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all the spines are rather feeble." T do not find that Cuvier 

 noticed long spines either above the orbit or on the back ; he 

 wrote of those l)ehiii(l the pectoral and on the Hanks. In the 

 "Thetis" specimen the only spines which are strikinj^ly enlarf^ed 

 are a pair behind the root of each pectoral and ancjther on the 

 caudal pedicel. So subequal are the dorsal spines that no 

 particular one can be selected as that referred to. While all 

 other spines are immovable, the post pectoral is capable of some 

 degree of erection ; when adpressed the pectoral fails to conceal 

 the point of the spine, but it does not in any way approach the 

 development illustrated by Cuvier. All other spines are very 

 short, and nowhere does the tip of one reach to the liase of that 

 behind it, so that no overlapping occurs. 



Castelnau's specimen was imperfect, and he described the anal 

 fin as being much smaller than the dorsal : this is incorrect, and 

 the complete radial formula is as follows : — 



D. 16. A. 15. P. 20. C. 8. 



Colour dark brown above, each spine on the body set in 

 an ill-defined black blotch ; underneath parts white without spots; 

 from the dark dorsal portion and passing into the white beneath 

 are three black vertical bars, one in front and another behind 

 the pectoral, and a third below the origin of the dorsal. No 

 darker mark below the eye. 



Cuvier's figure, although indicating the peculiarities of the 

 species, is somewhat crude ; yet as our example is perhaps scarcely 

 typical, I hesitate to illustrate it. 



Family SCORP^NID^. 



SCORP^NA (Arfedi), Linnceus. 



SC0RPu5:NA CRUENTA (Solander), Richardson. 

 Red Rock-cob. 



Scorpcena cruenta. Rich., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (1), ix., 1842, 



p. 217. 

 Scorpcdna militaris, Rich., Voy. Ei'eb. & Terr., Fish., 1846, p. 22, 



pi. xiv., figs. 1, 2. 



Station 55. 



The only occasion on which this fish was netted, the trawl 

 encountered rock, and brought up two large basalt boulders, from 

 which a wealth of invertebrate life was taken. Wherever lines 

 were put over on the various Schnapper-grounds, the species was 

 taken, its capacious mouth receiving the largest bait, 



