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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 tar 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 spine. The ventral fin is rounded, and reaches to, or 

 a little beyond, the vent, and is five ninths of the length of the head ; 

 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 fitth 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 lateral 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 Scorpcena, 

 under the name of S. cookii, fi'om a British Museum example origin- 

 ally brought from Raoul Island, an outlying 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- 

 pa'na, which was distinguishable at a glance 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 tins patch of scales uor the anterior curvature of the lateral line is 

 shown iu Dr. Giinther's otherwise excellent figure. 



