150 ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



Habitat. — Two specimens, obtained in the East Indies, were presented to the Paris Museum by M. Bonare. 



Genus, 4 — Scoep^nopsis, Heckel. 

 Scorpcenichthys and Parascorpcena, Bleeker. 

 Differs from Scorpcena in having no palatine teeth. 

 Geographical distribution. — Tropical seas, also •with those of the last genus. 



SYNOPSIS OF SPECIES. 



1. Scorpcenopsis Guamensis, D. 12 | ■§-, P. 9+X, A. f , L. r. 43. No orbital tentacle. Scales over cheeks 

 and opercles. Brown, marbled with darker. East Indies to the Malay Archipelago. 



2. Scorpcenopsis cirrhosa, D. 11 | -J^-, P. 6-f-XII, A. f , L. r. 56. Orbital tentacle, if present, small. Head 

 scaleless. Pinkish brown marbled with darker. 



3. Scorpcenopsis oxycephala, D. 11 | ^, P. 6+XII, A. f, L. r. 46. Orbital tentacle well developed. Scales 

 on the upper portions of opercle and preopercle. Reddish brown, spotted and blotched with darker. Nicobars 

 to the Malay Archipelago and beyond. 



4. Scorpcenopsis rosea, D. 11 | Jg-, P. 6+XII, A. f , L. r. 43. An orbital tentacle. Scales on upper portion 

 of opercles. Reddish brown, marbled. Seas of India. 



5. Scorpcenopsis venosa, D. 11 | £, P. 6+XII, A. f , L. 1. 38. Apparently no orbital tentacle. Head scaleless. 

 Reddish brown blotched with darker. Seas of India. 



1. ScorpEenopsis Guamensis. 



Scorpcena Guamensis, Quoy and Gaim. Voy. Frey. Zool. p. 326. 



? Scorpcena polylepis, Bleeker, Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind. 1851, ii, p. 173. 



Sebastes polylepis, Giinther, Catal. ii, p. 106.* 



B. vii, D. 12 | i P. 9+X, V. 1/5, A. f, C. 13, L. r. 43. 



Length of head 1/3, of caudal 1/5, height of body 2/7 of the total length. Eyes — diameter 2/7 of length 

 of head, 1 diameter from end of snout, and 3/4 of a diameter apart. Interorbital space concave. No groove 

 beneath the eyes. Supraorbital edge spinate. No orbital tentacle. The maxilla reaches to below the middle 

 of the eye. Spines on head acute. Teeth — villiform in jaws and on the vomer. Fins— highest dorsal spines 

 equal half of the height of the body. Scales — present on cheeks and opercles. Colours — brown marbled with 

 darker. 



Habitat. — Malay Archipelago, and said to have been brought from the East Indies. 



2. Scorpsenopsis cirrhosa.t 



Perca cirrhosa, Thunb. Nya Handl. Stockh. xiv, 1793, p. 199, pi. 7, fig. 2. 



Scorpcena cirrhosa, Cuv. and Val. iv, p. 318 ; Giinther, Catal. ii, p. 120 ; Klunz. Verh. z. b. Ges. Wien, 

 1870, p. 801. 



Scorpcena neglecta, Temm. and Schleg. p. 42, pi. 17, fig. 2, 3; Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. xxvi, p. 79. 



Scorpcena barbata, Riipp. N. W. Fische, p. 105, t. 27, fig. 1. 



B. vii, D. 11 1 T V, P. 6+XII, V. 1/5, A. 1, C. 13, L. r. 56. 



Length of head 1/3, of caudal 1/6, height of body 3/10 of the total length. Eyes — diameter 1/5 of length 

 of head, 1| diameters from end of snout, and 2/3 of a diameter apart. Interorbital space deeply concave, with 

 two low ridges along its whole extent which do not end in spines : a deep groove below the anterior edge of 

 the orbit : a shallow groove over occiput : occipital and temporal ridges strongly spinate. Two strong spines 

 along the upper edge of the orbit. Sometimes an orbital tentacle of small size, which is however mostly absent. 

 A spinate ridge from the preorbital across the cheeks, preopercle spinate : opercle with two spines. Tentacles — 

 besides the orbital one, there are many more about the head and a very large one above the angle of the mouth : 

 there are also some on the body. Teeth — in jaws and vomer, none on the palate. Ems — dorsal spines increase 

 hi length to the fourth, which is half as high as the body, and usually shorter than the second of the anal, 

 which equals half the length of the head : ventral reaches the anus : caudal cut nearly square. Scales — none 

 on the head. Colours — Pinkish brown marbled with darker : fins spotted and blotched. 



Habitat. — West coast of Africa, seas of India to Malay Archipelago and beyond. 



3. Scorpsenopsis oxycephala, Plate XXXVI, fig. 3. 



Scorpcena oxycephalus, Bleeker, Sclerop. p. 20, and Verh. Bat. Gen. xxii, Sclerop. p. 7 ; Kner, Novara 

 Fische, p. 116. 



Scorpcena cirrhosa, Giinther, Catal. ii, p. 120 (in part). 



Scorpcenopsis oxycephala, Sauvage, Nov. Arch. Mus. t. ix, p. 52, pi. 6, fig. 3 and 3a. 



B. vii, D. 11 | J^ P. 6+XII, V. 1/5, A. 1, C. 13, L. r. |f, L. tr. 7/22. 



* Specimens marked Sebastes polylepis, B. M. Catal ii, p. 107, belong to this species, under which des ; gnation they are now 

 placed. 



t The specimen of Scorpcena polyprion, B. M. Catal. ii, p. 115, recorded as " d. Half grown, Ceylon, presented by Captain 

 Gascoigne," appears to belong to this species. 



