FA.MILV TRIGLID.E SCORr.ENA. 50 



THE SPOTTED SEx\. SCORPION. 



PLATE I.XX. I'lC. 2ar. 



Ixfiscacio. Parka, Descripcion do dilVrentes, &c. p. 3'I, pi. 18, fig. 1. 

 Srorptcm hiifo. Cl'v et V'al. Hist, des Poiss. Vol. 4, p. 300. 

 The Sea Tvad. S.biijo. KiciiAuusoN, F^iun. Bor. Fi.slies, p. 300. 



Characteristics. Base of the pectorals beneath black, sprinkhxl with round milk-white spots. 

 Length .seven niches. 



Description. From thirty to thirty-three spines on the head and shoulders, viz. one on the 

 nasal bone ; five on the elevated margin of the orbit ; three in a row extending backwards 

 from the orbital ridge to the nape; five in a row parallel to the above, commencing close to 

 the orbit, passing over the temples, and ending on the shoulders, (the }H)stcrior part of this 

 row is doubled, adding two spines more ;) four divergent ones on the anterior suborbital ; 

 three on the ridge of the second suborbital, traversing the check obliquely ; six on the preo- 

 percle ; and two on the opercle, the last tips the humeral bone immediately al)ovc the pectoral. 

 Bands of teeth narrow on the jaws, vomer and palatines. Velvet teeth on tlie pharyngeals. 

 Nasal spine more or less denticulated. 



Color. Brown, marbled with rosaceous and violet. The dorsal, betw-ecn its sixth and 

 seventh rays, has a large black spot. 



Length, 7'0. 



Fin rays, D. 12.9; P. 19 or 20; Y. 1.5 ; A. 3.5 ; C. 13 f. 



This species has been observed from the Caribbean sea to Newfoundland, and of course 

 will be detected on our coast. I have not met with it, and have extracted the above from the 

 descriptions of Cuvier and Richardson. The figure, although indifi'crent, is the only one I 

 had access to, and is copied froni Parra. 



