1 6 4 



GEMMEOUS DRAGONET. Class IV, 



S E c T. II. JUGULAR, 



x-\^ii. 



DRAGO- 

 NET. 



Upper lip doubled. 



Eyes near each other. 



Two breathing apertures on the hind part of the 



head. 

 Firfl rays of the dorfal fin very long. 



69. Gem ME- La tierce efpece de Exocetus ? 

 ous. Bi/cn, 21S. 



Dracunculus. Rondel. 304. 

 Dracunculus, aranei fpecies 



altera. Gefner pijc. 80. 

 Dragon fifh. Marten's Spiiz- 



berg, \zi. 

 YelJow Gurnard. Phil. Tranf. 



No. 293. 

 Lyra Harvicenfis. Pet. Gaz. 



Tab. 22. Dale Harv:ich, 



431- 



Callionymus Lyra. C. dor- 



ialis prioris radiis longitu- 



dine corporis. Lin.JyJi. 433. 



Faun. Suec. No. 110. 

 Uranofcopus. Grononj. Zooph. 



No. 206. 

 FIoy-fifl:e. Pontcp. Ncr^juay, 



II. m. 



Dracunculus marinus. Bcrlafe 

 Corn^vally 270. Seb. Muf, 

 in, 92. Tab. 50. f.g. 7. 



Name. J INN^EUS has given this genus the name of 

 -^^ Callionymus., a fifh mentioned by feveral of 

 the antients ; but the notices they have left of it 

 are fo very flight, as to render it difficult to deter- 

 mine what fpecies they intended. * Pliny makes it 

 a fynonym to the Uranofcopus^ a fifli frequent in the 

 Italian feas, but very different from our Dragonet^ a 



* Lib, XXXII. <:. II. 



name 



