150 GoniiD.i:. 



panied by whitish dots ; anal blackish, with three scries of violet 

 ocelli ; base of the pectoral and ventral white-spotted. 



Female. — Anterior dorsal not elevated ; markings indistinct. 



Bourbon. Pondicherry. Madras. (Pacific.) 



a-h. Adult. Madras. Presented by T. C. Jcrdon, M.B. 

 c. Female. Pacific. Presented by Captain Sir E. Belcher, C.B. — 

 Type of C. lateralis. 



19. Callionymus ocellatus. 



Callionymus ocellatus, Pall. SpiciT. viii. p. 25. tab. 4. figs. 1-3 ; Walh. 



Arte'di, p. 608; L. Gin. i. p. lo41 ; Bl. Schn. p. 40; Cuv. if Val. xii. 



p. 308 ; Bleek. Amboina, vi. p. 422. 

 punctulatus, Lacep. ii. pp. 328, 340. 



D. 4 I 8. A. 7. C. 10. 



Gill-opening on the side of the neck, covered by the extremity of 

 the operculum, which is not produced. Prajopercular spine straight, 

 shorter than the eye, with two tooth-like processes superiorly ; none 

 at the base. 



Male. — The anterior dorsal is elevated. Head and body with 

 numerous small blue ocelli ; the spinous dorsal rose-coloured, with 

 two curved brown, blue-edged cross-bands infcriorlj', and with four 

 brown spots superiorly, black in the centre and edged with blue ; 

 soft dorsal with two brown longitudinal streaks, edged with blue 

 and black. Caudal with a brown cross-bar on the base, and pos- 

 teriorly spotted with brown and dotted with blue. Anal brown, with 

 two blue longitudinal stripes. 



Female ? 



Western parts of the East Indian Archipelago. 



20. Callionymus marraoratus. 



Callionymus mamioratus, Peters in Wicr/m. Arch. 1855, p. 255. 

 perelegans, Bianc. Spec. Zool. Moss. p. 2G3, Pise. fig. 9. 



B. 6. D. 4 I 8. A. 7. C. 13. 



Foramen branchiale on the side of the neck, but above the root of 

 the pectoral. The operculum is not produced. Pracopercular spine 

 somewhat bent inwards and upwards, with two tooth-like processes 

 superiorly ; none at the base. 



3Iale. — The anterior dorsal fin is elevated. Brownish, variegated 

 with darker and spotted with white ; a broad dark-brown cross-band 

 from the base of the first dorsal to that of the pectoral. Anterior 

 dorsal with numerous interrupted bluish transverse lines, the pos- 

 terior with series of small brown, white-edged spots ; pectoral and 

 caudal with transverse series. 



Female. — The anterior dorsal fin is not elevated. Brownish-olive, 

 marbled with darker, reticulated with white ; lower part of the sides 

 with pearl-coloured dots and stripes. The anterior dorsal fin is 

 brown, with concentric, interrupted bluish lines ; the posterior 



