476 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vouxxiv. 
12. URANOSCOPUS BICINCTUS Schlegel. 
MEGANE-UWO (SPECTACLE FISH). 
Uranoscopus bicinctus Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 1846, p. 26, pi. x B; 
Nagasaki. — Bleeker, Act. Soc. Nederl., II, Amboina, p. 411; Amboyna. — 
GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish., II, 1860, p. 228; Japan, China. — Nystrom, Sveusk. 
Vet. Akad., 1887, p. 28; Nagasaki.— Ishikawa, Prel. Cat, 1897, p. 46; 
Tokyo, Kagoshima. 
Head 3 in length; depth 3|; depth of caudal peduncle 3 J in head; 
eye 6; interorbital space -li; snout Ti; D. IV, 13; A. 13; scales in 
lateral series 56. 
This species differs from the preceding in having the plates of the 
head much more rough, the interorbital space and the depression in 
the bony plate wider, and in color. No dark reticulations are present 
except on upper part of head and nape, where they are few and much 
broken up; a broad, dark l)and passing around body through base of 
spinous dorsal, the band inky black on the sides, dusky below; a large 
black spot below posterior end of base of dorsal; a similar spot on 
cheek; spinous dorsal inky black; soft dorsal, caudal, and pectorals 
dark, the soft dorsal and caudal narrowly tipped with white, the pec- 
torals broadly edged with white; anal dusky, the tips of the rays white. 
Coasts of Japan and southward, not very common. We have a 
specimen about 250 millimeters long from Misaki and a smaller one 
from Wakanoura. 
(^^6', two; cinct'us, banded.) 
6. ICHTHYSCOPUS Swainson. 
IchiJuj.'^cojyus Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fish., etc., II, 1839, p. 269 {inermis). 
Body robust, covered with small scales which are regularly arranged 
in oblique cross series; head large, entirely mailed above; cheeks 
naked, preopercle unarmed, covered with soft skin, fringed behind; 
humeral projection fringed; lower jaw without dilatations below; no 
filament at the chin or in the mouth; dorsal tin single; the spinous 
dorsal obsolete. 
(ixOvg^ fish; (Xkottos^ gazer.) 
13. ICHTHYSCOPUS LEBECK (Schneider). 
Uranoscopus lebeck Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, p. 47; ( Tranquebar, on a draw- 
ing by LeBeck, sent by the missionary, John). 
Ichthyscojms lebeckii Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, p. 114; name only. 
Uranoscopus inermis CuviERand Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 1829, p. 310, 
pi. lxv; Coromandel, Malabar, Pondicherry. — Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, 
1846, p. 27, pi. xa; Nagasaki.— GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish., II, 1860, p. 230; Cey- 
lon, Madras. 
Head 2f in length; depth 2f ; depth of caudal peduncle 3^ in head; 
eye 8i; interorbital space 5; snout 8j; D. 19; A. 10; scales in lateral 
series about -±5. 
