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DIDACTYLE SCORPiENA. 



Scorpsena Didactyla. S. fusca, lituris- guttisque Jlavis variata, 

 digitis duobus distinctis ad pinna s pectorales. 



Brown Scorpaena, blotched and spotted with yellow, with two 

 distinct fingers or processes at the pectoral fins. 



Scorpaena didactyla. S. digitis duobus distinctis ad pinnas perfo- 

 rates. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel.p. I2\g. Pall. sp. zool. J. t. 4. 



General length about a foot : form extremely 

 grotesque : general colour dusky brown, varied 

 above by transverse yellow streaks, and beneath by 

 roundish spots of the same colour : skin destitute 

 of scales : head depressed, and furnished on dif- 

 ferent parts with several abrupt fleshy cirri : eyes 

 large, and situated on two approximated protuber- 

 ances : snout truncated, and marked on the sides 

 by several angular wrinkles, as are also the lower 

 parts of the gill-covers : lower jaw longer than the 

 upper: tongue prominent, and marked with yellow 

 granules and black streaks : on the lower mandible 

 are strong fleshy beards : lateral line near the 

 back: fins furnished with many far-projecting radii, 

 as in the volitans and antennata : pectoral fins 

 large, ovate, and barred with black ; tail of similar 

 form and colours ; the dorsal fin reaches from 

 head to tail, and the projecting rays are furnished 

 here and there with several small lacerated ap- 

 pendages : the ventral fin^, if they may be so called, 

 consist of two long, distinct, naked processes, placed 

 near e.ach of the pectoral fins : this curious species 



