MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
emendation, is Synancia of Agassiz 1846, Swain 1883, and Regan 1913 ; to avoid 
confusion, I name Scorpcena horrida Linne the logotype of each of these. 
Another absolute synonym of Synanceja is Bujichthys Swainson, for which Swain 
selected the same logotype. 
Subgenus NOFUA nov. 
Bleeker, in his “ Revision des Especes Insulindiennes de la famille des 
Synaceoi'des,” regarded Synanceja horrida and S. verrucosa as congeneric because 
a new species from the Moluccas which he called Synanceia platyrhynchus 73 was 
intermediate in structural characters between the two species. However, I regard 
S. verrucosa as typical of Synanceichthys Bleeker, 7 * and propose the new name 
Nofua as a subgenus of Synanceja with S. plalyrhynchus Bleeker as orthotype. 
The key characters given by Bleeker will serve to define it. 
Synanceja horrida (Linne). 
“ Ikan Swangi Tonwa ” Renard, Poiss. Mol. i, 1718, pi. xxxix, fig. 155 (fide Gronow). 
“ Ikan Souangi Bezar” &c. Valentyn, Amboina iii, 1726, p. 399, fig. 170. Amboina. 
“ Perea, alepidota : dorso monopterygio,” &c., Gronow. Zoophylac. Gronov., 1763, p. 88, No. 292, 
pis. xi. xij, and xiii, fig. 1. Bengal. 
Scorpcena horrida Linne, Syst. Nat. ed. 12, 1766, p. 453, No. 3. Based on Gronow and Valentyn. 
Eastern India [—Bengal]. 
Scorpcena alepidota Bloch, Nat. ausl. Fische iii, 1787, p. 15 (fide Bleeker, 1874), pi. clxxxiii (horrida 
on plate). East Indies. 
Scorpcena horrida minor Mouschen, Ind. Zoophyl. Gronov., 1781, No. 292. [Bengal.] 
Scorpcena horrida Bonnaterre, Tabl. Encycl. Meth. Ichth., 1788, p. 69, pi. lxxxviii, fig. 369, copied 
from Bloch. (East Indies.) Id. Gmelin, Syst. Nat. (Linne), ed. 13, i, 3, 1789, p. 1217 
(India). 
Synanceja horrida Bloeh & Schneider, Syst. Ichth. 1801, p. 194 (Bengal). 
Scorpcena horrida Laoi'pcde, Hist. Nat. Poiss. ii, 1802, pi. xvii, fig. 2 ; ibid, iii, 1802, pp. 258 and 261. 
“ La Scorpene horrible ” Bose, Nouv Diet. d’Hist. Nat. xxx, 1819, p. 41 1, pi. P. 19, fig. 5 (Mer des 
Indes). 
Synanceia horrida Cloquet, Diet. Sei. Nat. li, 1827, p. 441. Id. Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. 
Poiss. iv, Nov. 1829, p. 440 (Java). 
Synanceia grossa Gray, Illustr. Indian Zool. i, March 1830, pi. xcvii. Singapore. Also 
spelt Symnacea grossa ; fide Sherborn, Index Anim. 
Bufichthys horrida and grossa Swainson, Nat. Hist. Classif. Fish. Amph. Rept. ii, July 1839, p. 268. 
Based on Lacep&de, 1802, and Gray, 1830. 
Synancidium horrhlurn Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. ii, 1860, p. 144 (not Australian specimens). 
Id. Day, Fish. India i, Aug. 1875, p. 162, pi. xxxix, fig. 3. 
Scorpcena, nionstrosa Gray, Cat. Fish. coll. Gronow Brit. Mus., 1854, p. 117. Ex Gronow MS. 
Equivalent, to Gronow, 1763. 
Valentyn gave early pictures of stonefishes, as the species of this genus 
are called, and his “ Ikan Sowangi Bezar” obviously represents a specimen of 
73 Bleeker, Natuurk. Verhand. Holl. Maatsch. Wetensch. (3) ii, 3, 1874, pp. 11 and 14, pi. i, 
fig. 2. 
74 Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. i, 1863, p. 234. Type, Synanceja verrucosa Bloch & 
Schneider. Not seen ; quoted from Weber & Beaufort and from Jordan. 
