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bh. Gnathagnimv. Humeral region without fringed appendage; opercle not fringed; 
chin with 8aber-sliaped dilatations of the rami of the mandible; no barbels. 
c. Body scaly; preopercle without prominence at the angle; dilatations of Liwer 
jaw sharp at upper end Gnalhagum, 7. 
cc. Body naked; preopercle with a blunt prominence; dilatations of lower jaw 
without sharp point Ariscopus, 8. 
S. URANOSCOPUS Linnseus. 
Uranoscopus Linx.eus, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1758 p. 250 {scabcr). 
This genus includes those Uranoscopidfe which have the head largely 
bony above, the body scah% the spinous dorsal developed, a humeral 
spine developed, and a retractile lilament in the mouth below the tongue. 
(ovpavog^ heaven; gkotto^^ looking.) 
o. Scales large, about 36 in lateral series; head and trunk with rosy spots above; 
preopercle with 4 spines oligolepi.?, 10. 
aa. Scales rather small, 55 to 65 in the lateral line; spinous dorsal black. 
h. Scales 64; head moderate; ground color of ))ody forming brownish reticulations 
around whitish spots jnponirvi^, 11 . 
bb. Scales 56; head very broad; body more robust; ground color forming about 
two dark brown cross shades or broad Ijands bicinctuf<, 12. 
lo. URANOSCOPUS OLIGOLEPIS Bleeker. 
Uranot^copus Hvaher Rich.^rdsox, Ichth. China, 1846, p. 211; Canton (not of Lin- 
nteus). 
Uranoscopus asper Schlegel, Verb. Bat. Gen., XXV, Japan, ]). 27; Nagasaki (not 
of Schlegel). 
Urauoscopus oUgolepls Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., p. 425, Trig., pi. v., fig. 7; Sumatra, 
Amboina, Nagasaki. 
Head 3; depth 3f ; D. V.- 13 or 14; A. 13 or 14: P. 16; scales 38. 
Body rather elongate, Ijroader than deep anteriorly; eye 5 to 6 in 
head, nearly as wide as interorbital space, no cirri at the chin; pre- 
opercle with 4 rough radiating spines; opercle granose; suprascapular 
spine oblique; upper humeral spine sulcate, twice diameter of eye. 
directed toward the middle of the spinous dorsal; dorsal fins near 
together, the soft rays much higher; caudal truncate-convex, not 
longer than head without snout. Color brownish rosy above, pearly 
or ros}' below, no dark spots or cross bands; fringes dusk}'; head and 
trunk above with irregular yellowish or rosy spots; spinous dorsal 
black, yellowish at tip; soft dorsal dusky, with darker shades; anal 
with a median pearly line. 
East Indies, Amboina, Straits of Sunda. One specimen in Bleeker's 
collection said to have come from eJapan. 
According to Bleeker the species differs from Uranoscojmsjaponicus 
{((Kjxr) not only in its scales, but also in the proportions of the height 
of the body, the length and breadth of the head, the number of pre- 
opercular spines, and the length and direction of the upper humeral 
spine. 
{oXij'og, few; Af;rJ=r, scale). 
