 or 8 branched ; ventrals reaching 

 beyond rent ; nap above base of pectoral with contin- 

 uous edge. HISTKIO, 2239. 

 hh. Pectorals 19, about 10 branched; ventrals not reaching 

 beyond vent ; flap above base of pectoral much tat- 

 tered. PANNOSA, 2240. 

 /. Anterior border of eye with a distinct pit between it and sub- 

 orbital stay. 



i. Lateral line with about 50 scales; no dermal flaps except small 



ones along lateral line; supraorbital tentacles small; axil 



pale, mostly unspotted. GUTTATA, 2241. 



u. About 30 scales on lateral line, most of the scales with dermal 



flaps; supraorbital flap large, longer than eye; axil black, 



with large white spots. 



j. Color rather pale or reddish ; interorbital area narrow ; 



occipital pit deep. PLUMIEBI, 2242. 



jj. Color blackish; interorbital space broader and flatter; 



occipital pit broader and less deep. MYSTES, 2243. 



cc. Supraocular tentacle more than twice diameter of eye; flaps on lateral line 

 longer than eye ; suborbital stay with a small spine near its center, another 

 at its posterior end ; axil gray with many small white spots. 



GEANDICORNIS, 2244. 



bb. Occiput with only a very shallow depression or none. 

 k. Pectoral with 4 or more branched rays. 



I. Occiput with a very shallow but distinct depression ; suborbtial stay evi- 



dent, with several small spines. RUSSULA, 2245. 



II. Occiput with no depression, or only a slight crescentic notch ; suborbital 



stay very low, a minute spine at its posterior end. SONOR^E, 2246. 

 kk. Pectoral with but 2 branched rays; no pit at occiput. * INERMIS, 2247. 



223G. SCORPJENA AGASSIZII, Goode & Bean. 



Head about 2*; depth about 3; eye 2| in head. D. XII, 9: A. Ill, 5; P. 

 20; scales 5-47-11, 28 tubes in lateral line. Width of head about its 

 length ; interorbital space nearly 5 in head. Supraocular ridge elevated 

 above general profile, snout abruptly declivous and very short, less than 

 i length of eye. Maxilla reaching posterior margin of orbit, 2 in head; 



blotch on posterior half of spinous dorsal. Southern Europe; a specimen said to have 

 been sent toCuvier from New York by Milbert, a statement extremely doubtful. 

 kcorpcenaporcus, LINNJEUS, byst. Nat., Ed. x, 226, 1758, Mediterranean and ocean; after 

 ?nn m rl? n e ! nare *? f ABTBDI; CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. 



, OUU; VjrUJslHEB, l^at., II, 107. 



