1.30 OSBECKIAN WEEVER. 



considered as not generically distinct from the Ura- 

 noscopus. Its English name Weewer seems, as Mr. 

 Pennant observes, to be a corruption from the 

 French title la Vive. 



OSBECKIAN WEEVER. 



Trachinus Osbeckii. T. albus, nigro maculatus, maxillis 



cequalibus. 

 White Weever, spotted with black, with both jaws of equal 



length. 

 La Trachine Osbeck. Cepedepisc. 1. p. 364. 



NATIVE of the Atlantic seas, and found about the 

 Isle of Ascension, &c. Colour white, spotted with 

 black : both jaws of equal length, and furnished 

 with several rows of long and pointed teeth, three 

 of which, both above and below, are larger than the 

 rest : some sharp teeth are also situated in the 

 throat : each gill-cover is terminated by two spines 

 of unequal length : tail even. Described by Osbeck 

 in his voyage to China. 



