156 MR. J. D. OGILBY ON FISHES [Mar. 19, 
bifid ; there is also an occipital ridge armed with three strong spines, 
and a temporal ridge with four, the last of which marks the 
commencement of the lateral line, and between these two rows there 
is a single small spine posteriorly ; beneath the infraorbital groove 
there is a spinate ridge terminating in the upper preopercular spine, 
and the clavicle bears a strong compressed spine pointing upwards 
and backwards. Teeth—both jaws are furnished with bands of 
villiform teeth, the inner row of which is much enlarged, especially 
on the mandible; there is an obtusely angular band of villiform teeth 
on the vomer, and a narrow band, reaching as far back as the angle 
of the mouth, on the palatines. Fins—the dorsal fin commences 
either opposite to or rather in front of the middle of the opercle ; its 
spines are acute and moderately strong, the fourth the longest, but 
little longer than the third and fifth, and from twice and one third to 
twice and four fifths in the length of the head; the dorsal rays are 
subequal in height to the spines, while those of the anal are much 
longer: the anal fin commences beneath the first dorsal ray and 
ends beneath the eighth; its second spine is much stronger and 
longer than the third, and is equal to, or not much shorter than, the 
longest dorsal sue The ventral fin is rounded, and reaches to, or 
a little beyond, the vent, and is five ninths of the length of the eit 
the pectoral fin is rounded, and reaches to beneath ‘the base of the 
last dorsal spine; the two upper simple rays are subequal and 
longest, from two thirds to four sevenths of the length of the head ; 
the caudal fin is slightly rounded, from two ninths to one fifth of 
the total length. ' 
The scales are of small size, and there is an elongate patch of 
rather smaller ones extending from between the two lower oper- 
cular spines to the tip of the flap’. The dateral line bends 
abruptly downwards from its origin to beneath the middle of the 
spinous dorsal, behind which the curve is very gradual. The 
colours are similar to those in the figure given by Dr. Giinther. 
In the ‘ Journal des Museum Godeffroy ’ (Bd. ii. p. 78, Taf. 55), 
Dr. Giinther describes as new and figures a species of Scorpena, 
under the name of S. cookii, from a British Museum example origin- 
ally brought from Racul Island, an outlymg rock in the Pacific 
belonging to the Kermadec Group; he mentions, however, that a 
fish obtained by Mr. Garrett from the Sandwich Islands is probably 
of the same species. During the month of September 1887, Messrs. 
Etheridge, Whitelegge, and Thorpe were sent by the Australian 
Museum, Sydney, to Lord Howe Island, where they spent three 
weeks, and, notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather during 
their stay, brought back, among other spoils, a small but valuable 
collection of fishes. Amongst these were eight specimens of a Scor- 
pena, which was distinguishable at a elance from the common Port 
Jackson forms, S. cruenta and S. cardinalis, and which I take to be 
Dr. Giinther’s species. Having therefore a good working series 
of specimens measuring from eight to over twelve inches in length, 
' Neither this patch of scales nor the anterior curvature of the lateral line is 
shown in Dr. Giinther’s otherwise excellent figure. 
