226 TRACHINID^. 



Si/no2:)sis of the Genera. 



Two dorsals. Scales very small 1 . Uranoscopu8. 



Two dorsals. Scales none 2. Agnus. 



One dorsal. Scales very small. Head cuirassed with bony 



plates 3. Anema. 



One dorsal. Scales none 4. Kattietostoma. 



One dorsal. Scales .small. Head covered with soft skin .. 5. Leptoscopus. 



1. URANOSCOPUS*. 



Uranoscopus (i.) sp., Cuv. Regne Anim. ; Cuv. 8f Val. iii. p. 285. 



Head large, broad, partly covered with bony plates ; body some- 

 what cylindrical ; cleft of the mouth vertical ; eye on the upper side 

 of the head. Scales very small. Two dorsals, the first with three 

 to five spines ; A^entrals jugular ; pectoral rays branched. Villiform 

 teeth in the jaws, on the vomer and the palatine bones, without 

 canines ; generally a filament below and before the tongue ; opercular 

 api>aratus generally' armed ; cavity of tlie gills with an opening 

 above the operculum as well as posteriorly. Pseudobranchia? ; six 

 branchiostegals. Air-bladder none ; pyloric appendages in moderate 

 number. 



East Indian Seas ; Polynesia ; one species from the Mediterranean. 



1. Uranoscopus scaber. 



KaXXtcoVu/xof, Arist. ii. c. 15, viii. c. 13; JEliioi. xiii. c. 4; Athcn. viii. 



f. 177. 

 OvpavoarKUTTo^, Athen. vii. f. 142, viii. f. 177. 

 "Ayvos, Athen. viii. f. 177. 

 Callionymus, Plin. xxxii. c. 7 &; 11; Gesner, pp. 1.35, 158; Wil- 



iKI/hhy, p. 287. 

 Uranoscopus, Plin. xxxii. c. 7 «fc 11 ; Galien. De usii part. iii. c. 3 ; 



Pondcl. X. c. 13; Salv. f. liKJi, 197 i, & 108; yl/drov. ii. c. 51; 



Gesner, pp. 135, 158 ; WiUxtjhhy, p. 287 ; Hay, p. 97. 

 Trachinus, sp. 2, Arfcdi, Griitni, p. 42. 

 Uranoscopus scaber, L. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 434 ; Briinn. Pise. Mass. n. 29 ; 



L. Gm. p. 1150; Bl. taf. 103; Bl. Schn. p. 40; Lacrp. ii. p. 349. 



pi. 11. f. 1; Pisso,Irhth.Niee,]). lOii, mid Eur. Merid. iii.p.2Gl; Dela 



Roche, Ann. 3fus. xiii. p. 315; 3fartens, Reise nach Venediy, ii. p. 430; 



Chv. Sf Val. iii. p. 287; Richardfi. lehth. Chin. p. 211 ; Nordm. in 



Deniid. Voy. Russ. Merid. Poiss. p. 371 ; Cttr.Rk/ne Anim. III. Poiss. 



pi. 17. f. 1. 

 Cfillionymus araneus, Gronor. Si/sL ed. Gray, p. 44. 

 Skeleton : Rosenth. Ichthyot. Taf. tab. 18. iig. 5. 



1). 4 I f^. A. 13-14. Caic. pylor. 1 1-12. Vert. 11/15 (10/13 Cnv.). 



Two dorsals. Scales very small. The length of the head is 3^ in 

 the total ; the distance between the gilUopenings equals that betwoen 

 the extremities of the occii)ital and turbinal bones. Humeral spine 



* Uranoscopus marmoratus, Cur. 4 Val. iii. p. 304. — East Indies. 



