SCORPvENID^E. 55 



Synopsis of Indian Species. 



L. tr. 0/22. An orbital tentacle 1. 8. bleekeri, p. 55. 



L. tr. 9/19. No orbital tentacle 2. S. armata, p. 55. 



795. (1.) Scorpama bleekeri. (Fig. 21.) 



Scorpsena haplodactylus, Dai/, Fish, India, p. 149, pi. xxxvi, fig. 2 



(not Sleeker}. 

 Scorppena bleekeri, Day, Fish. India, p. 747. 



D. 11 | 1/9. P. 5 + xii. A. 3/5. C. 15. L. 1. 26. L. r. 44/42. L. tr. 6/22. 

 Length of head 3, height of body 3j in the total length. Eyes 

 diameter 4 in length of head, lj diam. from end of snout, and 

 | apart. Interorbital space deeply concave, no groove below eyes. 

 Two spines on the posterior upper edge of the orbit, the hinder 

 furnished with a tentacle. Occipital, temporal, and suborbital ridges 

 armed with spines ; a strong turbinal spine : three strong spines on 

 vertical limb of peropercle and two blunt ones along its horizontal 

 border ; two strong opercular spines. Several fleshy tentacles about 

 the head. A strong spine above the base of the pectoral fin on the 



Fig. 21. Scorp<sna 



shoulder-girdle. Fins dorsal spines increase in length to 4th, 

 from it they decrease in length to llth ; 12th spine twice as high 

 as ]lth ; soft dorsal slightly higher than the spinous ; second anal 

 spine the strongest and longest ; caudal rounded. A few fleshy 

 tentacles along the lateral line. Colour brownish black, banded 

 and marbled with darker: anal having a broad band along its basal 

 half ; one vertical band at base of caudal, another along its middle, 

 and a dark margin edged with white ; dorsal with brown marks. 

 Jfab. Anclaniaus. 



796. (2.) Scorpaena armata. 



Scorppena armata, Sauvaye, Nouv. Arch, du Museum, ix, 1873, Bull. 

 p. 49, pi. G, fig. 1 ; Day, Fish. India, p. 149. 



D. 11 | 1/9. P. 6 + xii. A. 3/5. C. 13. L. 1. 35. L. tr. 9/19. 



Length of head 2 1 ? height of body 3 in the total length. A/// ; .s- - 



diameter 4 in length of head, 1| diam. from end of snout, and | 



