SYNOPSIS. 371 



"Sp. 77. O. aXbm. WTiite Goby. Dorsal fins remote, the 

 first with only five rays ; head large, gape wide ; body 

 transparent and marked with five depressed transversa 

 lines. Fin-rays, D. 5, 1 3 : P. 16 : V. 13 : A. 13 : C. 12.— 

 Pai-nell, Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin. xiv. 139; Yarr. BriU 

 Fish., i. 295. 

 Gen. XLV. Callionymus. Ventrals jugular, very large, dis- 

 tinct, and placed before the pectorals, which are smaller ; dor- 

 sals two, sometimes very high, particularly the first ; head 

 depressed, eyes approximating ; body without scales ; gill-open- 

 ing reduced to a small hole on each side of the nape ; bran- 

 «liiostegous rays six. 



Sp. 78. C. lyra. Gemmeous Dragonet. Head broad and 

 depressed, gape wide ; anterior ray of the first dorsal very 

 much elongated, reaching beyond the last ray of the second 

 dorsal ; second dorsal equal in the outline ; all the other 

 fins very ample, caudal rounded. Fin-rays, D. 4, 9 : 

 P. 20 : V. 5 : A. 9 : C. 10. Colour yellow, of various 

 shades, striped and spotted with sapphirine blue. — Linn., 

 Cuv.^ Val, xii. 266 ; Penn. Brit. Zool, iii. p. 221, pi. 31 ; 

 Don. Brit. Fish., pi. 9. 

 Sp. 79. C. dracuncidns. Sordid Dragonet. Head and body 

 more depressed that in C. lyi'a; rays of the first dorsal 

 shorter than those of the second ; colour reddish-brown, 

 dorsal fins pale brown, without spots, all the under side 



white Linn., Cuv. ^ Val., xii. 274 ; Penn. Brit. ZooLy 



' iii. p. 224, pi. 33 ; Dm,. Brit. Fi^h., pi. 84. 

 Fam. X. LojjhidcB. Head very larye-, pectorals elongated, 

 /arming a kind of arm; skeleton sendcartilaginous ; hody vAthout 

 scales. 



Gen, XLY. Lophius. Body diminishing rapidly from be- 

 hind the head, which is of enormous size ; ventrals before the 

 pectorals ; dorsal fins two ; branchial cavities large ; branchio- 

 stegous rays six. 



Sp. 80. L. piscatorius. Fishing Frog, or Angler. Mouth 

 nearly as wide as the head, lower jaw fringed round the 

 edge ; teeth numerous, sharp, and incurved ; head with. 



