SCORP^NIDJE. 
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fig. 21 b. The extended low supraoccipitai spine is seen 
behind, and the supraoccipitai (s,occ.) is observed to extend 
forwards between the hinder ends of the frontals (fr.). 
The incomplete W formed by the postorbital frontal ridges 
(2, 3) is distinct ; and the small supraorbital prominence 
(4) is seen on the left side. Enniskillen Coll. 
P. 1698, P. 1759. Three imperfect specimens. Egerton Coll. 
38912. Portion of skull and greater part of vertebral column. The 
hinder abdominal vertebrae bear large, laminar, down¬ 
wardly-directed transverse processes. Bowerhank Coll. 
The following supposed extinct species of this family, not repre¬ 
sented in the Collection, have been referred to existing genera:— 
ScorpcBna minima, D. G. Kramberger, Beitr. Palaont. Oesterr.- 
Ungarns, vol. ii. (1882), p. 110, pi. xxii. fig. 2.—Upper 
Miocene ; Dolje, Croatia. [Imperfect fish ; Geological 
Museum, University of Agram.] 
^ Scorjocena jpilari, I). G. Kramberger, loc. cit. 1882, p. 109, pi. xxii. 
fig. 1.—Upper Miocene ; Kadoboj, Croatia. [Imperfect 
Geological Survey, Tieana.] 
poena, prior, I. J. Heckel, Denkschr. k. Akad. Wiss., math.- 
naturw. Cl. vol. xix. (1861), pt. i. p. 72, pi. x. fig. 10.— 
Middle Miocene (Leithakalk); Vienna. [Imperfect fish ; 
Court Museum, Vienna.] 
Scorpcena tessieri, H. E. Sauvage, Ann. Sci. Geol. vol. iv. (1873), 
art. no. 1, p. 114, fig. 69.—Upper Miocene ; Oran, Algeria. 
[Imperfect fish ; Paris Museum of Natural History.] 
Sebastodes (?) rosoe, C. H. Eigenmann, Zoe, vol. i. (1890), p. 16, 
with fig.—Tertiary ; Port Harford, California. [Pre- 
j. . ^erculumj « .’-o 
The following extinct genera and species, which are not repre- / .. n 
sented in the Collection, are supposed to be related to Scorpcena 
Ctenopoma jemelka, I. J. Heckel, Denkschr. k. Akad. Wiss., math.- 
i 3, 
7 /_ 
naturw. Cl. vol. xi. (1856), pt. i. p. 272, pi. xv. figs. 6-9. 
Pygoeus jemelka, J. J. Heckel, Neues Jahrb. 1849, p. 500 
(name only).—Middle Miocene ; near Oedenburg, Vienna. 
- [The type species. Imperfect fish; olim Jemelka Coll., 
^,1^’ Histiocephalus bassanii, A. de Zigno, Mem. H. Istit. Venetn, 
vol. xxiii. (1887), p. 31, fig. 9.—Upper Eocene; Monte 
