120 OCELLATED DRAGONET. 



mouth very wide : the mandibles thick at the edges, 

 the lower projecting beyond the upper : both are 

 internally beset with small curved hooks or teeth, 

 but the lower is smooth at the tip and subacute : 

 the gill-membrane is lax and furnished with very 

 remote cartilaginous rays : the pectoral fins are 

 lax and very long, equaling half the length of the 

 body, and have very slender stiff rays : the rays of 

 the second dorsal fin are also slender, and fifteen of 

 them are stiff: the tail is bilobate and stronger 

 than the fins : the lateral line is nearer the back 

 than the abdomen : the length of this species is 

 about a span : it is of a soft oily nature, and of a 

 slender and somewhat compressed shape, gradually 

 tapering from head to tail. 



OCELLATED DRAGONET. 



Callionymus Ocellatus. C. pinnce dorsalis priori* membrana 

 fasdolis fuscis et ocellis quatuor fuscis picta. Lin. Syst. Nat. 

 Gmel.p. 1154. Pall. spic. Zool. 8. p. 25. t. 4.f. 13. 



Dragonet with the membrane of the first dorsal fin marked 

 with dusky streaks and four dusky ocellate spots. 



A SMALL species, not exceeding the size of the 

 little finger : native of the Indian seas : colour 

 above a variegation of ash and brown, the ash- 

 coloured parts being marked by white specks : 

 beneath white: head smaller and sharper than in 



