178 ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



male, as its height merely equals that of the body. Colours — gray, becoming 

 light beneath ; several oval, pearl coloured spots, some of which on the side of the 

 body, are surrounded by a dark ring. Fins light coloured, the dorsal with three 

 or four rows of round black spots encircled by a pearly ocellus. Three or four 

 vertical bands cross the pectoral fin : ventral dark in its outer half. Anal edged 

 with deep gray. Caudal dark in its posterior half. 



Hahits. — Probably much the same as those of the last species, but little is 

 known of them. 



Habitat. — Scandinavia and the coast of Denmark, while an example has been 

 dredged oif the Shetland Isles, and placed in the British Museum. It does not 

 appear to have been recorded on the Atlantic coast of France, but becomes more 

 common in the Mediterranean extending to the Adriatic. 



The example figured is the British specimen alluded to. 



