with blackish blotch. Anal largely blackish. Length 35 
to 55 mm, Four from Fiji. 
2635 
The original accountsof Scorpaena strongia Cuvier 
is very imperfect, though such characters as are given agree 
with our material. Lesson next mentions the sisvien 
though without much additional information. A little later 
Quoy and Gaimard figure the alg In lieu of no de- 
tailed account of the type it appears to us best to rely on 
this figure as far as it permits. In the text they give 
D. XII, 8 and A. III, 7. Their figure shows the following: 
about 40 rows of scales indicated along the lateral line, 
counting the last few apparently on caudal base; the maxile 
lary almost cy ouaiue until opposite hind eye edge; spinous 
dorsal askes with ¢ brown blotches, but without a black 
blotch, soft dorsal and caudal also with 2 brown cross-bands; 
anal with large brown blotch, likewise ventral; pectoral with 
4 brown cross-lines, 
B63, 
Hist.Nat.,Poiss.,vol.4,1829, p. 237 
264 
Voy Coquille, Zool.,vol.2,part 1,1830,p.213, 
P68 oe oS soi ea Rar gg 
Vay ,Astrolabe, Zool.,vol.3,k834,p.688,P1.11,fig.2,. 
