118 INDIAN DRAGONET. 



and almost contiguous: mouth small; teeth very 

 minute : over the gills a strong, trifurcated, broad 

 spine: the first dorsal fin had four rays; the first 

 setaceous, extending a little higher than the others; 

 the last very short : the two first rays and webs 

 yellow, the others black : the second had ten soft 

 rays, their ends extending beyond the webs, which 

 were pellucid : the pectoral fins consisted of twenty 

 rays, and were ferruginous, spotted with a deeper 

 cast of the same : the ventral fins consisted of five 

 broad and much-branched rays, like those of the 

 first species : the anal fin was white, and had ten 

 rays : the tail had ten rays : in both species they 

 are bifurcated at their ends, and the ray next the 

 anal fin is in both very short. In colour this 

 species is far inferior to. the former, being of a dirty 

 yellow, mixed with w^hite and dusky spots: the 

 belly is entirely white/' This fish, like the preced- 

 ing, is a native of the Mediterranean and Northern 

 seas : both are numbered among edible fishes, and 

 are supposed to live principally on worms and sea- 

 ijisects. 



INDIAN DRAGONET. 



Callionymus Indicus. C. capite Icevi longitudinalifer rugoso, 

 operculis latere aperiendis. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 434. 



Dragonet with smooth head longitudinally wrinkled, and gill-? 

 covers opening at the sides. 



THIS species is a native of the Asiatic seas, and 

 is described by Linnaeus as having the head de* 



